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Talking ‘Dune’: Book and Movies

Friday, March 15, 2024 - 2:52pm
The Times’s critic Alissa Wilkinson discusses Frank Herbert’s classic science fiction novel and Denis Villeneuve’s film adaptations.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Authors Withdraw From PEN World Voices Festival Over Its Response to Gaza War

Friday, March 15, 2024 - 2:09pm
By Alexandra Alter
More than a dozen authors, including Lorrie Moore, Naomi Klein, Michelle Alexander, Hisham Matar and Isabella Hammad, have signed a protest letter that announced their withdrawal.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Welcome to the London Book Fair, Where Everyone Knows Their Place

Friday, March 15, 2024 - 12:28pm
By Rosa Lyster
If you want to understand the power map of the publishing industry, just look at this event’s floor plan.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


In 'The Manicurist's Daughter,' a refugee family goes on after its matriarch's death

Friday, March 15, 2024 - 12:11pm
By Thúy Đinh

Author Susan Lieu transforms her acclaimed 2019 one-woman show — 140 LBS: How Beauty Killed My Mother -- into a memoir of her family after the death of her mother due to botched plastic surgery.

Source: NPR Book Reviews


‘The Boxcar Children,’ by Gertrude Chandler Warner, Turns 100

Friday, March 15, 2024 - 5:00am
By Anna Holmes
Gertrude Chandler Warner’s “The Boxcar Children,” celebrating its 100th year, depicts the delights of concocting scrumptious meals.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘Annie Bot,’ by Sierra Greer

Friday, March 15, 2024 - 5:00am
By Lydia Kiesling
Sierra Greer’s debut novel, “Annie Bot,” explores questions of misogyny and toxic masculinity by following a pleasure robot that begins to develop her own consciousness.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


‘Rear Window’ Redux, With a Blind Girl Twist

Friday, March 15, 2024 - 5:00am
By Charlie Lee
In Armando Lucas Correa’s thriller “The Silence in Her Eyes,” vision impairment only enhances a young woman’s sense of neighborly discord — and danger is in the air.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Dan Wakefield, Multifaceted Writer on a Spiritual Journey, Dies at 91

Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 3:31pm
By David Stout
He was prolific and acclaimed, producing novels, journalism, essays, criticism, screenplays and, in a memoir, an account of his path from faith to atheism and back again.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


7 New Books We Recommend This Week

Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 12:48pm
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


The stories in 'Green Frog' are wildly entertaining and wonderfully diverse

Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 6:00am
By Gabino Iglesias

Gina Chung's collection is a fantastic medley of short stories that dance between literary fiction, fable, Korean folklore, and science fiction — and one that's full of emotional intelligence.

Source: NPR Book Reviews


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