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Supermarket displays of oranges will never look the same after reading 'Foreign Fruit'

Monday, May 5, 2025 - 2:54pm
By Kristen Martin

In her new hybrid memoir, Katie Goh unravels the multitudes citrus fruit contains, in lockstep with mythologies of colonialism, inheritance, and identity.

Source: NPR Book Reviews


MrBeast and James Patterson Are Writing a Novel Together

Monday, May 5, 2025 - 10:00am
By Alexandra Alter
Jimmy Donaldson, known to his social media fans as MrBeast, is teaming up with the mega-best-selling thriller author.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘Little Bosses Everywhere,’ by Bridget Read

Monday, May 5, 2025 - 5:00am
By Emma Goldberg
Bridget Read’s “Little Bosses Everywhere” exposes the deceptions of direct-selling companies that make their profit not off customers but off their own sales force.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘The Dazzling Paget Sisters,’ by Ariane Bankes

Sunday, May 4, 2025 - 5:00am
By Alexandra Jacobs
In “The Dazzling Paget Sisters,” Ariane Bankes unearths the writings of her high-society mother and aunt, getting glimpses at the 20th-century figures with whom they cavorted.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘Tequila Wars,’ by Ted Genoways

Sunday, May 4, 2025 - 5:00am
By J. D. Biersdorfer
In a new history, Ted Genoways explores the dramatic life of an enigmatic figure who revolutionized his country’s spirits industry.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘The Butcher’s Daughter,’ by David Demchuk and Corinne Leigh Clark

Sunday, May 4, 2025 - 5:00am
By Jennifer Harlan
A new novel, “The Butcher’s Daughter,” imagines the haunting past of Mrs. Lovett, the infamous baker who assisted the serial killer Sweeney Todd.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


2 Books to Read Instead of Meditating

Saturday, May 3, 2025 - 7:50am
A gentle and clever comic novel; a poetic and tender essay on addiction.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


‘The Interview’: Ocean Vuong was Ready to Kill. A Moment of Grace Changed His Life.

Saturday, May 3, 2025 - 5:15am
By David Marchese
The poet and novelist on the real reason he became a writer.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘The Deserters,’ by Mathias Énard

Saturday, May 3, 2025 - 5:00am
By Dustin Illingworth
In “The Deserters,” Mathias Énard weaves the story of a lone soldier with that of a brilliant scholar.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


An Ojibwe Writer Refuses to Let Her Mother’s Trauma Be in Vain

Saturday, May 3, 2025 - 5:00am
By Nicholas Cannariato
In “Medicine River,” Mary Annette Pember recounts what happened to her mother, and many like her, who were abused in Indian boarding schools.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


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