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Fiction: Does the Name Dag Solstad Mean Anything to You? It Should.

Friday, July 13, 2018 - 5:00am

By CHARLES FINCH

He’s Norway’s greatest living writer, and two more of his novels — “T Singer” and “Armand V” — have recently been translated.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

Nonfiction: North Korea: Where Everything Is Forbidden Unless It Is Allowed

Friday, July 13, 2018 - 5:00am

By SHEILA MIYOSHI JAGER

Travis Jeppesen’s “See You Again in Pyongyang” offers a glimpse into a country little known in the West.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

Fiction: A Multiracial Family Provides a Lens on the Essence of Caregiving

Friday, July 13, 2018 - 5:00am

By HELEN SCHULMAN

In Rumaan Alam’s second novel, “That Kind of Mother,” a white woman adopts a black son. Universal truths about family and motherhood ensue.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

My Stories Become Someone Else’s: Adapting a Book to Film

Friday, July 13, 2018 - 5:00am

By ANDREW SOLOMON

Andrew Solomon writes about the process of converting his book “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity” into a documentary.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

Letters to the Editor

Friday, July 13, 2018 - 5:00am

Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

Editors’ Choice: 9 New Books We Recommend This Week

Thursday, July 12, 2018 - 4:15pm

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.

Thursday, July 12, 2018 - 4:00pm

By ALEXANDRA ALTER

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.

Thursday, July 12, 2018 - 3:00pm

By ADAM KIRSCH

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

Thursday, July 12, 2018 - 7:00am

By Michael Schaub

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.

(Image credit: Samantha Clark/NPR)

Source: NPR Book Reviews

Fiction: In a Novel, Nine Voices in the South Anticipate an Execution

Thursday, July 12, 2018 - 5:00am

By TIM GAUTREAUX

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