The Shortlist: Four Thrillers, United by Male Trouble
A selection of novels featuring men on their worst behavior.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
In 'Crux,' A Journalist Investigates The Troubled Life Of Her Own Father
At age 11, Jean Guerrero's mother told her that her dad had schizophrenia. Years later, the author is unable to verify the diagnosis — and refuses to accept it.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
Fiction: A Noirish Narrative in Which the Self Is an Enigma, and So Is Everything Else
In Laura van den Berg’s new novel, “The Third Hotel,” an American widow visiting a Cuban film festival thinks she sees her late husband.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Nonfiction: Chris Hayes Reviews Michiko Kakutani’s Book About Our Post-Truth Era
“The Death of Truth” looks at “the age of Trump” — and shudders.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Fiction: Lauren Groff Reveals the Stormy Side of the Sunshine State
In her new story collection, “Florida,” the author of “Fates and Furies” constructs a wild, reptile-ridden landscape of fathers, sons and mothers who are all somehow adrift.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Fiction: It’s 1988 and Philip Marlowe Is Retired. But Not for Long.
Lawrence Osborne’s novel “Only to Sleep” jolts Raymond Chandler’s P.I. out of his quiet Mexican lair and back into the world of scams and seductions.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
The Science Of Female Anger And Ambition, In 'Give Me Your Hand'
Megan Abbott's new novel follows two women with a troubled past who meet again, working in the lab of a powerful scientist. It's a slow-burning story whose final explosion is a true surprise.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
Nonfiction: When the Creator of Sherlock Holmes Exonerated a Convicted Murderer
Margalit Fox’s “Conan Doyle for the Defense” tells the forgotten story of a man wrongly convicted of a crime and a writer’s help in pursuing justice.
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
The Book That Terrified Neil Gaiman. And Carmen Maria Machado. And Dan Simmons.
13 authors recommend the most frightening books they’ve ever read.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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