Karen Russell Proves She's A True Original With 'Orange World'
Russell's new story collection encompasses everything from a boy in love with a bog body to a woman trying to get out of a bargain with the devil — it's unlike anything you've ever read before.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
Fiction: In Bryan Washington’s ‘Lot,’ Stories Reveal Houston’s Hidden Borders
In this debut collection, daily lives in the barrio bespeak a universal American condition.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Audiobooks: Hear Andrew McCabe’s Story in His Own Words, and in His Own Voice
The former F.B.I. deputy director recounts his short-lived tenure as a key player in the Trump administration.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
'Nothing's Bad Luck' Zeroes In On The Life And Lasting Work Of Warren Zevon
C.M. Kushin has delivered a nuanced, in-depth, loving look at the complicated singer/songwriter, one that helps cement him as one of the most complex and captivating music figures of our times.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
Audiobooks: Colin Farrell Joins the League of High-Profile Narrators of ‘A Portrait of the Artist’
The actor brings a new, restrained lilt to James Joyce’s 1916 classic.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Audiobooks: Rainn Wilson Narrates a New Audiobook of ‘The Phantom Tollbooth’
The actor, best known for his role on “The Office,” revives Norton Juster’s 1960 classic children’s story.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Fiction: A Debut Novel Set on the Brooding, Remote Kamchatka Peninsula
Julia Phillips’s “Disappearing Earth” explores the lives of interconnected women in far eastern Russia after a horrific crime.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
In 'A Good American Family,' A Son Details How The Red Scare Upended His Father
Pulitzer prize-winning David Marannis immerses himself in family records and interviews with relatives of others to piece together how his parents paid for supporting communism in their youth.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
Nonfiction: How Was Polynesia Populated? Two New Books Explore the Pacific’s Mysteries
Christina Thompson’s “Sea People” tells the story of the people of Polynesia and their “discovery,” while Peter Moore’s “Endeavour” looks at the ship that made that encounter possible.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Nonfiction: Justice John Paul Stevens Looks Back on His Long Career
Stevens’s “The Making of a Justice” is both a personal memoir and a meditation on the law.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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