Interview: Kara Walker on Her Collaboration With Jamaica Kincaid
Audiobooks have let the artist “stay invested in stories while working with my hands.” Her new project: illustrating Jamaica Kincaid’s “An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
A Leading Free Expression Group Is Roiled by Dissent Over Gaza
As it cancels events amid criticism of its response to the Israel-Hamas war, PEN America faces questions about when an organization devoted to free speech for all should take sides.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Two new novels investigate what makes magic, what is real and imagined
Both of these novels, Pages of Mourning and The Cemetery of Untold Stories, from an emerging writer and a long-celebrated one, respectively, walk an open road of remembering love, grief, and fate.
Source: NPR Book Reviews
Book Review: ‘Massacre in the Clouds,’ by Kim A. Wagner
In a new book, the historian Kim A. Wagner investigates the slaughter by U.S. troops of nearly 1,000 people in the Philippines in 1906 — an atrocity long overlooked in this country.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Book Review: ‘Henry Henry,’ by Allen Bratton
Allen Bratton’s novel transforms the rise of Henry V into a contemporary story about a brash gay man grappling with abuse and guilt.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Book Review: ‘Our Kindred Creatures,’ by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy
“Our Kindred Creatures” details the rise, and contradictions, of the animal welfare movement.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Alice Munro, Nobel Laureate and Master of the Short Story, Dies at 92
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
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'
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
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
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