Graphic Content: Cartoonists Who Draw in Order to Be Heard
Ben Passmore’s “Your Black Friend and Other Strangers” is one of three books reviewed that struggle with difference, dysphoria and the struggle to survive.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Fiction: Mack the Knife, Now a Transgender Hero of London’s Riotous Underground
Jordy Rosenberg’s debut novel, “Confessions of the Fox,” is a heady romp through an 18th-century England awash in sex, crime and revolutionary ideas.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Fiction: Four Countries, Five Families, Seven Decades — and One Devastating Storm
A typhoon roaring ashore in Bangladesh in 1970 is the linchpin of “The Storm,” Arif Anwar’s bighearted debut novel.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Our Back Pages: 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: Amy Tan’s debut, “The Joy Luck Club.”
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Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
The Enthusiast: In Praise of Elizabeth Hardwick
“Of all the books I have reread to comfort myself, I have turned most often to ‘Sleepless Nights,’ not without a little bitter tang of irony because of its title.”
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
Fiction: Neither Here Nor There: Living and Loving Between China and America
Two debut novels, “Number One Chinese Restaurant,” by Lillian Li, and “The Emperor of Shoes,” by Spencer Wise, feature characters whose lives are deeply entangled with two cultures.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
An Aging Philip Marlowe Returns In 'Only To Sleep'
Lawrence Osborne's new Marlowe novel brings us a version of the gumshoe in his 70s, lonely and slow, looking into another mysterious death. It's a book that seems simple, but hides cavernous depths.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
By the Book: Simon Rich: By the Book
The humor writer Simon Rich, whose latest collection is “Hits and Misses,” would love to see his life as a Ken Burns documentary: “Just a lot of slow pans of me typing on my computer, while sitting in different positions. And the whole time, inexplicably, there’s jazz.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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