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He Sang ‘What a Fool Believes.’ But Michael McDonald Is in on the Joke.

Thursday, May 9, 2024 - 5:04am
By Alexandra Jacobs
The singer and songwriter with a silky-smooth voice has written a memoir with Paul Reiser that recounts his story of pain and redemption with dashes of humor.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Magic, secrets, and urban legend: 3 new YA fantasy novels to read this spring

Wednesday, May 8, 2024 - 2:37pm
By Caitlyn Paxson

A heist with a social conscience, a father using magic for questionable work, an urban legend turned sleepover dare: These new releases explore protagonists embracing the magic within themselves.

Source: NPR Book Reviews


On Poetry: What Do We Mean by ’the Speaker’?

Wednesday, May 8, 2024 - 11:29am
By Elisa Gabbert
Critics and readers love the term, but it can be awfully slippery to pin down. That’s what makes it so fun to try.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘Free and Equal,’ by Daniel Chandler

Wednesday, May 8, 2024 - 5:06am
By Jennifer Szalai
The economist and philosopher Daniel Chandler thinks so. In “Free and Equal,” he makes a vigorous case for adopting the liberal political framework laid out by John Rawls in the 1970s.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Uncovering What Audubon Missed, and What He Made Up

Wednesday, May 8, 2024 - 5:05am
By Benjamin P. Russell
In “The Birds That Audubon Missed,” Kenn Kaufman delves into the fierce, at times unethical, competition among early American ornithologists.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


New Science Fiction and Fantasy

Wednesday, May 8, 2024 - 5:01am
By Amal El-Mohtar
New books by H.A. Clarke, Robert Jackson Bennett and Micaiah Johnson.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Lesley Hazleton, Writer Who Tackled Religion and Fast Cars, Dies at 78

Tuesday, May 7, 2024 - 5:14pm
By Penelope Green
Born in England and raised Jewish, she became agnostic, writing books about her own lack of faith, the prophet Muhammad and her time as a car columnist.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


'Long Island' renders bare the universality of longing

Tuesday, May 7, 2024 - 3:03pm
By Heller McAlpin

In a heartrending follow-up to his beloved 2009 novel, Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín's handles uncertainties and moral conundrums with exquisite delicacy, zigzagging through time to a devastating climax.

Source: NPR Book Reviews


Robert Downey Jr. to Make Broadway Debut in Ayad Akhtar Play

Tuesday, May 7, 2024 - 12:00pm
By Michael Paulson
The Oscar-winning actor will star as an A.I.-curious author in “McNeal,” starting performances in September at Lincoln Center Theater.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


In Neil Gaiman’s ‘Silver Age,’ Miracleman Is a Hero Out of Time

Tuesday, May 7, 2024 - 6:21am
By Sam Thielman
In an era of endlessly safe comic universes, “Miracleman: The Silver Age” goes another way with the return of a godlike hero from a world more like ours.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


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