Dive in: 'Do Tell' and 'The Stolen Coast' are perfect summer escapes
Lindsay Lynch's luscious debut, Do Tell, is set in Hollywood's Golden Age. Dwyer Murphy's The Stolen Coast is a moody tale of a lawyer who makes his money ferrying people on the run into new lives.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Roald Dahl Museum Calls Author’s Racism ‘Undeniable and Indelible’
A museum in England devoted to the best-selling children’s author, who died in 1990, condemned his antisemitic views.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
When It Comes to Death, Hadley Vlahos Tells It Like It Is
A new book by a hospice nurse helps readers wrap their minds around — and perhaps make peace with — the great unknown.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Book Review: ‘King of the Armadillos,’ by Wendy Chin-Tanner
In her debut novel, “King of the Armadillos,” Wendy Chin-Tanner explores immigration, illness and opportunity through the story of a teenage immigrant who is diagnosed with Hansen’s disease.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Book Review: ‘The Nenoquich,’ by Henry Bean
Henry Bean’s first novel, reissued as “The Nenoquich,” follows a young writer in Berkeley through a transformative affair.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Interview: Richard Russo Misses the Purity of Childhood Reading
“When you become a writer, you inevitably lose your innocence as a reader,” says the Pulitzer-winning novelist, whose new book is “Somebody’s Fool.” “It’s like being given the underground tour of Disney World. Some of the magic dissipates.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Poem: The Desert
Brandon Shimoda wrote this short poem after encountering a lost migrant in the Arizona desert.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
In 'Silver Nitrate,' a cursed film propels 2 childhood friends to the edges of reality
Set in Mexico City in 1993, Silvia Moreno-Garcia's latest novel is steeped in cinematic history and lore, as well an eerie well of myth that recalls H.P. Lovecraft, albeit in a more progressive form.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
Sultry New Romance Books
The tropes may be familiar in these romance novels — fake dating, falling for a celebrity — but the books themselves are fresh and beguiling.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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