Fiction: For These Characters, Foreign Cultures Are Just Another Consumer Good
The globe-trotting cosmopolitans in Michelle de Kretser’s satirical new novel, “The Life to Come,” make a fetish of travel and prepare exotic meals with an eye to Instagram.
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Nonfiction: Can Sobriety Be as Interesting as Addiction? A Writer Wonders
In “The Recovering,” the novelist and essayist Leslie Jamison explores her own alcoholism and the struggle to make art out of giving up drinking.
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'And Now We Have Everything' Charts The Emotional Extremes Of An Ordinary Pregnancy
Memoirs now tend toward the unique and superhuman, recounting experiences most of us will never have. But Meaghan O'Connell's wry new book is brutally honest about something commonplace: pregnancy.
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Beautiful But Heartrending, 'The Only Story' Looks Back At Love Gone Wrong
Julian Barnes' latest novel concerns the pained recollections of an aging Englishman's life-changing only love — the "only story" that really matters about him.
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Nonfiction: Freeman Dyson’s Life, Through His Letters
In “Maker of Patterns,” the renowned physicist presents his correspondence, revealing observations about the great minds of the 20th century.
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.
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Match Book: Dear Match Book: Genre Fiction by Black Writers, About Black Characters
Fiction that runs the gamut from horror and fantasy to science fiction and mystery, all told from a nonwhite perspective.
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Fiction: Jo Nesbo Sculpts ‘Macbeth’ Into Shadowy Crime Noir
The Norwegian crime writer turns Shakespeare’s tragedy into a fast-paced thriller about murder and corruption in 1970s Glasgow.
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Have A Spring Fling With These 3 April Romances
As we wait endlessly for spring to really spring, we're consoling ourselves with three new romances — from a designing duke to a spymaster to a straight-laced librarian who lets go for one night.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
Children’s Books: Speaking Truth, Beautifully, to Shattered Young People
Elizabeth Acevedo, Kwame Alexander, Juan Felipe Herrera and Naomi Shihab Nye write unforgettable verse about love, loss and the pain and joy of growing up.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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