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For July, 3 Romantic Reads That Prove Summer Is For Lovers

Sunday, July 8, 2018 - 10:00am

By Maya Rodale

Whether you like high-powered lawyers, ambitious politicians or petticoat-wearing paleontologists, July brings a bumper crop of romance novels, for all your happy-ever-after needs.

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Source: NPR Book Reviews

Young Adult Summer Books

Sunday, July 8, 2018 - 8:43am

By Barrie Hardymon

Too hot to go outside? Weekend Edition has some suggestions for what to read while curled up under your ceiling fan this summer.

Source: NPR Book Reviews

Book News: Yet Another Book Takes on Impeachment: This Time, the Case Against

Sunday, July 8, 2018 - 5:00am

By ALEXANDRA ALTER and SYDNEY EMBER

Alan Dershowitz‘s latest book, “The Case Against Impeaching Trump,” was written with a sense of urgency. It took two months.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

Books News: The Changing Face of Romance Novels

Saturday, July 7, 2018 - 5:00am

By ALEXANDRA ALTER

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?

Friday, July 6, 2018 - 4:08pm

By NICOLE HEMMER

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

Friday, July 6, 2018 - 3:40pm

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

Friday, July 6, 2018 - 5:00am

By VENDELA VIDA

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

Friday, July 6, 2018 - 5:00am

By STEVEN HELLER

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

Friday, July 6, 2018 - 5:00am

By DAISY FRIED

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’

Friday, July 6, 2018 - 5:00am

By JOUMANA KHATIB

Six new paperbacks to check out this week.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

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