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Reviews: ‘Robert Oppenheimer’ by Ray Monk and ‘An Atomic Love Story’ by Shirley Streshinsky and Patricia Klaus

May 9, 2019 at 4:09 p.m.

Robert Oppenheimer, the so-called father of the atomic bomb and one of the most brilliant physicists never to have won a Nobel Prize, has inspired legions of biographers and memoirists....

Reviews: ‘Robert Oppenheimer’ by Ray Monk and ‘An Atomic Love Story’ by Shirley Streshinsky and Patricia Klaus

September 8, 2018 at 10:39 a.m.

Robert Oppenheimer, the so-called father of the atomic bomb and one of the most brilliant physicists never to have won a Nobel Prize, has inspired legions of biographers and memoirists....

Review: ‘The Book of Jezebel’ edited by Anna Holmes

May 9, 2019 at 4:07 p.m.

Alternately snarky and serious, "The Book of Jezebel" is a highly idiosyncratic, third-wave feminist take on gender, pop culture, politics, literary history and assorted other topics. Assembled by the founder...

A woman in civilian clothes is trained in the use of a panzerfaust anti-tank rocket launcher, Germany, 1945.

Review: ‘Hitler’s Furies’ by Wendy Lower

May 9, 2019 at 4:04 p.m.

Under Nazi ideology, German women were supposed to be prodigies of child-bearing and domesticity, leaving the wider world of work — not to mention violence and mass murder — to...

Review: ‘An American Bride in Kabul’ by Phyllis Chesler

May 9, 2019 at 4:03 p.m.

Imagine marrying the man you adore, only to find yourself locked away in an Afghan harem, where your sweetheart alternately ignores, insults, hits and sexually assaults you. Then imagine that...

Israeli author Amos Oz attends the Leipzig book fair on March 14, 2013 in Leipzig, Germany.

Review: ‘Between Friends’ by Amos Oz

May 9, 2019 at 4:02 p.m.

A commune is not a place where one is supposed to be alone. So there is both poignancy and irony in the notion of a kibbutz as a collection of...

Review: ‘The Manor’ by Mac Griswold

May 9, 2019 at 3:56 p.m.

"The Manor," Mac Griswold's meticulous scholarly history of an estate and a family, begins with an eerie discovery. As Griswold is boating around Shelter Island, near the eastern tip of...

Review: ‘The Rest of Us’ by Jessica Lott

May 9, 2019 at 3:54 p.m.

Some memoirs are so skillfully wrought that they read like novels. This debut novel by Jessica Lott is so vividly infused with life that it reads like a memoir. Without...

Psychiatry ‘bible’ gets two doses of criticism

May 9, 2019 at 3:52 p.m.

In his 1993 classic, "Listening to Prozac," Peter D. Kramer discusses how psychotropic drugs affect the art and science of psychiatric diagnosis. The successful use of lithium to treat manic...

Review: “The Unwinding” by George Packer

May 9, 2019 at 3:50 p.m.

The New America of George Packer's ambitious history, "The Unwinding," is a morally compromised patchwork of failed institutions, Ponzi schemes, bankruptcies, foreclosures, ignorance and fear. But it is also a...

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