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The Best Crime Novels of 2024 (So Far)

Wednesday, May 22, 2024 - 5:00am

By Sarah Weinman

Looking for some murder and mayhem (fictional, of course)? Here are the best crime novels of 2024 so far.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

Jenny Erpenbeck’s ‘Kairos’ Wins the International Booker Prize

Tuesday, May 21, 2024 - 5:29pm

By Alex Marshall

Translated by Michael Hofmann, it’s the first novel originally written in German to win the major literary award.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

Prize-winning Bulgarian writer brings 'The Physics of Sorrow' to U.S. readers

Tuesday, May 21, 2024 - 1:24pm

By Martha Anne Toll

Writer Georgi Gospodinov won the 2023 International Booker Prize for his book Time Shelter. The Physics of Sorrow, an earlier novel, now has an English translation by Angela Rodel.

Source: NPR Book Reviews

Book Review: ‘América del Norte,’ by Nicolás Medina Mora

Tuesday, May 21, 2024 - 11:51am

By Zachary Lazar

In a debut novel, history and family legacy — going back to the conquistadors — confound a man’s search for identity.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

20 new books hitting shelves this summer that our critics can't wait to read

Tuesday, May 21, 2024 - 8:17am

By Meghan Collins Sullivan

We asked our book critics what titles they are most looking forward to this summer. Their picks range from memoirs to sci-fi and fantasy to translations, love stories and everything in between.

Source: NPR Book Reviews

Book Review: ‘Butcher,’ by Joyce Carol Oates

Tuesday, May 21, 2024 - 5:04am

By Daphne Merkin

Through the lens of a 19th-century doctor, Joyce Carol Oates explores gothic medical horror.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

Sebastian Junger Is Reporting Live From the Brink of Death

Tuesday, May 21, 2024 - 5:03am

By Elisabeth Egan

In his new memoir, Junger, the veteran journalist, makes sense of — and an uneasy peace with — an experience few have survived.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

Book Review: ‘In Tongues,’ by Thomas Grattan

Tuesday, May 21, 2024 - 5:02am

By Rumaan Alam

Thomas Grattan’s queer coming-of-age novel “In Tongues” unfurls in the Manhattan art world at the turn of the millennium.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

Penguin Random House Dismisses Two of Its Top Publishers

Monday, May 20, 2024 - 3:47pm

By Alexandra Alter and Elizabeth A. Harris

The departures of Reagan Arthur, of Alfred A. Knopf, and Lisa Lucas, of Pantheon and Schocken, in a restructuring came as a surprise to many in the company.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

Kevin Kwan, Author of ‘Crazy Rich Asians,’ Talks About His New Novel

Monday, May 20, 2024 - 11:00am

By Elisabeth Egan

Kevin Kwan left Singapore’s opulent, status-obsessed, upper crust when he was 11. He’s still writing about it.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

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