Book Reviews

Fiction: A Novel’s Team of Explorers Sets Out to Tame Alaska

New York Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/02/2016 - 09:24
Journals trace a husband’s and wife’s separate ventures in the Northwest of the 1880s in Eowyn Ivey’s “To the Bright Edge of the World.”
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Fiction: Heroin Addiction, Anorexia, a Failing Marriage: This Novel’s Narrator Has It All

New York Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/02/2016 - 09:23
The narrator of Jade Sharma’s “Problems” aims degrading remarks at other women.
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Paperback Row

New York Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/02/2016 - 09:22
Seven new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Editors' Choice: 9 Books for Back-to-School That Times Editors Think You Should Read

New York Times Book Reviews - Thu, 09/01/2016 - 16:36
New books recommended by the editors of The New York Times Book Review this week.
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'Light Between Oceans' leaps up best-seller list

USAToday Books - Thu, 09/01/2016 - 16:29

Movie adaptations are powering sales of several books.

        
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'Altamont' remembers rock’s darkest day

USAToday Books - Thu, 09/01/2016 - 16:23

Joel Selvin's book recreates the nightmarish 1969 concert with the Stones.

        
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By the Book: Daniel Silva: By the Book

New York Times Book Reviews - Thu, 09/01/2016 - 06:00
The author of the Gabriel Allon thrillers, including the latest, “The Black Widow,” loves F. Scott Fitzgerald and named his son Nicholas after Nick Carraway from “The Great Gatsby.” But his daughter is Lily — “not Daisy or Jordan or Myrtle.”
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Fiction: An Immigrant Family Encounter the 1 Percent in a Debut Novel

New York Times Book Reviews - Thu, 09/01/2016 - 04:30
In Imbolo Mbue’s “Behold the Dreamers,” immigrants from Cameroon are drawn into a banker’s family as the financial crisis deepens.
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Nonfiction: Sorry, Mom and Dad: You’re Not So Important After All

New York Times Book Reviews - Thu, 09/01/2016 - 04:30
In “Do Parents Matter?,” the married anthropologists Robert A. LeVine and Sarah LeVine explain why parenting styles aren’t nearly as important as we imagine.
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Lawrence Wright's chilling new book explores roots of terrorism

USAToday Books - Wed, 08/31/2016 - 11:48

'The Terror Years' is a powerful follow-up to 'The Looming Tower.'

        
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Nonfiction: The End of Intervention: Two Books Explore the American Catastrophe in the Middle East

New York Times Book Reviews - Wed, 08/31/2016 - 04:30
Lawrence Wright’s “The Terror Years” and J. Kael Weston’s “The Mirror Test” examine the effects of terrorism in the Middle East and the American obsession with it.
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Fiction: A Novel’s Exiles Flee North Korea: Now What?

New York Times Book Reviews - Wed, 08/31/2016 - 04:30
Exiles define their lives outside North Korea in Krys Lee’s debut novel, “How I Became a North Korean.”
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Watch Graham Moore's live chat

USAToday Books - Tue, 08/30/2016 - 14:43

His new book is 'The Last Days of Night.'

        
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Bookends: Why Do Debut Novels Command So Much Attention?

New York Times Book Reviews - Tue, 08/30/2016 - 14:02
Leslie Jamison and Ayana Mathis discuss the hype behind first novels.
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Lena Dunham to publish a collection of short stories

USAToday Books - Tue, 08/30/2016 - 11:32

Our favorite girl is conquering yet another area of publishing.

        
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Nonfiction: Attica, Attica: The Story of the Legendary Prison Uprising

New York Times Book Reviews - Tue, 08/30/2016 - 04:30
Heather Ann Thompson’s “Blood in the Water” is about the Attica prison uprising of 1971, its aftermath, and the continuing quest for justice.
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Tom Wolfe rules this 'Kingdom of Speech'

USAToday Books - Mon, 08/29/2016 - 17:22

In 'The Kingdom of Speech,' the best-selling writer looks at the study of linguistics.

        
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Nonfiction: A Book Examines the Curious Case of a Man Whose Memory Was Removed

New York Times Book Reviews - Mon, 08/29/2016 - 04:30
In “Patient H.M.,” the journalist Luke Dittrich questions his grandfather’s role in an infamous case of a patient with permanent amnesia.
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Fiction: Noah Hawley on a Thriller in Which Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse Face Off

New York Times Book Reviews - Mon, 08/29/2016 - 04:30
Graham Moore’s “The Last Days of Night” is inspired by Edison’s efforts to drive Westinghouse out of business.
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Nathan Hill dazzles with debut novel 'The Nix'

USAToday Books - Sun, 08/28/2016 - 13:00

Nathan Hill deftly juggles characters and time periods.

        
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