Fiction: A Rich Novel That Reveals Itself Through Linked Lives
Kamila Shamsie reviews “Improvement,” by Joan Silber, a novel depicting a world that is small and capacious at once.
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Nonfiction: Dramatic Reading: A Memoir by the Director of ‘The History Boys’
In “Balancing Acts,” Nicholas Hytner remembers his time at the National Theatre in London.
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Fiction: Psychedelic Comics Like Beautiful Tattoos
“The Green Hand,” a collection of Nicole Claveloux’s work, shows off her darkly humorous, existential and erotic style.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Art Books: Julia Child, Seen Through Her Husband’s Lens
“France Is a Feast” collects 225 photographs taken by Paul Child in the years after World War II, as he and his wife explored their adopted country.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Nonfiction: In a Bowie Oral History, a Glimpse of How Others Saw the Faker
Dylan Jones’s “David Bowie: A Life” captures its subject’s radically plastic persona, his capacity to accommodate any identity at will.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Nonfiction: Alan Bennett’s Latest Nonfiction
David Ives reviews “Keeping On Keeping On,” a collection of journalism, diary entries and play prefaces.
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Art Books: What Could Have Been Iconic
“Unseen,” by Darcy Eveleigh, Dana Canedy, Damien Cave and Rachel L. Swarns, collects images from black history that were never published by The Times.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Nonfiction: Yellowstone’s Most Famous Wolf Gets Her Own Book
In “American Wolf,” Nate Blakeslee chronicles the survival of O-Six and her home’s complex ecosystem.
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Art Books: A Decade in Book Design
“Chip Kidd: Book Two” revisits the graphic artist’s influence on the literary canon of late, both inside and out.
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: Thomas Mallon on “A Christmas Carol.”
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