Books News: The Changing Face of Romance Novels
Some publishers are starting to acquire books written by black, Asian and other minority writers that feature more character diversity, but barriers remain.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Nonfiction: Where Did the Radical Right Come From?
Kathleen Belew’s “Bring the War Home” traces the beginnings of the white power movement to the Vietnam War.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
The Book Review Podcast: An Inside View of Putin
Michael McFaul discusses “From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia,” and Ottessa Moshfegh talks about her new novel, “My Year of Rest and Relaxation.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Fiction: A Woman Sleeps a Year Away in Ottessa Moshfegh’s Darkly Comic New Novel
In “My Year of Rest and Relaxation,” a beautiful young Columbia graduate seeks spiritual renewal through slumber.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Tom Wolfe’s Lesser Known Career as a Cartoonist
Taking the absurdist themes and trends of his 1970s milieu as his material, the late New Journalist left behind visual reminders of his endless capacity for satire.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
The Shortlist: Sex, Death, Suffering and Surrealism, in New Books of Poetry
Collections by Diane Seuss, Analicia Sotelo, Jenny George and Bianca Stone cast a wide net to capture and describe personal experience.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
New in Paperback: ‘Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine,’ ‘The Fact of a Body’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Help Desk: Adversity Needn’t Thwart or Define You. Here’s How to Cope.
Elizabeth Smart’s “Where There’s Hope” offers advice on moving past trauma. Books by a psychologist, a pediatrician and a mother add more perspective.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Fiction: In Knausgaard’s ‘Spring,’ a Man Considers How Best to Help His Sick Wife
In the third installment of a quartet of books addressed to his youngest child, the Norwegian author recounts a medical emergency and its aftermath.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Fiction: Her Lover May Not Exist, but Her Doubts About the Patriarchy Are Real
Helen Weinzweig’s novel “Basic Black With Pearls” traces a woman’s increasingly fantastical search for an identity beyond marriage and motherhood.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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