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
The Shortlist: Three Recent Novels Show Off Latin America’s Varied History — and Literary Style
“The Farm,” by Héctor Abad, “In the Distance With You,” by Carla Guelfenbein, and “The Linden Tree,” by César Aira, range from rural Colombia to cosmopolitan Santiago and Peronist Argentina.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Nonfiction: A White House Memoir That’s Equal Parts C-Span and ‘Sex and the City’
“The Corner of the Oval” is Beck Dorey-Stein’s fresh, funny, utterly unconventional account of working for President Obama.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Daring New Novel Fetishizes A Desperate Desire For Sleep
Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation centers on a miserable young woman who believes that if she could only sleep long enough, she'd wake up refreshed and free of existential pain.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
'Rest And Relaxation' Is As Sharp As Its Heroine Is Bleary
Ottessa Moshfegh's bizarrely fascinating new novel follows a young woman in Manhattan who decides to sleep her life away with a combination of pills, waking occasionally for bad bodega coffee.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
Fiction: A Novel That Reads Like Martin Amis on Mescaline
A psychopathic but oddly charming coke dealer shoots and blusters his way through “The Price You Pay,” Aidan Truhen’s brilliant, blood-soaked thriller.
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: The Making of a Moral Hero: ‘The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela’
A new book assembles 255 letters, both heartbreaking and inspiring, by the former South African president and civil rights activist, who spent more than 27 years in jail.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Fiction: An Instagram-Obsessed Anthropologist Riffs on the Meaning of ‘Maleness’
In Lynne Tillman’s novel “Men and Apparitions,” Zeke Stark explores how the feminist movement has affected men.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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