From Our Archives: Notes From the Book Review Archives
In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: Robert B. Irwin on “talking books.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Inside the List: Why Aren’t People Buying Much Fiction These Days?
Sales of novels may be flagging, but nonfiction sales — fed by a seemingly endless stream of political books — are robust.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Audiobooks: Poet and Punk: Patti Smith’s New Audiobook
“Patti Smith at the Minetta Lane: Words and Music” showcases her songs, her memoirs and her verse.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Audiobooks: Two New Audiobooks Inspire Teenagers to Make Real Change
Both “We Are Not Yet Equal” and “We Say #NeverAgain” shine a spotlight on social justice issues.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Audiobooks: On the Page and Out Loud, Two Actors Recount Very Different Paths
"My Squirrel Days” is the upbeat tale of Ellie Kemper’s hard-won Hollywood career, and “Out of My Mind” relives Alan Arkin’s spiritual journey. Both authors recite their own audiobooks.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Audiobooks: A Novel About the Death Camps, Brought to Vivid Life in Audio
The British actor Richard Armitage delivers a masterly reading of Heather Morris’s World War II story, “The Tattooist of Auschwitz.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
New in Paperback: ‘The Dawn Watch,’ ‘The Complete Stories’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Nonfiction: How a Small-Town Newspaper Editor Won a Pulitzer Prize
In “Storm Lake,” Art Cullen relates how he took on agricultural polluters and a complicit local government in rural Iowa — and why he became a newspaperman in the first place.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Fiction: Take a Very Dark Trip Through the California Desert With ‘The Feral Detective’
In Jonathan Lethem’s new novel, a young woman unmoored by the 2016 election goes on an adventure involving rival desert gangs, a missing teenager and a private eye with Brillo sideburns.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Nonfiction: A New Novel Asks, What Is More Powerful, a Microphone or a Gun?
In “Destroy All Monsters,” by Jeff Jackson, the latest target of violence in America is music.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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