In 'The Vegan,' a refreshing hedge-fund protagonist
Andrew Lipstein achieves the difficult feat of realistically animating a hedge fund manager who talks and moves as real hedge fund managers might, but who is compelling and not overly alienating.
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Book Review: ‘Nineteen Claws and a Blackbird,’ by Agustina Bazterrica; ‘Zero-Sum,’ by Joyce Carol Oates; ‘The Best Possible Experience,’ by Nishanth Injam; ‘Emergency,’ by Kathleen Alcott
New short fiction by Agustina Bazterrica, Joyce Carol Oates, Nishanth Injam and Kathleen Alcott.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Milan Kundera, Czech Literary Star, Dies at 94
Mr. Kundera, the author of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” was known for sexually charged novels that captured the suffocating absurdity of life in his native Czechoslovakia.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
John le Carré’s Best Books
His clever, melancholic mind produced some of the most enduring heroes in spy fiction. Here are his best books.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
An Exiled Publisher Creates a ‘Brotherhood Across Tibetans’
Buchung Sonam co-founded a press to nurture the writing of Tibetans, helping provide through literature a sense of home for a stateless population.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
John le Carré’s Best Books
His clever, melancholic mind produced some of the most enduring heroes in spy fiction. Here are his best books.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Book Review: ‘Blight,’ by Emily Monosson
“Blight,” by Emily Monosson, chronicles the threats fungal pathogens pose to humans, animals and plants as the world’s most devastating agents of disease.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Book Review: ‘Jews in the Garden,’ by Judy Rakowsky
In “Jews in the Garden,” the journalist Judy Rakowsky helps a relative uncover the truth of what happened to their family during World War II.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Book Review: ‘Directions to Myself,’ by Heidi Julavits; ‘Lesbian Love Story,’ by Amelia Possanza; ‘Strong Female Character,’ by Fern Brady
New books by Heidi Julavits, Amelia Possanza and Fern Brady explore a future of self-discovery by mining the past.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Book Review: ‘Not Even the Dead,’ by Juan Gómez Bárcena
“Not Even the Dead,” a novel by Juan Gómez Bárcena, is a transhistorical epic with echoes of Cormac McCarthy and Joseph Conrad.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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