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Talking to Leigh Bardugo, Fantasy Superstar

Friday, May 10, 2024 - 4:36pm
The best-selling author of dark fantasy novels for Y.A. and adult audiences discusses her career and her stand-alone new historical fantasy, “The Familiar.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


A 19th-century bookbinder struggles with race and identity in 'The Library Thief'

Friday, May 10, 2024 - 12:50pm
By Keishel Williams

In her debut novel taking place in the Victorian era, Kuchenga Shenjé explores the expectations that arise when society demands that every group be neatly categorized.

Source: NPR Book Reviews


Book Club: ‘James,’ by Percival Everett

Friday, May 10, 2024 - 11:51am
By MJ Franklin
For The Book Review Podcast’s May book club, we’ll talk about “James,” Percival Everett’s radical reimagining of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Bans Are Surging in Florida. So Lauren Groff Opened a Bookstore

Friday, May 10, 2024 - 5:03am
By Alexandra Alter
It’s called The Lynx, after the wildcat native to the state. “We wanted something a little fierce,” she said.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘Corky Lee’s Asian America’

Friday, May 10, 2024 - 5:01am
By Wilson Wong
A new book from the legendary lensman Corky Lee captures both struggle and celebration across several decades of Asian American life.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


How a Novelist Became a Pop Star

Friday, May 10, 2024 - 5:01am
By Emily Lordi and Philip Cheung
In fiction, Ali Sethi wrote about being queer in Pakistan. Now he’s singing his story.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘The Wildcat Behind Glass,’ by Alki Zei. Translated by Karen Emmerich.

Friday, May 10, 2024 - 5:00am
By Adam Gopnik
Alki Zei’s Greek classic, set in the birthplace of democracy in the mid-1930s, feels eerily relevant in today’s America.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Bernard Pivot, Host of Influential French TV Show on Books, Dies at 89

Thursday, May 9, 2024 - 6:27pm
By Adam Nossiter
For 15 years, French viewers watched Mr. Pivot on his weekly show, “Apostrophes,” to decide what to read next.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


6 New Books We Recommend This Week

Thursday, May 9, 2024 - 4:09pm
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Silence and secrets permeate an immigrant enclave in Colm Tóibín's 'Long Island'

Thursday, May 9, 2024 - 1:27pm
By Maureen Corrigan

Tóibín's latest, a sequel to his 2009 novel, Brooklyn, is a devastating portrait of an Irish immigrant whose Italian American husband is expecting a baby with another woman.

Source: NPR Book Reviews


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