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Book Review: ‘Stone Blind,’ by Natalie Haynes

Sunday, February 5, 2023 - 5:00am
By Lucinda Rosenfeld
Natalie Haynes’s new novel, “Stone Blind,” continues her retellings of Greek legends, this one featuring the snake-haired Gorgon, long a symbol of female monstrosity.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘A Spell of Good Things,’ by Ayòbámi Adébáyò

Sunday, February 5, 2023 - 5:00am
By Aamina Ahmad
In Ayòbámi Adébáyò’s “A Spell of Good Things,” the lives of a working-class boy and a wealthy young doctor converge to expose the precarity of the social order.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


What Does It Mean to Be Liberal?

Saturday, February 4, 2023 - 5:00am
By James Traub
In his new book, “The Struggle for a Decent Politics,” the political philosopher Michael Walzer grapples with a definition.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: “B.F.F.,” by Christie Tate

Saturday, February 4, 2023 - 5:00am
By Lisa Selin Davis
In her new memoir, “B.F.F.,” Christie Tate looks at her history of failed platonic relationships and learns something about herself.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘Someone Else’s Shoes,’ by Jojo Moyes

Saturday, February 4, 2023 - 5:00am
By Marshall Heyman
In “Someone Else’s Shoes,” Jojo Moyes puts a fresh spin on the classic plot where characters swap circumstances.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


As Wallace Stevens Once Put It: Hi!

Saturday, February 4, 2023 - 5:00am
By Elisa Gabbert
Poetic beginnings — first lines, or first poems in collections — do a lot of work in setting the tone and the reader’s expectations.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘Big Swiss,’ by Jen Beagin

Friday, February 3, 2023 - 1:35pm
By Jennifer Wilson
In Jen Beagin’s “Big Swiss,” a sex therapist’s transcriptionist fantasizes about sleeping with a married female patient, who also happens to go to her dog park.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


A Look Ahead at the Season’s Big Books

Friday, February 3, 2023 - 11:19am
Gilbert Cruz and Tina Jordan discuss the upcoming books they’re most excited to read in the next few months.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Review: ‘An Assassin in Utopia,’ by Susan Wels

Friday, February 3, 2023 - 9:48am
By Mattie Kahn
Susan Wels’s “An Assassin in Utopia” links President Garfield’s killer to the atmosphere of free love and religious fervor that gripped Oneida, N.Y., in the late 1800s.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Brazil’s Lula Promised ‘More Books in Place of Guns.’ Can He Deliver?

Friday, February 3, 2023 - 5:00am
By Eric M. B. Becker
In his first terms as president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva expanded the scope of who could get published in the country, and who could access books. His return to the presidency comes with expectations, and hurdles.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


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