The New York Times Book Review - USA (2020-08-09)

89B1 SIN CITY When Hot Springs, Ark., was the South’s capital of vice PESTILENCE Camus and ‘The Plague’ as a defense against hat ...

2 SUNDAY, AUGUST 9, 2020 Now it’s Edward’s turn. AUDIOBOOKS ALSO AVAILABLE MidnightSun | TheTwilightSaga.com Celebrate 15 years ...

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4 SUNDAY, AUGUST 9, 2020 YES, I CAN SAY THAT: WHEN THEY COME FOR THE COMEDI- ANS, WE ARE ALL IN TROUBLE, by Judy Gold, read by t ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 5 that it was Peter Hoeg’s “Smilla’s Sense of Snow” that first sparked an American fascination wi ...

6 SUNDAY, AUGUST 9, 2020 What books are on your nightstand? J.M.G. Le Clézio’s “The Prospector,” Christopher Beha’s “The Index o ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 7 WE REACH FOR ROMANCEwhen illness strikes, when the world weighs too heavily, when our own joy i ...

8 SUNDAY, AUGUST 9, 2020 “THE ONLY RULEin Hot Springs,” Virginia Clinton Kelley once wrote, “was to enjoy yourself.” Kelley rais ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 9 CAN A PERSONwith a tattoo have a soul? To judge from a broad swath of contemporary fiction, the ...

10 SUNDAY, AUGUST 9, 2020 EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGSbelonged to the generation of modernists — Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Willi ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 11 THE THESIS OFBjorn Lomborg’s “False Alarm” is simple and simplistic: Activists have been sound ...

12 SUNDAY, AUGUST 9, 2020 WHEN CHRISTINE MONTROSSapproached the end of her residency program in psy- chiatry, she met with a men ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 13 TOWARD THE ENDof January, I began to notice a strange echo between my work and the news. A mys ...

14 SUNDAY, AUGUST 9, 2020 BY NOW,most readers have surely heard of the science of disease modeling or the “R- naught,” the mathe ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 15 IN APRIL 2003,after he had launched the in- vasion of Iraq, George W. Bush stood in the Oval O ...

16 SUNDAY, AUGUST 9, 2020 W. E. B. Du Bois, more than a century ago, termed “the problem of the color line” re- mains a troublin ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 17 WE LIVE INa confessional age. We prize vulnerability, living out loud and truth telling even w ...

18 SUNDAY, AUGUST 9, 2020 I WAS AN ADULTthe first time I volunteered for a presidential campaign. It was in 2008 for Barack Obam ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 19 EAT THE BUDDHA:Life and Death in a Tibetan Town,by Barbara Demick. (Random House, $28.) Demick ...

20 SUNDAY, AUGUST 9, 2020 ................................................... It Takes TwoAdult friendships are hard. Maintainin ...