What’s So Funny About Old Age? Apparently a Lot
Three comic novels (H.M. Naqvi’s “The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack,” Sloane Tanen’s “There’s a Word for That” and Evan James’s “Cheer Up, Mr. Widdicombe”) feature protagonists on the other side of their prime.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
An Epidemic of Violence We Never Discuss
Rachel Louise Snyder’s “No Visible Bruises” recounts the horror of domestic violence in all its forms and argues for a more systematic approach to this abuse.
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A Hunk and a Savant Walk Into a Poetry Class. …
Lucy Ives’s debut novel, “Loudermilk,” satirizes both “bro” culture and the culture of creative writing programs in one fell swoop.
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Who Writes American History? And How?
Readers respond to Joseph J. Ellis’s review of Rick Atkinson’s “The British Are Coming.”
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10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Finding Mercy in the Wake of the Charleston Massacre
An intimate account of the 2015 hate crime and its aftermath, “Grace Will Lead Us Home,” by Jennifer Berry Hawes, explores how those affected struggled to carry on.
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New in Paperback: ‘Amity and Prosperity,’ ‘The Great Believers’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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New on the Fiction List This Week: ‘Ask Again, Yes’
Mary Beth Keane was researching a historical novel when “real life kept intervening,” so she wrote a contemporary saga of suburban New York instead.
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'Life With Picasso' Stands As An Invaluable Work Of Art History
Newly reissued, the intellectual heft of Françoise Gilot's now classic memoir is in its art criticism, even as its emotional arc lies in Picasso and Gilot's unequal romance.
(Image credit: Lipnitzki/Roger Viollet/Getty Images)
Source: NPR Book Reviews
'The Plaza' Is A Nostalgic Look At The History Of New York's Most Famous Hotel
Julie Satow's book reads like the biography of a distant relative as much as the history of a landmark building; the author argues that no other building so directly reflects the city itself.
(Image credit: George Marks/Getty Images)
Source: NPR Book Reviews
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