'Sight' Is A Penetrating Vision Of Motherhood, Science And More
Jessie Greengrass' novel is packed with shimmering sentences and poetic paragraphs from a narrator who's never content to drift along, but must probe "the convoluted crenellations of the mind."
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
'Coyote Doggirl' Is A Childlike Western With Hidden Depths
Artist Lisa Hanawalt creates kids' stories for grownups, both on TV — she's the production designer for BoJack Horseman — and in her new book Coyote Doggirl, a candy-colored Western saga.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
What I Love: Gary Shteyngart’s Year-Round Dacha
The upstate house offers an escape from a New York City that no longer exists — and a place where he can write three times as fast.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Nonfiction: Mad, Bad and Difficult to Know: The Life of a Rebel Aristocrat
In “Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret,” Craig Brown dishes out gossipy tales of Queen Elizabeth’s younger sister.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Nonfiction: Titles and Troubles: American Heiresses Abroad
“The Husband Hunters” is Anne de Courcy’s glittering account of the Gilded Age wave of young women whose fortunes saved the British aristocracy.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Witty, Imaginative, Risky And Relentless — 'Flights' Soars
Olga Tokarczuk's book won the 2018 Man Booker International Prize. Critic John Powers says the hard-to-classify work is positively exploding with maps, remembrances, riffs, history and more.
Source: NPR Book Reviews
Books News: A James Baldwin Book, Forgotten and Overlooked for Four Decades, Gets Another Life
The novelist’s only children’s book is coming back into print, and it couldn’t be more timely.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Nonfiction: Meet the ‘Change Agents’ Who Are Enabling Inequality
In “Winners Take All,” Anand Giridharadas explores a global elite that bemoans the state of the world while refusing to seek real, structural change.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Books News: A New, Flourishing Literary Scene in the Real Shangri-La
The Kingdom of Bhutan, tucked away in the Himalayas, just got TV. Now it’s home to ambitious young authors who are telling their country’s stories for the first time, usually in English.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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