Set among the fevered residents of a remote Australian town, Ruby Todd’s debut novel considers how grief can draw people to extreme beliefs. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-07-16 09:00:27 UTC ]
Last week, The New York Times Book Review published a list of the “100 Best Books of the 21st Century.” (Well, so far, obviously. Why not just call it the best books of the last 25 years? Do they know something we don’t? Oh well.) To put it together, the Book Review surveyed “hundreds of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-07-16 08:56:08 UTC ]
Peter Schjeldahl’s final book collects the essays and reviews he wrote in the years after a cancer diagnosis. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-07-15 09:03:01 UTC ]
A roundtable of Book Review editors discuss what surprised them, what delighted them, what will send them back to their own shelves. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-07-12 19:21:49 UTC ]
In July, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” Patricia Highsmith’s classic 1955 thriller about wealth, status, obsession and murder. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-07-02 09:03:17 UTC ]
Starring an undergraduate student at Oxford, Rosalind Brown’s debut novel is exquisitely attuned to the thrill and boredom of academic life. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-06-22 09:00:56 UTC ]
In Nicola Yoon’s first novel for adults, “One of Our Kind,” a woman finds that a lush California suburb is not what it seems. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-06-11 09:01:04 UTC ]
In his memoir “The Friday Afternoon Club,” the Hollywood hyphenate Griffin Dunne, best known for his role in Martin Scorsese’s “After Hours,” recounts his privileged upbringing. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-06-09 09:02:20 UTC ]
In a new book, the journalist and science fiction writer Annalee Newitz shows how we have used narrative to manipulate and coerce. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-06-05 09:05:03 UTC ]
Reading Anna Akbari’s memoir of online manipulation, you think you’ve seen it all — then you keep reading. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-06-04 14:30:08 UTC ]
Picture book writers whose works look different from one another because they’re illustrated by different artists are less apt to be on your radar. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-05-31 09:04:00 UTC ]
World Literature Today Announces 2024 Student Translation Prize Winners, by the Editors of WLT News and Events [email protected] Tue, 05/14/2024 - 16:27 Lucy Coleman and Madeline Jones, winners of the 2024 Student Translation PrizesWorld Literature... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2024-05-14 21:27:38 UTC ]
For The Book Review Podcast’s May book club, we’ll talk about “James,” Percival Everett’s radical reimagining of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-05-10 15:51:16 UTC ]
Michael Deagler’s first novel follows a young man who is piecing his life back together and trying very hard not to drink. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-05-06 09:00:26 UTC ]
The editor and essayist Joseph Epstein looks back on his life and career in two new books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-04-22 09:03:39 UTC ]
In the debut novel “The Band,” a burned-out pop idol meets a disillusioned professor, raising the question: What if the dangers of fame resemble white-collar ennui? Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-04-13 09:02:30 UTC ]
In the memoir “Rabbit Heart,” Kristine S. Ervin explores the human being behind sensational headlines, and our culture’s insatiable thirst for other people’s tragedy. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-03-23 09:00:45 UTC ]
Vinson Cunningham’s impressive debut novel finds a watchful campaign aide measuring his ambitions on the trail of a magnetic presidential candidate. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-03-12 09:00:38 UTC ]
In Andrew Boryga’s debut novel, a young writer creates a career for himself by exaggerating, or sometimes completely manufacturing, stories of tragedy. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-03-09 10:00:20 UTC ]
Britain’s youngest code-breakers, brought to life in a new nonfiction book by Candace Fleming, were normal teenagers: playing pranks, attending dances. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-03-08 10:01:52 UTC ]