Editors’ Choice: 9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Books News: The Obama-Biden Bromance Continues. This Time in a Mystery Novel.
In a new crime novel, the 44th president and his vice president team up to solve a suspicious death, and patch up their frayed friendship in the process.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
A French Novelist Imagined Sexual Dystopia. Now It’s Arrived.
Michel Houellebecq has eerily foreseen some of the worst social developments of our time.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
'The Last Cruise' Is A Bit More Than A 3-Hour Tour
Kate Christensen's new novel follows a group of people on a vintage-themed cruise — think cabaret, cocktails and no Internet — who are thrown together unexpectedly when things go wrong on board.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
Fiction: In a Novel, Nine Voices in the South Anticipate an Execution
In “The Mercy Seat,” by Elizabeth H. Winthrop, locals in a small Louisiana town consider justice and law before a black man is to be put to death.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
By the Book: Michiko Kakutani: By the Book
The Times’s former chief book critic Michiko Kakutani, author of “The Death of Truth,” doesn’t think in terms of genre: “J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books are no more Y.A. reading, to me, than John le Carré’s Smiley novels are spy stories.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Nonfiction: A Writer’s Life: The Romance and the Reality
In “The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography,” the prolific British author Deborah Levy reflects on the sacrifices and satisfactions of her career.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
'The Fall Of Wisconsin' Puts The State's 2016 Presidential Choice In Context
In 2016, Wisconsin picked a Republican for president for the first time since 1984. In his new book, Dan Kaufman, who grew up in the state, tries to show the vote for Trump was part of a larger story.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
Floating Prison Drones Equal Menace In 'The Furnace'
Prentis Rollins' new graphic novel is set in a near future where the government uses drone-powered mobile invisibility fields to control its prisoners, keeping them out of sight and incommunicado.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
Nonfiction: The Urbane Bookworm: Robert Gottlieb’s Essays Celebrate Literature, Film Classics and Dance
In “Near-Death Experiences … and Others,” his new collection, the esteemed editor weighs in on romance novels, Hollywood movies and — a longstanding love — ballet.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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