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Nonfiction: Can Love Redeem the Sins of Jonah Lehrer?
In “A Book About Love,” Jonah Lehrer says love is defined not by romantic passion, but by a lifetime of steady emotions.

Fiction: A New Novel Envisions a Very Cold Environmental Future, Starting Now
Jenni Fagan’s “The Sunlight Pilgrims” sets a story of impending cataclysm at a moment unnervingly near at hand.

Dot Earth Blog: A Podcast on Climate Science, Communication, Pokémon, the Presidency…
A weekly climate podcast in which a curious paleoecologist, worried meteorologist and gray-bearded environmental journalist discuss the end of the world as we knew it.

As China’s Economy Slows, Beijing’s Growth Push Loses Punch
High debt and a glut of unneeded factories are hindering the government’s traditional effort to use spending and lending to spur more activity.

Paying Farmers to Go Organic, Even Before the Crops Come In
Demand for organic crops so outstrips the supply that some food brands are underwriting farmers’ arduous and costly transition to organic production.

Dot Earth Blog: Remembering a ‘Keystone’ Ecologist, Robert Paine
A biologist who turned sustained tide pool studies into an enduring ecological concept is remembered.

Books of The Times: Review: ‘Pond’ Makes Misanthropy Compelling
Claire-Louise Bennett’s slim first novel is about a young academic who has decamped to an Irish village, in flight from something unspecified.

By the Book: Herta Müller: By the Book
The 2009 Nobel laureate and author of the recently translated “The Fox Was Ever the Hunter” had no books of fairy tales as a child: “The only ‘fantastic’ stories came from religion class.”

Books of The Times: Review: ‘The Invention of Russia’ Examines the Post-Soviet Path
In Arkady Ostrovsky’s chronicle, the West plays a minor role in the chaotic emergence of a new, but no less authoritarian, state.

China Pledged to Curb Coal Plants. Greenpeace Says It’s Still Adding Them.
The construction boom would result in about 400 gigawatts of excess capacity and waste more than $150 billion on building unneeded plants, the group said in a report.

Nonfiction: Cynthia Ozick Takes Up Arms Against Today’s Literary Scene
In “Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays,” Cynthia Ozick longs for the re-establishment of a literary culture as profound as the one that reigned at midcentury.

Trilobites: After 300 Years of Collecting, Nearly 12,000 Amazon Tree Species Are Found
Researchers analyzed hundreds of thousands of samples in digitized museum collections to produce an estimate of species in the South American rain forest.

Books of The Times: Review: In Tracy Tynan’s Memoir, ‘Wear and Tear,’ Feeding on Explosive Drama
Ms. Tynan recounts life with her combative, hard-partying parents, the theater critic Kenneth Tynan and the novelist Elaine Dundy.

Dot Earth Blog: Ahead of the Election, Americans’ Climate Concerns Slosh
A new analysis of voters’ attitudes on global warming show partisans are alarmed and energized but most Americans are focused elsewhere.

Dot Earth Blog: A Conservationist’s Call for Humans to Curb Harms to Our Animal Kin
A conservationist explores climate change and implications of the blurring line between humans and other animals.

New York’s LED Streetlights Receive a Lukewarm Reception
In more upscale parts of New York, residents say the new lights are too bright, while other neighborhoods embrace them as a crime deterrent.

A Fraud? Jonah Lehrer Says His Remorse Is Real
As Mr. Lehrer tries to come back with a new book four years after he was discovered plagiarizing, he is facing criticism as well as support.

Books of The Times: Review: ‘Not Pretty Enough’ Charts the Rise of Helen Gurley Brown the Sex Guru
This biography of the Cosmopolitan editor and “Sex and the Single Girl” author traces her path from Arkansas-born secretary to glittering media czarina.

Future of Natural Gas Hinges on Stanching Methane Leaks
Southwestern Energy is leading an industry group that aims to cut methane leakage to less than 1 percent of national gas production..

Nonfiction: Did He or Didn’t He? Gay Talese’s Story of a Colorado Motel Owner Who Spied on His Guests May Not Be Trustworthy.
Gay Talese’s “The Voyeur’s Motel” seems to be full of inaccuracies.

Fiction: Lionel Shriver Imagines Imminent Economic Collapse, With Cabbage at $20 a Head
Lionel Shriver’s novel “The Mandibles” is a searing example of a new genre that could be called dystopian finance fiction.

Another Inconvenient Truth: It’s Hard to Agree How to Fight Climate Change
While activists can agree that something must be done, differences arise over exactly what and how, on issues like nuclear power and fracking.

Los Angeles Looks for Extra Water Down Its Alleys
In the fifth year of a drought, Los Angeles wants to convert miles of extra space to capture storm water.

Books of The Times: Review: In ‘Hot Milk,’ by Deborah Levy, a Broken Life and a Frayed Maternal Bond
Ms. Levy has set a seemingly simple story against a backdrop thrumming with low-key menace and sly, dry humor, sometimes in the same paragraph.

Dot Earth: Time Out, America
Can American communities repair the broken interface between citizens and keepers of the peace?

Review: ‘The Hatred of Poetry’: Let’s Count the Ways
Could it be that readers expect too much of poetry? The novelist and poet Ben Lerner explains.

Deutsche Bank Pulls Back from Deals in Coal Mining Sector
Investment bankers leave as Deutsche joins other banks in cutting financing to a beaten-down industry that has attracted environmentalists’ scorn.

Dot Earth Blog: A War for the Woods as an Asian Fungus Slightly Blunts Gypsy Moth Outbreaks
This year’s big outbreak of invasive gypsy moth caterpillars has been slightly blunted by an Asian fungus with a mysterious origin story.

Nonfiction: Should We Still Listen to Prozac? Peter D. Kramer Jumps Back Into the Antidepressant Debate.
Do antidepressants work? More often than not, argues the author of “Listening to Prozac.”

By the Book: Cynthia Ozick: By the Book
The author, most recently, of “Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays” leans to “Nabokov rather than Hemingway. If less is more, it is nevertheless also loss.”

Books of The Times: Review: Jonah Lehrer’s ‘A Book About Love’ Is Another Unoriginal Sin
The disgraced Mr. Lehrer returns from cultural exile with a book that tries to explain the dynamics of love — but it is insolently familiar.

Nonfiction: This Book of Essays by the Head Writer of ‘Inside Amy Schumer’ Is Hilarious
In 24 short pieces, a comedy writer and producer tells what happens when a tomboy grows up.

At a Cape Cod Landmark, a Strategic Retreat From the Ocean
At Herring Cove Beach, facing an erosion problem as many other coastal areas are, a damaged parking lot is being replaced with one farther back.

Feature: Should the United States Save Tangier Island From Oblivion?
It’s the kind of choice that climate change will be forcing over and over.

On Exile: What the Author of ‘The Return’ Learned by Going Back to Libya
Hisham Matar, the son of the Libyan dissident Jaballa Matar, discusses his father and what he realized after returning to his homeland.

On Exile: What the Author of ‘The Returned’ Learned by Going Back to Libya
Hisham Matar, the son of the Libyan dissident Jaballa Matar, discusses his father and what he realized after returning to his homeland.

Making a Case for ‘The Voyeur’s Motel’ by Gay Talese
This account of a Peeping Tom’s career has drawn criticism. But as literature, it succeeds — as a morally complex and sometimes bleakly funny book.

Chevron Approves $37 Billion Expansion of Kazakh Oil Field
Though the move looks to be unusual at a time of low oil prices, analysts say the field has been lucrative and important for Chevron and its partners.

Nonfiction: Libya’s Prisons Were Emptying. But Hisham Matar’s Father Was Nowhere to Be Found.
Hisham Matar’s account of trying to learn the fate of his father, an imprisoned Libyan dissident.

A Model for ‘Clean Coal’ Runs Off the Tracks
A Mississippi project, a centerpiece of President Obama’s climate plan, has been plagued by problems that managers tried to conceal, and by cost overruns and questions of who will pay.

Books of The Times: Review: ‘Invincible Summer’ Focuses on Friendships Built to Survive Crises
Alice Adams’s debut novel has a pokey start, but as its individual stories kick in, its grip tightens considerably.

In His New Novel, Ben Winters Dares to Mix Slavery and Sci-Fi
“Underground Airlines,” which has a white author and a black narrator, lands in a thicket of fictional works about slavery and its lingering legacy in America.

Books of The Times: Review: ‘Bush,’ a Biography as Scathing Indictment
If George W. Bush eventually gets a more sympathetic hearing by history, as he hopes, it will not start with Jean Edward Smith’s new book.

A Remote Pacific Nation, Threatened by Rising Seas
Climate change is threatening the livelihoods of the people of tiny Kiribati, and even the island nation’s existence. The government is making plans for the island’s demise.

By the Book: Geoff Dyer: By the Book
The novelist, essayist, critic and author, most recently, of “White Sands” says reading William Finnegan’s “Barbarian Days” made him realize his whole life has been pretty much a waste. “I suspected this anyway.”

Nonfiction: The Good, the True, the Beautiful and Chuck Klosterman