Philip Kerr, 62, Author of ‘Gunther’ Crime Novels, Is Dead
Though wary of being typecast as a one-note author, Mr. Kerr, to keep his fans satisfied, ended up writing 13 novels about a detective in Nazi-era Berlin.
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Fiction: Sean Penn, Satirist, Swings at America in a Wild Debut Novel
The actor spares no one in “Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff,” about a hired killer (maybe) and politics (for sure): “We are a nation in need of an assassin.”
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Magnificent Book Captures The Beauty And Tragedy Of The Battleship Yamato
Jan Morris chronicles the final days of the most powerful warship in the Imperial Japanese Navy in her latest book. Critic Maureen Corrigan calls Battleship Yamato a work of both power and restraint.
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'Tangerine' Charts An Obsessive Friendship Turned Sour
Christine Mangan's new novel, set in Morocco in the 1950s, centers on the sinister tension between two ex-friends — but the dusty, detailed Moroccan scenery sometimes gets in the way of the story.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
Fiction: In a Thriller About Girlfriends, Which Femme Is Fatale?
The quiet menace thrumming just below the surface of Christine Mangan’s debut, “Tangerine,” evokes Patricia Highsmith’s psychological thrillers.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Children’s Books: Young Heroines Who Are Saviors, but Not Saints
In novels by Lissa Evans, Roshani Chokshi and Diane Magras, girls go on urgent rescue missions. That’s only fair, since they caused the trouble themselves.
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.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Match Book: Dear Match Book: Hidden Gems
Eclectic works of fiction from off the beaten path.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Nonfiction: How to Be a Jew in the Age of Trump?
Jonathan Weisman’s “(((Semitism)))” takes American Jews to task for not being vigilant enough about threats to democratic norms.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Fiction: A Novelist’s Exuberant Love Letter to a Mexican-American Clan
Sprawling, funny and deeply tender, Luis Alberto Urrea’s novel “The House of Broken Angels” tackles the intricacies of family and the ravages of time.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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