'Anatomy' is a gothic love story stirring up mystery and medicine
In Dana Schwartz's novel, it's 1817 and Lady Hazel, set to marry a cousin, just wants to study medicine. She meets a boy who helps her — and the journey is an adventure from there.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
A Deer in the Headlights: ‘Bambi’ Reconsidered
As a new translation makes clear, this tale of survival, written between the wars by an Austro-Hungarian Jew, wasn’t intended for young children.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
'Honor' is a searing meditation on the meaning of dignity in a dehumanizing world
Thrity Umrigar's novel is about India's humanitarian crisis — with its depictions of misogyny and scenes of public shaming, mistreatment and torture — but it's also about a transformative journey.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
A true crime writer struggles with his responsibility to the victims in 'Devil House'
Novelist John Darnielle — also singer-songwriter with the Mountain Goats — has a hero who wants to honor the victims he's writing about but doesn't much like them.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
It Started as a Romantic Idyll. It Ended With a Stack of Corpses.
In “Reckless Girls,” by Rachel Hawkins, a vacation on a remote atoll in the South Pacific goes very, very wrong.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
The Lyric Decision: How Poets Figure Out What Comes Next
There are endless ways to write a poem, but Rilke offered one foolproof formula that echoes throughout several recent collections.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Piecing Together God’s Body, From Head to Toe
In “God: An Anatomy,” Francesca Stavrakopoulou attempts to understand divinity as our ancestors did, as having a corporeal presence.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Book Review: ‘South to America,’ by Imani Perry
In “South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation,” Imani Perry straddles genres to find her own — and our — South.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
It’s Just a Game. Or Is It?
In “Seven Games: A Human History,” Oliver Roeder presents a study of checkers, backgammon, chess, Go, poker, Scrabble and bridge — and asks why we play.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
A Shipwreck Leads to a Reckoning
In “The Last Slave Ship,” Ben Raines tells the story of the Clotilda, the founding of Africatown, Ala., and a history that wouldn’t stay buried.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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