‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ Still Rules the Fiction List. Over on Nonfiction, Though, Things Are in Flux.
Two mainstays of the nonfiction list — memoirs by Michelle Obama and Tara Westover — have moved down a bit, making room for a new No. 1.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Theater of Dreams: A Tale of Boom and Bust at the Plaza Hotel
Reviewing Julie Satow’s “The Plaza,” Tina Brown dishes on the socialites, tycoons and charlatans who made and lost fortunes and reputations at the storied hotel.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
‘Dream Sequence’ Is a Novel of Obsessive Celebrity Fandom
Adam Foulds’s new book tracks a mediocre British actor and a troubled Pennsylvania woman who stalks him.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
A Debut Novel of Political and Personal Upheaval in Late-20th-Century Nigeria
Nnamdi Ehirim’s “Prince of Monkeys” witnesses a diverse group of friends navigating riots and their own comings-of-age in Lagos in the ’80s and ’90s.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
George F. Will: By the Book
The political columnist and author, most recently, of “The Conservative Sensibility” has no love for Holden Caulfield: “Just what the world does not need: another sullen adolescent.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Two Novels About Rape, Murder and Female Victims
Patrick McGuinness’s “Throw Me to the Wolves” and James Lasdun’s “Afternoon of a Faun” are both meditations on our present-day moral climate.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
A Star Is Born? Try Manufactured, a New Book Argues
In “The Drama of Celebrity,” Sharon Marcus focuses on Sarah Bernhardt as a case study in the rise of celebrity culture.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Prep School Confidential
Secrets — and spirits — swirl through Michael Knight’s novel, “At Briarwood School for Girls.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Wondering at the ‘Special Universe’ of Gay Life in All Its Diversity
In “Out of the Shadows,” Walt Odets looks at the trauma and shame that still plague gay men, and argues for more self-actualized and authentic lives.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Bill Geist Fondly Remembers the Middle America of Old
“Land of the Ozarks” looks back at a time that was less healthy than today, but possibly more fun.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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