'Decarcerating America' Is A Powerful Call For Reform
This new essay, edited by Ernest Drucker, argues that mass incarceration — more than 2 million Americans are locked up — tears at our social fabric and leaves people with no option but to reoffend.
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Nonfiction: In a New Biography of the Bouvier Women, Jealousies Rule
“Jackie, Janet & Lee,” by J. Randy Taraborrelli, reveals bonds as fierce as the scandals that threatened them.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Nonfiction: Who Owns the Elgin Marbles?
In “The Real Life of the Parthenon,” Patricia Vigderman visits classic sites of the ancient world, exploring their complex, contested heritage.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Match Book: Dear Match Book: Two Budding Bookworms — and Friends — Seeking Literary Realism
Novels for young readers that tackle the complexities of the human condition.
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Nonfiction: An Irish Flâneur, Greeting the Past on His Present Wanderings
John Banville’s “Time Pieces” takes the acclaimed novelist back to the Dublin of his youth, recalling people and places that still live in his memory.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Essay: The Iceman Cometh Out
One of Marvel’s X-Men, Iceman, has finally accepted that he is gay in a comic book series that is breaking new ground for the genre.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
For These Unhappy Campers, Trauma Blights Their Lives 'Forevermore'
Kim Fu's new novel about a sleepaway camp sojourn that turns shattering for five young girls. But though the troubles seem tame — thirst and a lack of gummi bears — the horror comes later.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
Only The Mad Will Make It In The World Of 'The Chateau'
Paul Goldberg's new book starts with the death of a famous plastic surgeon — the Butt God of Miami Beach — and never slows down, mining drama, betrayal and crime from a Miami condo board election.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
The Book Review Podcast: Lisa Halliday on ‘Asymmetry’
Halliday discusses her debut novel, and Naomi Novik and Gerald Jonas remember the life and work of Ursula K. Le Guin.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Fiction: Two Novels Trace Parallels Between Past and Present, or Create Them
“The Maze at Windermere,” by Gregory Blake Smith, imagines Newport, R.I., from the 17th century to today. “Peculiar Ground,” by Lucy Hughes-Hallett, does the same for a British estate.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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