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Jennifer Szalai
Jennifer Szalai
Jennifer Szalai is a non-fiction book critic for NYT. She first joined The Times in 2012 as a preview editor at the Book Review, and also did a short stint assigning and editing pieces for Opinion section. Previously, she was a senior editor at Harper's Magazine, where she was in charge of reviews section. Before becoming a critic at The Times in 2018, she wrote for various publications, including Slate, The New Yorker and the London Review of Books.
Jennifer Szalai is a non-fiction book critic for NYT. She first joined The Times in 2012 as a preview editor at the Book Review, and also did a short stint assigning and editing pieces for Opinion section. Previously, she was a senior editor at Harper's Magazine, where she was in charge of reviews section. Before becoming a critic at The Times in 2018, she wrote for various publications, including Slate, The New Yorker and the London Review of Books.
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Chilling tales of blasts, fallout and meltdowns
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)
 "Chilling tales of blasts, fallout and meltdowns")
The other Ukraine crisis
Yovanovitch was the child of immigrants who had fled the Soviets and the Nazis
 "The other Ukraine crisis")
The genius who saw tomorrow
The skill with which Mr Bhattacharya teases apart dense scientific concepts left me feeling ambivalent
 "The genius who saw tomorrow")
The art of tech poaching
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
