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Jennifer Szalai

Jennifer Szalai

Jennifer Szalai is a non-fiction book critic for NYT, previously a senior editor at Harper’s Magazine.

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Richard J Evans' 'Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich' is being justifiably lauded for its elegance and scope

Updated On: 18 Aug 2024 | 11:06 PM IST

Chandler deserves credit for refusing to relegate his book to the airy realm of wistful abstraction

Updated On: 12 May 2024 | 10:13 PM IST

The MAGA Movement's Ground War to End Democracy, a new book by Isaac Arnsdorf, a journalist at The Washington Post

Updated On: 28 Apr 2024 | 9:57 PM IST

Slow Productivity is Newport's eighth book; he is also a professor of computer science at Georgetown and a contributing writer at The New Yorker

Updated On: 10 Mar 2024 | 9:40 PM IST

The profusion of exclamation points is a tipoff that Lewis is at least somewhat aware how dumb such optimism looks in retrospect - especially now that Bankman-Fried's trial on fraud charges has begun

Updated On: 15 Oct 2023 | 10:16 PM IST

Egginton gestures at connections between the work of Heisenberg, Kant and Borges, between physics and metaphysics, fiction and fact

Updated On: 17 Sep 2023 | 10:55 PM IST

This is a propulsive book, one to be raced through; the planet is burning, and we are running out of time

Updated On: 02 Jul 2023 | 10:09 PM IST

The writer Leila Philip adds to a genre of pro-beaver literature that turns out to be more populous than most of us may have known

Updated On: 25 Dec 2022 | 10:39 PM IST

As the Yale historian Beverly Gage makes abundantly clear in G-Man, her revelatory new biography of Hoover, all of this is true

Updated On: 27 Nov 2022 | 10:17 PM IST

The story of humans measuring things is no less than the story of civilisation - a claim that sounds like irritating hyperbole but in this case turns out to be true

Updated On: 13 Nov 2022 | 10:40 PM IST

Gregg's clever and provocative book is full of irreverent notions and funny anecdotes - the creative upside to being a human animal

Updated On: 21 Aug 2022 | 10:55 PM IST

This "mirror of graciousness" wasn't something that Malaika, for one, was especially interested in providing

Updated On: 31 Jul 2022 | 10:52 PM IST

The animals in Yong's book are mostly nonhuman, but scientists are necessarily part of his story too

Updated On: 04 Jul 2022 | 12:26 AM IST

The biographical material in Metaphysical Animals is evocative and sparkling

Updated On: 13 Jun 2022 | 2:28 AM IST

Atoms and Ashes recounts six accidents in detail, the first three connected to 'atoms for war' (bomb-making) and the last three connected to 'atoms for peace' (energy production)

Updated On: 30 May 2022 | 2:25 AM IST

Yovanovitch was the child of immigrants who had fled the Soviets and the Nazis

Updated On: 20 Mar 2022 | 10:21 PM IST

The skill with which Mr Bhattacharya teases apart dense scientific concepts left me feeling ambivalent

Updated On: 27 Feb 2022 | 11:31 PM IST

Ms Zuboff can get overheated with her metaphors; an extended passage with tech executives as Spanish conquistadors and the rest of us as indigenous peoples is frankly ridiculous

Updated On: 21 Jan 2019 | 1:31 AM IST