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Read Like the Wind: Bill Cunningham’s Photos and Gwendolyn Brooks’s Life

Saturday, May 25, 2024 - 7:50am
A Gwendolyn Brooks biography; a Bill Cunningham photo collection.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


The Women of Greek Myths Are Finally Talking Back

Saturday, May 25, 2024 - 5:02am
By Alexandra Alter
Novels that take on the marginalized or vilified women in mythology are flooding bookstores and reigniting questions about who gets to tell these stories, and how.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘A Walk in the Park,’ by Kevin Fedarko

Saturday, May 25, 2024 - 5:01am
By Blair Braverman
In “A Walk in the Park,” Kevin Fedarko recounts a trek-of-a-lifetime that becomes a nightmare in one of America’s most stunning sites. At least he can laugh about it.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘The Safekeep,’ by Yael van der Wouden

Saturday, May 25, 2024 - 5:01am
By Lori Soderlind
An unlikely romance blooms in Yael van der Wouden’s tricky, remarkable novel, “The Safekeep.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


10 Artists on Living and Creating Through Grief

Saturday, May 25, 2024 - 5:01am
By Dina Gachman and Daniel Arnold
Jesmyn Ward, Bridget Everett, Sigrid Nunez and seven other writers, actors, musicians and filmmakers talk to us about grief — how they’ve experienced it and how it has changed them.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Why Are Divorce Memoirs Still Stuck in the 1960s?

Saturday, May 25, 2024 - 5:00am
By Sarah Menkedick
Recent best sellers have reached for a familiar feminist credo, one that renounces domestic life for career success.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Caleb Carr, Author of Dark Histories, Dies at 68

Friday, May 24, 2024 - 3:28pm
By Penelope Green
His own dark history prompted him to write about and investigate the roots of violence, notably in his best-selling novel “The Alienist.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


The Best Books of 2024 (So Far)

Friday, May 24, 2024 - 1:44pm
By The New York Times Books Staff
The nonfiction and novels we can’t stop thinking about.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


'The Last Murder at the End of the World' is a story of survival and memory

Friday, May 24, 2024 - 12:42pm

Stuart Turton’s bizarre whodunit also works as a science fiction allegory full of mystery that contemplates the end of the world and what it means to be human.

Source: NPR Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘The Editor,’ by Sara B. Franklin

Friday, May 24, 2024 - 12:00pm
By Alexandra Jacobs
In “The Editor,” Sara B. Franklin argues that Judith Jones was a “publishing legend,” transcending industry sexism to champion cookbooks — and Anne Frank.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


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