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The Book Review Podcast: Rose McGowan on ‘Brave’

Friday, February 2, 2018 - 12:15pm

McGowan talks about her new memoir, and Katie Kitamura discusses Tom Malmquist’s new novel, “In Every Moment We Are Still Alive.”

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

Children’s Books: Children’s Books About Black History, Heavy on Biographies

Friday, February 2, 2018 - 11:36am

By RUMAAN ALAM

Slavery, Jim Crow, segregation: Black history is “a tale so devoid of logic, it frustrates the young reader.” These books about great lives can help.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

A Revolving Review of ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’

Friday, February 2, 2018 - 5:00am

By SERGIO GARCIA SANCHEZ

Sergio García Sánchez pays visual homage to Lewis Carroll’s classic tale.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

The Shortlist: France’s Love Affair With Food

Friday, February 2, 2018 - 5:00am

By MIRANDA SEYMOUR

Two Americans (David Lebovitz and David Downie) and an Australian (John Baxter) celebrate the culinary pleasures of the country they now call home.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

Nonfiction: Eyewitnesses to America’s Greatest International Competitor

Friday, February 2, 2018 - 5:00am

By HANNAH BEECH

Michael Meyer’s “The Road to Sleeping Dragon” and Xiaolu Guo’s “Nine Continents” describe China as a country in profound transition.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

Fiction: A Fictional Heroine’s Fitful Upbringing Is Set Against the Sino-Japanese War

Friday, February 2, 2018 - 5:00am

By WEIKE WANG

Eileen Chang’s “Little Reunions” vacillates in time and place to reveal a Chinese-American woman’s complex coming-of-age.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

Nonfiction: One of the Men Who ‘Set Europe Ablaze’

Friday, February 2, 2018 - 5:00am

By ALAN FURST

Paul Kix’s “The Saboteur” recounts the exploits of Robert de La Rochefoucauld, an aristocrat who became a fighter for the French Resistance.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

Crime: Murderous Trips Into the Past, Then a Return to a Dangerous Present

Friday, February 2, 2018 - 5:00am

By MARILYN STASIO

Marilyn Stasio’s Crime column features mysteries set in 1920s Britain and Freud’s Vienna, paired with two modern-day American puzzlers.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

Fiction: Evil Stepmother, Reimagined

Friday, February 2, 2018 - 5:00am

By MARINA WARNER

A reissue of Barbara Comyns’s “The Juniper Tree” shows off her reworking of one of the Grimms’ grimmest tales.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

Fiction: The Plot to Kill Hitler

Friday, February 2, 2018 - 5:00am

By JOSHUA HAMMER

“Munich,” Robert Harris’s latest thriller, features the Führer and the notorious Neville Chamberlain.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews