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Book Review: Children’s Science Fiction Novels by Donna Barba Higuera, Patricia Forde and Jeanne DuPrau

Friday, November 3, 2023 - 5:01am
By Rick Yancey
Jeanne DuPrau’s “Project F,” Patricia Forde’s “The Girl Who Fell to Earth” and Donna Barba Higuera’s “Alebrijes” answer the question, Could this be the beginning of the end?
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Audiobook Review: ‘The Motherlode,’ by Clover Hope

Friday, November 3, 2023 - 5:00am
By Evan Nicole Brown
On the genre’s 50th anniversary, “The Motherlode” honors contributions by the women, like Salt-N-Pepa, Roxanne Shanté and Megan Thee Stallion, who’ve made it what it is today.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


9 New Books We Recommend This Week

Thursday, November 2, 2023 - 4:09pm
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Celebrating Literature That ‘Brings the World Close’

Thursday, November 2, 2023 - 12:31pm
By Robert Ito
Words Without Borders, a magazine dedicated to literature in translation, is turning 20 at a fraught time. How to celebrate words when bombs are dropping?
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


'The Reformatory' tells a story of ghosts, abuse, racism — and sibling love

Thursday, November 2, 2023 - 12:09pm
By Gabino Iglesias

Tananarive Due's haunting, unflinching novel delves deep into the realities of the Jim Crow South and the very real horrors that took place at Florida reformatory schools in the 1950s.

(Image credit: Gallery/Saga Press)

Source: NPR Book Reviews


Who Is Hannah Grace? And Why Won’t She Show Her Face?

Thursday, November 2, 2023 - 5:01am
By Elisabeth Egan
The author of “Icebreaker” and “Wildfire” has her own reasons for avoiding the limelight.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Poem: […]

Thursday, November 2, 2023 - 5:00am
In this poem from a Palestinian American writer, absence becomes atmosphere.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘Same Bed Different Dreams,’ by Ed Park

Thursday, November 2, 2023 - 5:00am
By Hamilton Cain
“Same Bed Different Dreams” is the rare sophomore novel that has the wild, freewheeling ambition of a debut.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Interview: Jeff Tweedy

Thursday, November 2, 2023 - 5:00am
“I read them the way that people surf the internet today, maybe,” says the Wilco frontman, whose new memoir is “World Within a Song.” “So I know everything.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Celebrity Narrators: The ‘Matchmaking’ Behind Britney Spears and Michelle Williams

Wednesday, November 1, 2023 - 6:47pm
By Frank Rojas
Snippets of Michelle Williams’s narration of Britney Spears’s new memoir have proved explosively popular online. But what goes into selecting a celebrity reader for an audiobook?
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


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