This Thoughtful, Profound Thriller Centers On Identity And Its Many Layers
Amanda Jayatissa's My Sweet Girl is a twisty psychological thriller — but also a nuanced examination of identity as its Sri Lankan American heroine struggles with a murder that may not have happened.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
They Survived, They Recovered (Mostly) ... What Next?
Three new memoirs traverse the rocky terrain between illness and everyday life.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Rosamund Pike Reads Paula Hawkins; and Other Audiobooks to Make Your Head Spin
A murder mystery on a London houseboat, a 16th-century Pacific voyage, and a deep dive into humans’ relationships with animals.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Optimism Rears Its Sunny Head on the Best-Seller List
Four new titles either allude to the elusive commodity or grab it by the shoulders and pin it onto the page.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Anderson Cooper Wishes His Parents and Truman Capote Could Reconcile Over Dinner
“They stopped speaking to him after he wrote some pretty cruel stuff about my mom in a story published in Esquire in 1975. I wouldn’t want Truman to stay very long though, and he couldn’t have any alcohol. Actually let’s make it Truman circa 1966, not the bloated Truman of 1975.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Why Does Every Company Now Want to Be a Platform?
In “The Platform Delusion,” Jonathan Knee takes apart the magical aura that surrounds one of Silicon Valley’s biggest conceptual exports.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Atrocities Of 'Conquistadores' Take Shape In New History By Mexican-Born Author
Historian Fernando Cervantes marshals an enormous array of primary and secondary sources to tell the story of the decades that followed Christopher Columbus' arrival to the New World.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
Colson Whitehead's Latest Gives Readers A Half-Crook You'll Wholly Love
The versatile novelist moves away from the heavier themes that won him a brace of Pulitzer Prizes in Harlem Shuffle, a heist caper starring a mostly-upright furniture salesman with a criminal streak.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
Newly Published, From James Baldwin to a Life-Changing Dog
A selection of books published this week.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
‘Fuzz,’ by Mary Roach: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “Fuzz,” by Mary Roach
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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