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With ‘Paper Doll,’ Dylan Mulvaney Wrote the Book on Girlhood. Now What?

Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 5:00am
By Maggie Lange
Her bubbly video diaries about her gender transition were once a study in oversharing. Now on the other side of a nationwide boycott, she sees the value in keeping some things to herself.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


In ‘The Years,’ an Abortion Scene Is Causing Audience Members to Pass Out

Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 12:01am
By Alex Marshall
“The Years,” running in London, dramatizes a woman’s life from teenage thrills to later-life sex. One intense scene is causing audience members to pass out.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘Jane Austen’s Bookshelf,’ by Rebecca Romney

Monday, February 17, 2025 - 5:01am
By Sadie Stein
In “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf,” a rare-book collector sets out to “investigate” a group of overlooked female writers.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘Snowy Day and Other Stories,’ by Lee Chang-dong

Monday, February 17, 2025 - 5:00am
By Camille Bromley
Set in 1980s South Korea, Lee Chang-dong’s book “Snowy Day and Other Stories” hangs in the shadow of the violent Gwangju massacre.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir,’ by Edmund White

Sunday, February 16, 2025 - 5:00am
By Alexandra Jacobs
Edmund White seems to hold nothing back in his raunchy, stylish, intimate new memoir, “The Loves of My Life.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


A Tiny Press Took a Big Risk on Experimental Books. It Paid Off.

Saturday, February 15, 2025 - 5:02am
By Alexandra Alter
The British publisher Tilted Axis specialized in innovative translated literature. It won them major awards. Now they’re coming to the U.S.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘Jesus Wept,’ by Philip Shenon

Saturday, February 15, 2025 - 5:00am
By Mary Jo McConahay
Philip Shenon’s “Jesus Wept” looks at the church since World War II, with particular focus on the clerical abuse crisis and the ideological battles that followed the Second Vatican Council.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘Nesting,’ by Roisín O’Donnell

Saturday, February 15, 2025 - 5:00am
By Katie J.M. Baker
The heroine of Roisín O’Donnell’s novel “Nesting” is a young mother desperate to escape her husband’s physical and emotional control.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Adapting the Twists and Turns of ‘Conclave’

Friday, February 14, 2025 - 5:03am
By Tina Antolini, Alex Barron, Wendy Dorr, Daniel Ramirez, Elisheba Ittoop and Gilbert Cruz
How the novel became an Oscar-nominated film.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘A Fearless Eye: The Photography of Barbara Ramos’

Friday, February 14, 2025 - 5:01am
By Erica Ackerberg
Newly published, long hidden photographs by Barbara Ramos capture life in the city in the 1960s and 70s.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


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