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Alice Munro, Nobel Laureate and Master of the Short Story, Dies at 92

Tuesday, May 14, 2024 - 12:22pm
By Anthony DePalma
Her stories were widely considered to be without equal, a mixture of ordinary people and extraordinary themes.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Alice Munro: An Appraisal

Tuesday, May 14, 2024 - 12:13pm
By Gregory Cowles
The Nobel Prize-winning author specialized in exacting short stories that were novelistic in scope, spanning decades with intimacy and precision.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


What are 'the kids' thinking these days? Honor Levy aims to tell in 'My First Book'

Tuesday, May 14, 2024 - 6:00am
By Leland Cheuk

Social media discourse and the inevitable backlash aside, the 26-year-old writer's first book is an amusing, if uneven, take on growing up white, privileged, and Gen Z.

Source: NPR Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘The Race to the Future,’ by Kassia St. Clair

Tuesday, May 14, 2024 - 5:03am
By Peter Sagal
In “The Race to the Future,” Kassia St. Clair chronicles the 8,000-mile caper that helped change the landscape forever.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Finding Beauty in the Chaos, and God in Cherry Blossoms

Tuesday, May 14, 2024 - 5:02am
By James Ijames
Tracing his path from homelessness to proud parenthood, the writer Carvell Wallace recounts a lifetime of joy and pain in his intimate memoir.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘Chasing Hope,’ by Nicholas D. Kristof

Tuesday, May 14, 2024 - 5:01am
By Reeves Wiedeman
In “Chasing Hope,” the veteran Times journalist remembers the highs and lows of his storied career.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘Morning After the Revolution,’ by Nellie Bowles

Tuesday, May 14, 2024 - 5:01am
By Laura Kipnis
In “Morning After the Revolution,” an attack on progressive activism, the journalist Nellie Bowles relies more on sarcasm than argument or ideas.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘Skies of Thunder,’ by Caroline Alexander

Tuesday, May 14, 2024 - 5:01am
By Elizabeth D. Samet
In the riveting “Skies of Thunder,” Caroline Alexander considers what it took to get supplies to Allied ground troops in China.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Claire Messud's sweeping novel borrows from her own 'Strange Eventful History'

Monday, May 13, 2024 - 12:03pm
By Maureen Corrigan

Messud draws from her grandfather's handwritten memoir as she tells a cosmopolitan, multigenerational story about a family forced to move from Algeria to Europe to South and North America.

Source: NPR Book Reviews


My Octopus Teacher's Craig Foster dives into the ocean again in 'Amphibious Soul'

Monday, May 13, 2024 - 6:00am
By Barbara J. King

Nature's healing power is an immensely personal focus for Foster. He made his film after being burned out from long, grinding hours at work. After the release of the film, he suffered from insomnia.

Source: NPR Book Reviews


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