The Shortlist: Family Memoirs: The Ties That Bind and Those That Fray
Four reminiscences of mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, from farming communities in California and South Dakota to the suburbs of New York.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Editors’ Choice: 10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Crime: Video Gaming Turns Murderous, Even if You Play by the Rules
Marilyn Stasio’s Crime column enters a dangerous online world, then jumps to a very real drug gang, a hit man in a hospital and a dog with a death sentence.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Nonfiction: The Art Market Is Exploding. This Book Profiles the Dealers Who Lit the Fuse.
A dishy look at the art world’s most powerful gallerists — including Larry Gagosian and David Zwirner — “Boom,” by Michael Shnayerson, recounts how artworks became multimillion-dollar commodities.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
'Middlegame' Makes Mathematical Magic
Seanan McGuire's new standalone novel stars twins: Roger is good at words and Dodger is good at math — and both of them find themselves caught up in a shadowy alchemical plan for world domination.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
Nonfiction: The World According to John Waters, as Interpreted by Alan Cumming
The septuagenarian filmmaker’s latest collection of essays, “Mr. Know-It-All,” is just what its subtitle promises: “The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Fiction: A Singer’s Hard Question: Can Her Career Coexist With Motherhood?
Laura Barnett’s novel “Greatest Hits” uses the creation of a retrospective album to explore a woman’s tempestuous life in music.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Nonfiction: We Have Abundant Food. Why Is Our Health — and the Planet’s — So Bad?
Bee Wilson’s “The Way We Eat Now” delves into the startling consequences of the globalization that has revolutionized our relationship to food.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
'A Thousand Small Sanities' Is A Lesson In Understanding Liberalism
By showing the impact it's had in the past, Adam Gopnik presents liberalism not only as a moral adventure but also as a necessity in an age of resurging autocracy and rampant bigotry.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
By the Book: By the Book: Ani DiFranco
The singer-songwriter, whose new memoir is “No Walls and the Recurring Dream,” says her shelves contain “poetry for when my mind is spinning” and “a bunch of learn-how-to-meditate books that don’t seem to be helping.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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