Children’s Books: Magic Ripples Just Below the Surface in These Novels
In fantasies by K. Sello Duiker and Jaleigh Johnson, children use magic to navigate the streets of a South African township and a hostile world called Tallhaven.
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The Shortlist: Personal Stories From the Refugee Experience
Three books relate the individual accounts of people caught up in events larger than themselves.
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Nonfiction: From Rags to Ill-Gotten Riches in 1930s China
Paul French’s “City of Devils” is a narrative fiction of the “tawdry city” Shanghai before World War II.
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Nonfiction: Rome Wasn’t Sacked in a Day
Matthew Kneale’s “Rome: A History in Seven Sackings” narrates the city’s past through the marauders who have devastated it.
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Nonfiction: The Woman Who Created a Monster
For the 200th anniversary of “Frankenstein,” the poet Fiona Sampson has written a new biography of its author: “In Search of Mary Shelley.”
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Fiction: ‘Beowulf’ Gets a 21st-Century Update
In “The Mere Wife,” by Maria Dahvana Headley, the epic poem is reimagined as an imaginative tale of class conflict.
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Crime: For Marilyn Stasio, Any Place Can Be the Scene of the Crime
This week’s mysteries move from a New Hampshire boarding school to a London rowhouse, with stops in New York City and a ramshackle shed in Oakland.
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Fiction: Classical Myths Filtered Through a Modern Prism
In his new novel, “Metamorphica” — the title is a nod to Ovid’s epic poem — Zachary Mason reworks and respins ancient Greco-Roman myths.
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Fiction: Rumpelstiltskin Redux
In her brilliant new novel, “Spinning Silver,” Naomi Novik riffs on a number of fairy tales, including the straw-into-gold classic.
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