Jennifer Egan Looks Back at ‘A Visit From the Goon Squad’
The fourth in a series of conversations with authors appearing on our “Best Books of the 21st Century” list.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
'A Wilder Shore' charts the course of a famous bohemian marriage
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Camille Peri's lively and substantive dual biography of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson offers a glimpse of their unconventional marriage — and an inspiration for living fearlessly.
Source: NPR Book Reviews
Book Review: ‘Swallow the Ghost,’ by Eugenie Montague
“Swallow the Ghost,” by Eugenie Montague, is an up-to-the-minute mystery that defies convention.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Book Review: ‘The Slow Road North,’ by Rosie Schaap
Rosie Schaap’s new memoir, “The Slow Road North,” recalls her grief and her subsequent move out of Brooklyn.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Book Review: ‘Paradise, Bronx,’ by Ian Frazier
Ian Frazier’s history roams far and wide, on foot and in the archives, celebrating (if not romanticizing) a perennially “in between” part of New York.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Book Review: ‘The Volcano Daughters,’ by Gina María Balibrera
A new novel recalls a dark period of El Salvador’s history, as well as Hollywood’s Golden Age and the art salons of Paris.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Book Review: ‘There Are Rivers in the Sky,’ by Elif Shafak
Elif Shafak’s new novel, “There Are Rivers in the Sky,” follows the same drop of water from the Tigris to the Thames, from antiquity to the 19th century to today.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Book Review: ‘Prisoner of Lies,’ by Barry Werth.
In “Prisoner of Lies,” Barry Werth tells the story of a young C.I.A. operative who spent two decades waiting out the postwar era in a Chinese jail cell.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Can We Talk? The Characters in These 2 Books Can, and How
Evelyn Waugh’s garrulous embalmers; Deborah Eisenberg’s urban neurotics.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Profile: Virginia Nicholson
In “All the Rage,” the social historian Virginia Nicholson discusses the changing standards that bedeviled and enthralled a century of women.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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