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Lily Ebert, Holocaust Survivor, Author and TikTok Star, Dies at 100

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 - 1:26pm
By Emmett Lindner
She survived Auschwitz, wrote a best-selling memoir, “Lily’s Promise,” and spoke to a following of 2 million fans on TikTok.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Can a Start-Up Help Authors Get Paid by A.I. Companies?

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 - 12:38pm
By Alexandra Alter
Created by Humans, a company that aims to help writers license their works for use by A.I. companies, has struck a partnership with the Authors Guild.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Revives Questions About Trump’s Ties to Putin

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 - 8:42am
By Peter Baker
The journalist Bob Woodward cited an unnamed aide saying that Donald J. Trump had spoken to Vladimir V. Putin as many as seven times since leaving office. Multiple sources say they cannot confirm that report.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


With the Nobel Prize in Literature, Greatness Is Not the Same as Popularity

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 - 5:03am
By A.O. Scott
As the Nobel Committee gets ready to admit a new writer into the pantheon, our critic asks: Is greatness overrated?
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Cécile Desprairies Was Inspired by a ‘National Family Secret in France’

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 - 5:02am
By Tobias Grey
Cécile Desprairies’s novel, ‘The Propagandist,’ was also inspired by her mother, who made art and slogans for Vichy France and its Nazi leaders.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘Selling Sexy,’ by Lauren Sherman and Chantal Fernandez

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 - 5:00am
By Leah Greenblatt
In “Selling Sexy,” two veteran fashion journalists examine how Victoria’s Secret fell from grace.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘The Witches of El Paso,’ by Luis Jaramillo

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 - 5:00am
By Eleanor Dunn
In this family saga, a floundering lawyer must tap into her supernatural heritage to help her family in the past and present.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Biden Excoriated Netanyahu on Israel’s Conduct in the War, Woodward Book Says

Tuesday, October 8, 2024 - 5:40pm
By Peter Baker and Ephrat Livni
The book, “War,” lays bare just how frustrated the president has become with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since the war in Gaza began.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Lore Segal, a Master Storyteller, at the End of Her Story

Tuesday, October 8, 2024 - 4:47pm
By Matthew Shaer
At 96, Lore Segal is approaching death with the same startling powers of perception she brought to her fiction.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘Our Evenings,’ by Alan Hollinghurst

Tuesday, October 8, 2024 - 9:00am
By Hamilton Cain
In Alan Hollinghurst’s new novel, “Our Evenings,” a Burmese English actor grapples with race and ambition, sexuality and love in a bigoted world.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


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