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Book Review: ‘The Art of Dying,’ by Peter Schjeldahl

Monday, July 15, 2024 - 5:03am

By Dwight Garner

Peter Schjeldahl’s final book collects the essays and reviews he wrote in the years after a cancer diagnosis.

3 Book Critics Dissect the 100 Best Books List

Monday, July 15, 2024 - 5:02am

The good news: Our “Best Books of the 21st Century” list showed surprising affection for works in translation. But where are Sally Rooney, Ayad Akhtar and others “explaining how we live now”?

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

Book Review: ‘Rat City,’ by Jon Adams and Edmund Ramsden

Monday, July 15, 2024 - 5:02am

By Ian Volner

In “Rat City,” Jon Adams and Edmund Ramsden explore the life, times and influence of the scientific Pied Piper, John Bumpass Calhoun.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

A Family Tour of Crete and Athens

Monday, July 15, 2024 - 5:00am

By Reif Larsen

On a family tour of Greece, the writer followed the small footsteps of some of ancient mythology’s biggest fans.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

Book Review: ‘Alexander at the End of the World,’ by Rachel Kousser

Sunday, July 14, 2024 - 5:00am

By Justin Marozzi

In a new telling of the Macedonian leader’s final years, Rachel Kousser shows what happened when dreams of conquest met reality.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

Book Review: ‘Smothermoss,’ by Alisa Alering

Sunday, July 14, 2024 - 5:00am

By Lauren Beukes

Alisa Alering’s debut novel, “Smothermoss,” is an Appalachian mystery tangled with wild magic, queer coming-of-age and sisterly bonds.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

What Our Broken Politics Owe to the Nazi Jurist Carl Schmitt

Saturday, July 13, 2024 - 5:03am

By Jennifer Szalai

A contempt for compromise. An expansive vision of executive power. Both owe much to Carl Schmitt.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

How Do You Tell Immigrant Stories? Dinaw Mengestu Has an Answer.

Saturday, July 13, 2024 - 5:01am

By Anderson Tepper

The Ethiopian American novelist also talks aesthetics and the inspiration behind his most recent novel, “Someone Like Us.”

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

Book Review: ‘I Was a Teenage Slasher,’ by Stephen Graham Jones

Saturday, July 13, 2024 - 5:00am

By Christopher Bollen

In Stephen Graham Jones’s new novel, a young outcast is forced to become a murderer fated to enact gory revenge.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

Talking About the Century’s Best Books

Friday, July 12, 2024 - 3:21pm

A roundtable of Book Review editors discuss what surprised them, what delighted them, what will send them back to their own shelves.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

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