Nonfiction: The Contradictions of Joseph Conrad
Maya Jasanoff’s book, “The Dawn Watch,” uses Conrad’s work to tell a story of globalization, imperialism and resistance.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Match Book: Dear Match Book: Books to Fuel, Not Fix, My Sadness
Harrowing tragedy abounds in these selections of fierce, female-centered fiction.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Fiction: A Timely Novel of Anti-Progress by Louise Erdrich
In “Future Home of the Living God,” Erdrich’s futuristic novel, evolution runs backward, reproduction is threatened and the climate has changed, irrevocably.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
'Dawn Watch' Explores The Life And Legacy Of Joseph Conrad
Maya Jasanoff weaves together biography, history, literature and her own travels in a new book about the globe-trotting author. Reviewer John Powers says Jasanoff's portrait of Conrad is terrific.
Source: NPR Book Reviews
Fiction: Whatever Happened to Isabel Archer? ‘Mrs. Osmond’ Picks Up Where Henry James Left Off
John Banville’s sequel to James’s “Portrait of a Lady” follows the heroine back to Rome and to the possible end of her marriage.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Nonfiction: ‘Little House on the Prairie’ and the Truth About the American West
A new biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder “refreshes and revitalizes” our understanding of westward expansion, pioneer life and the literature that mythologized it.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
In 'Body Music,' Love Is Sweet, Sexy And A Touch Sentimental
French graphic novelist Julie Maroh — author of Blue is the Warmest Color — is back with an earnestly sweet collection of vignettes about love, kept from being saccharine by her skill with faces.
(Image credit: Arsenal Pulp Press )
Source: NPR Book Reviews
'Bunk' Is Encyclopedic, Fascinating — And Frustrating
Kevin Young's new book puts forth an instantly convincing pairing of race and hoaxing — both a "fake thing pretending to be real." But he loses readers' trust with knotty, overly aphoristic writing.
(Image credit: Christina Ascani/NPR)
Source: NPR Book Reviews
Nonfiction: Queen of the Glossies
“The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983-1992” is Tina Brown’s own record of running that influential magazine, and all the glittering prizes that came with it.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Now You Can Read the Book From ‘Jane the Virgin’
Jane Villanueva’s book will finally be published on the show. It will also be available for fans to purchase in real life.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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