Nonfiction: A Personal Fight for the Dignity of L.G.B.T. People in India
In “An Indefinite Sentence,” Siddharth Dube recounts his personal struggle to destigmatize homosexuality and AIDS in his home country.
In 'Proxima Centauri,' A Teenager And His Creator Struggle To Grow Up
Comics creator Farel Dalrymple returns to the world of his 2014 book The Wrenchies for a story about a teen genius stuck — in more ways than one — on a space station light years away from Earth.
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In 'Dead Queens Club,' Henry VIII Is The Homecoming King
Hannah Capin's zippy new young adult novel follows intrepid journalist Annie (she's from Cleveland so her pal Henry calls her Cleves) as she investigates the mystery of Henry's dead girlfriends.
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Teen Drag Queens Will Steal Your Heart In 'Death Prefers Blondes'
Caleb Roehrig's new YA thriller follows socialite-turned-cat burglar Margo Manning and her crew of kickboxing drag queens as they take on one last multimillion-dollar heist — and its consequences.
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The wife [DVD]
Author: Runge, Björn, 1961- film director. Close, Glenn, 1947- actor. Irons, Max, 1985- actor. McGovern, Elizabeth, 1961- actor. Slater, Christian, actor.
Published: 2019 2018
Call Number: WIFE
Format: Video disc
Summary: The story of the couple's youthful passion and ambition interwoven with a portrait of a marriage, thirty-plus years later, a lifetime's shared compromises, secrets, betrayals, and mutual love.
Published: 2019 2018
Call Number: WIFE
Format: Video disc
Summary: The story of the couple's youthful passion and ambition interwoven with a portrait of a marriage, thirty-plus years later, a lifetime's shared compromises, secrets, betrayals, and mutual love.
Lao Shi = Old Stone [DVD]
Author: Ma, Johnny (Film director), film director, screenwriter. Wu, Xianjian, film producer. Lin, Jian (Motion picture director and producer), film producer. Stallard, Sarah, de film producer. Chen, Gang (Actor), actor.
Published: 2018
Call Number: OLD CHI/ENG
Format: Video disc
Summary: In Johnny Ma's thrilling debut feature, a Chinese taxi driver finds himself plunged into a Kafkaesque nightmare where no good deed goes unpunished.
Published: 2018
Call Number: OLD CHI/ENG
Format: Video disc
Summary: In Johnny Ma's thrilling debut feature, a Chinese taxi driver finds himself plunged into a Kafkaesque nightmare where no good deed goes unpunished.
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
The Book Review Podcast: Assessing the Facebook Problem
Roger McNamee talks about “Zucked,” and Charles Finch discusses the season’s best thrillers.
Inside the List: 70 and Female Is the New Cool
Mary Pipher’s “Women Rowing North” celebrates the unacknowledged talents and wisdom of older women — a demographic increasingly in the limelight.
New in Paperback: ‘An American Marriage,’ ‘How Democracies Die’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Fiction: A Grieving Mother Converses With Her Dead Son in Yiyun Li’s New Novel
In “Where Reasons End,” an unnamed narrator plumbs the nature of suffering — and the limits of language — in a dialogue with the child she mourns.
Children’s Books: Picture Books That Let Imaginations Soar
In the latest from Beth Ferry and Tom Lichtenheld, Shaun Tan and others, a boy and his dog head to the moon, a crab bakes cakes and a cat foils a bakery break-in.
Profile: Meet the Guardian of Grammar Who Wants to Help You Be a Better Writer
Benjamin Dreyer sees language the way an epicure sees food. And there are cretins everywhere he looks.
'King Of Scars' Muses On The Monstrous
Leigh Bardugo's latest returns readers to her Grishaverse, a few years after a grand magical battle left young King Nikolai of Ravka with a demonic problem he's now struggling to keep secret.
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Sketchbook: The Urban Grid of Writerdom
An illustrated map of the authorial life.
12 New Books to Look for in February
A follow-up to “The Hate U Give.” An investigation into the Chernobyl disaster. True crime in Northern Ireland. And more.
The Shortlist: A Quartet of First Novels Takes Readers From Trinidad to the Himalayas
Disappearances link the works of Claire Adam, Madhuri Vijay, Juliet Lapidos and James Charlesworth: missing persons, missing manuscripts and missed connections.
Crime: Marilyn Stasio’s Crime Column Exhumes the Murderous Past
New novels take readers back to Tudor England (C.J. Sansom), 1920s England (Charles Todd) and the age of Queen Victoria (Mick Finlay).
Nonfiction: The Examined Life May Be More Worth Living. Reading About It Is Another Matter.
Reema Zaman, Sophia Shalmiyev and Pam Houston all seek solace in memoir for their pain.
Nonfiction: A Deep Dive Into the ‘Underground’ World of Caves and Tunnels
Will Hunt travels from New York’s subways to Australian ochre mines to tell the subterranean story of what exists beneath us.
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