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A visual feast: 6 favorite coffee table and gift books of 2022

Saturday, November 26, 2022 - 7:00am
By Heller McAlpin

This year's selection of visual delights highlights the work of artists and designers who have made an enduring impact, including Lucian Freud, Elsa Schiaparelli and Patti Smith.

(Image credit: Meghan Collins Sullivan/NPR)

Source: NPR Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘Uphill,’ by Jemele Hill; ‘Home Bound,’ by Vanessa A. Bee; ‘Slow Cooked,’ by Marion Nestle; ‘Making a Scene,’ by Constance Wu

Saturday, November 26, 2022 - 5:00am
By Rajpreet Heir
From a sports anchor to a housing policy expert to a major movie star, these new autobiographies double as manifestoes.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘Last Day in Lagos,’ by Marilyn Nance

Saturday, November 26, 2022 - 5:00am
By Caleb Azumah Nelson
Over a month spent at FESTAC ’77, the photographer captured the intimacy of Pan-African celebration.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


9 New Books We Recommend This Week

Thursday, November 24, 2022 - 11:08am
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


9 New Books We Recommend This Week

Thursday, November 24, 2022 - 10:00am
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Douglas Brinkley Would Like to Invite Thoreau to Dinner

Thursday, November 24, 2022 - 5:00am
The historian, whose new book is “Silent Spring Revolution,” would also invite E.O. Wilson and Rachel Carson: “We could talk about the 11,000 bird species the Cornell Lab of Ornithology is helping to conserve in the face of climate change.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Write Every Day? Tracy Deonn Recommends Thinking Instead.

Thursday, November 24, 2022 - 5:00am
By Elisabeth Egan
Before she put pen to paper — or fingers to keyboard — this fantasy novelist spent a long time getting to know her protagonist.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Bringing Down Harvey Weinstein

Wednesday, November 23, 2022 - 9:32pm
The Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor talk about their book ‘She Said,’ and Neal Gabler discusses the first volume of his Ted Kennedy biography.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Children’s Picture Books About Boats

Wednesday, November 23, 2022 - 4:55pm
By Peter Behrens
Four books show kids the infinite joys of building, sailing, restoring and just plain floating a boat.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


New Crime and Mystery Novels

Wednesday, November 23, 2022 - 4:00pm
By Sarah Weinman
In Stephen Spotswood’s new novel, “Secrets Typed in Blood” — set in 1940s New York City — a pulp magazine writer claims that a killer is copying crimes from her stories.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


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