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Nonfiction: A Deep Dive Into the ‘Underground’ World of Caves and Tunnels

Friday, February 1, 2019 - 5:00am
By JONATHAN A. KNEE
Will Hunt travels from New York’s subways to Australian ochre mines to tell the subterranean story of what exists beneath us.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


From Our Archives: Revisiting Roberto Bolaño — ‘the Visceral Realist’

Friday, February 1, 2019 - 5:00am
The Book Review’s past sheds light on the books of the present. This week: James Wood on the Chilean author’s legacy.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Letters to the Editor

Friday, February 1, 2019 - 5:00am
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Editors’ Choice: 10 New Books We Recommend This Week

Thursday, January 31, 2019 - 4:36pm
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Nonfiction: The Brutal Economy of Cleaning Other People’s Messes, for $9 an Hour

Thursday, January 31, 2019 - 3:00pm
By EMILY COOKE
In “Maid,” Stephanie Land describes what it’s like to be a single mother struggling to survive.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Fiction: A Fantasy Set in Africa, by Way of Hieronymus Bosch, García Márquez and Marvel Comics

Thursday, January 31, 2019 - 11:00am
By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
Michiko Kakutani reviews “Black Leopard, Red Wolf,” the first volume of Marlon James’s “Dark Star” trilogy. The novel is packed with dizzying references fused into something new and startling.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Nothing Is Taboo In 'Twenty-Ninth Year'

Thursday, January 31, 2019 - 10:00am
By Gabino Iglesias

Hala Alyan reflects on three decades of life in an intimate, unsparing new poetry collection that offers a unique look at life as a Palestinian in exile, a woman, and a young person looking for love.

(Image credit: Amr Alfiky/NPR)

Source: NPR Book Reviews


'Here And Now And Then' Is A Perilous Mix Of Parenthood And Time Travel

Thursday, January 31, 2019 - 7:00am
By Ilana Masad

In Mike Chen's debut novel, a time-traveling secret agent is stranded in the past and has to live out a normal life — including a family — that becomes a problem when he returns to his own time.

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Source: NPR Book Reviews


By the Book: Marlon James: By the Book

Thursday, January 31, 2019 - 5:00am
The author, most recently, of “Black Leopard, Red Wolf” admires fantasy fiction that feels “wonderfully strange and alarmingly familiar at the same time. That and a woman or man who can wield two swords.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Nonfiction: The Persistence of Anti-Semitism

Wednesday, January 30, 2019 - 2:00pm
By BRET STEPHENS
Deborah E. Lipstadt’s “Antisemitism: Here and Now” charts the new guises of Jew hatred.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


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