In Literary Fiction, Are Capital-P Politics Always at Play?
Nawaaz Ahmed’s debut, “Radiant Fugitives,” sets an intimate family story against the Obama-era backdrop it can’t escape.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
New in Paperback: ‘Aftershocks’ and ‘Here We Are’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
The Appalachian Trail, the 1980 Summer Olympics Boycott and Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
The American Resistance Leader Executed on Hitler’s Orders
In the 1930s, Rebecca Donner’s great-great-aunt Mildred Harnack helped organize a clandestine circle of anti-Nazi resisters in Berlin. In “All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days,” Donner tells Harnack’s story.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
From Anthony Veasna So, Glimpses of Cambodian Life in California
The author set many of the stories in his posthumously published debut, “Afterparties,” in and around his native Stockton.
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
A ‘Quiet Zone’ Without Wi-Fi or Cellphones Should Be an Idyll. But Is It?
In his new book, Stephen Kurczy ventures to a town in West Virginia that is ostensibly off the electronic grid and he finds a more complicated reality.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Having A Conversation With Loss And Grief In 'Waiting For The Waters To Rise'
Maryse Condé's new novel follws a lonely man, an obstetrician who adopts an orphaned baby girl and tries to find her family — it's an examination of loss and grief on a personal and national level.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
Farmer Offers Stark Time-Lapse Portrait Of His Family's Land Over A Lifetime
James Rebanks' new book Pastoral Song urgently conveys how the drive for cheap, mass-produced food has impoverished both small farmers and the soil, threatening humanity's future.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
A Memoir of Pretending to See
In “Blind Man’s Bluff,” James Tate Hill opens up about the measures he took to avoid admitting that he had lost his eyesight.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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