Horror: Spine-Chilling and Flesh-Crawling: The Latest Horror Fiction
There’s something for everyone here: 17th-century English witches, haunted portraits, Victorian ghost tales and a moldering Eastern European castle.
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
Nonfiction: The Author Who Tased Himself to Reveal the Failures of High-Tech Policing
In “Thin Blue Lie” Matt Stroud untangles the web of law enforcement agencies, for-profit corporations and politicians that have put technology at the center of policing.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
'Now, Now, Louison' Attempts To Bring Art, And Its Artist, To Life
Writer and gallery owner Jean Frémon inhabits artist Louise Bourgeois as if she herself were writing this novel-cum-memoir, opening up our understanding of both the artist and her art.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
By the Book: By the Book: Richard Powers
The author, most recently, of “The Overstory” was from an early age a “fan of awe”: “I liked reading about diatoms and stars, things from four hundred million years ago or a hundred thousand years from now.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Fiction: Salman Rushdie Reviews a Sweeping Debut About the Roots of Modern Zambia
In “The Old Drift,” Namwali Serpell spins a multigenerational, magical-realist tale of the East African nation from colonialism to the future.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
By the Book: By the Book: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
The scholar and host of the PBS series “Reconstruction,” whose latest books are “Dark Sky Rising” and “Stony the Road,” is a productive beach reader: “I read more during two months on the Vineyard … than I do the entire rest of the year.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Could A Novel Lead Someone To Kill? 'Murder By The Book' Explores The Notion
Author Claire Harman writes that one reason François Benjamin Courvoisier gave for why he murdered his boss Lord William Russell in 1840 was that he wanted to model himself on a book character.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
Nonfiction: The Two Artist Couples Who Helped Launch American Modernism
Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, Paul Strand and Rebecca Salsbury coupled, fought and made some of the most influential photographs and paintings of the 20th century. “Foursome,” by Carolyn Burke, tells their story.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
In 'Who Killed My Father,' A Son Renders His Father Seen And Heard
There is a universality to Édouard Louis' story — the child's longing for acceptance contrasted with the mature son's painful journey to understand why his father behaved as he did.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
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