By the Book Interview With Judi Dench
“They’re snapshots of the past: first-night gifts, holidays abroad, memories of lost friends and loved ones,” the award-winning actress says. Her latest, written with Brendan O’Hea, is “Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Cass Elliot’s Death Spawned a Horrible Myth. She Deserves Better.
The Mamas & the Papas singer was known for her wit, her voice and her skill as a connector. For 50 years, a rumor has overshadowed her legacy.
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He Sang ‘What a Fool Believes.’ But Michael McDonald Is in on the Joke.
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
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’?
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
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.
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Uncovering What Audubon Missed, and What He Made Up
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
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
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
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
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