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It's summer at last, and you won't find any relief from the heat in our editors' round-up of the hottest books they know.
Read MoreElizabeth Gilbert’s ambitious novel imagines the life of a 19th-century woman botanist, as insightful as Darwin but lost to history. It’s an interesting project, and a worthy one, but does the novel live up to its premise?
Read MoreHe wrote about the voyage of the Beagle, and then he wrote about the Origin of Species ... but many readers don't recall that Charles Darwin KEPT writing, generating many more books in the two decades left to him.
Read MoreNow published in paperback: a fantastic annotated edition of Charles Darwin's eternally-relevant bombshell, "On the Origin of Species"
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