Two Brits Achieve Artistic Balance In 'Valerie's Head'
Author David Gaffney and illustrator Dan Berry bring just the right amount of nuttiness to their new graphic novel, about a woman who keeps the memories of disappointing exes in a cellar in her mind.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
'A Place Of Darkness' Is An Illuminating History Of Horror
Kendall R. Phillips' new look at early American horror movies is academic, sure — but its central arguments make for great reading about how shifting cultural currents shape what scares us on screen.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
Deep, Compassionate 'Tess Of The Road' Contains A Whole World
Rachel Hartman follows up Seraphina and Shadow Scale with the story of Tess, a rebellious young woman who runs away to escape being sent to a nunnery, and finds pain and growth along her road.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
The Book Review Podcast: A Marine’s Inventive Memoir
Matt Young discusses “Eat the Apple,” and A. O. Scott talks about Martin Amis’s “The Rub of Time.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Sketchbook | Literary Resolutions: Book Ambition
A graphic pep talk for the literary year ahead.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Inside the List: Spinning a Brutal Off-the-Grid Childhood into a Gripping Memoir
In “Educated,” Tara Westover recounts her remarkable journey from a remote mountainside in Idaho to Cambridge University.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Our Back Pages: Notes From the Book Review Archives
In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: Joseph Wood Krutch and the future’s inevitability.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
The Shortlist: Putting Down the Scalpel, Picking Up the Pen
Four memoirs by doctors who explore the line that divides their identities as healers from that of fellow human beings.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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