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New Books About Cartoons That Will Bring You Back to Childhood

Friday, April 4, 2025 - 5:00am
By James Sturm
Mine came flooding back as I read Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud’s “The Cartoonists Club” and Jerry Craft and Kwame Alexander’s “J vs. K.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘Children of Radium,’ by Joe Dunthorne

Friday, April 4, 2025 - 5:00am
By Emma Brockes
In “Children of Radium,” Joe Dunthorne explores the absurdity of family histories and his own clan’s complicated past.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Books About Cartooning by Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, Jerry Craft and Kwame Alexander

Friday, April 4, 2025 - 5:00am
By James Sturm
Mine came flooding back as I read Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud’s “The Cartoonists Club” and Jerry Craft and Kwame Alexander’s “J vs. K.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


How Christopher Lasch’s ‘The Revolt of the Elites’ Anticipated Trumpism

Friday, April 4, 2025 - 5:00am
By Alexander Nazaryan
Christopher Lasch’s “The Revolt of the Elites” anticipated the resentments of ordinary Americans that have led inexorably to Trumpism.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘John & Paul,’ by Ian Leslie

Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 4:30pm
By T Bone Burnett
T Bone Burnett reviews Ian Leslie’s “John & Paul,” which explores the partnership of “two extraordinarily gifted young men.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


7 New Books We Recommend This Week

Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 1:00pm
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


In ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray,’ Sarah Snook Goes Digital

Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 5:01am
By Alexis Soloski
Sarah Snook, camera operators and other crew members bring to life multitudes on Broadway via an elaborate synthesis of live action, live video and recorded video.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


What’s His Age Again? Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus (Now 53) Looks Back.

Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 5:00am
By Mark Yarm and Adali Schell
The band’s singer and bassist recounts his personal struggles and the dramatic ins and outs of the trio’s history in a new memoir, “Fahrenheit-182.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Interview: Reginald Dwayne Betts on His New Poetry Collection, ‘Doggerel,’ and His Reading Life

Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 5:00am
It’s called “Doggerel” for a reason: “These are poems that speak to everyone, that pun and riff and make fun of themselves a bit as they reveal something about the world.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


10 books we're looking forward to this spring

Wednesday, April 2, 2025 - 8:01am
By Andrew Limbong

A famed graphic novelist returns! A Southern-gothic crime-thriller inspired by The Godfather! An extremely in depth biography of Mark Twain! And more!

Source: NPR Book Reviews


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