For These Comic Artists, Heritage And Folklore Are Superpowers
A wave of new comics creators are drawing on their heritage, culture and folklore to create fantastical worlds and superpowered characters — something that wasn't possible until very recently.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
Stories Spanning Countries and Generations, by Jo Lloyd, Yoon Choi and Hilma Wolitzer
New fiction about Korean immigrants in America, 1960s New York housewives and aging butterfly collectors exploring the world one last time.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Before She Loved Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir Loved Zaza
With “Inseparable,” a novel she wrote in 1954 and which is now being published for the first time, the celebrated French philosopher recounts, in fictional guise, her relationship with Élisabeth Lacoin (“Zaza”), a beloved schoolmate who died tragically young.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Ezra Pound, Air Conditioning’s Effects on Global Warming and Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Take A Magical Mystery Tour With This Chinese Comic Artist
"If I could put it into words, I wouldn't be drawing it," says one of the characters in Zuo Ma's surreal graphic novel Night Bus, a collection of stories that drives through every literary boundary.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
An Afghan Author On Losing Her Homeland — For The Second Time
"It is too cruel to ask if it hurts more the first or second time a homeland is lost," says Afghan American author Nadia Hashimi, whose parents are from Kabul. "I know one never becomes numb to it."
(Image credit: Zayla Amini)
Source: NPR Book Reviews
What Was on the Best-Seller List 20 Years Ago?
A peek into the archives reveals that popular books from early September 2001 were both prescient and timeless.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Why Maggie Nelson Is Drawn to Certain Autobiographies
“I have a soft spot for books by tough, radically honest women with an uncommon antenna for magic, language and landscape.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Newly Published, From the World Trade Center to a Cheeto-Loving Crow
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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