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Fascinating, Mysterious 'Intimacies' Doesn't Let Readers Get Close Enough

Thursday, July 22, 2021 - 5:00am
By Leland Cheuk

Katie Kitamura's new novel follows an unnamed woman working as a translator at The Hague who works with war criminals — but can readers really know a narrator who remains resolutely unknown?

(Image credit: Riverhead Books)

Source: NPR Book Reviews


The Promise and Tragedy of a Utopian Community, as Seen by One of Its Own

Thursday, July 22, 2021 - 5:00am
By Amy Waldman
“Better to Have Gone,” by Akash Kapur, recounts the haunting, heartbreaking history of Auroville, an intentional community in southern India where he and his wife were raised.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Linda Dave Turned the Scorned Wife Into a ‘Hero’

Thursday, July 22, 2021 - 5:00am
By Lauren Christensen
In her best-selling thriller, “The Last Thing He Told Me,” a Silicon Valley wife learns the truth about her missing husband.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Eddie Glaude Jr., an Expert on James Baldwin, Reveals His Favorite Baldwin Book

Thursday, July 22, 2021 - 5:00am
Glaude, the author of “Begin Again,” says that “No Name in the Street” (1972) “tries to offer an account of what happened between Little Rock, Dr. King’s assassination and the emergence of Black Power. Trauma and wound saturate his sentences, and his memory fails him in places. It is a masterpiece at the level of form and substance.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Readers Have Some Thoughts About Recent Reviews and Essays

Thursday, July 22, 2021 - 5:00am
Here’s a peek into the Book Review’s mailbag.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


In 'Notes From The Burning Age,' We're The Ones On Fire

Wednesday, July 21, 2021 - 5:00am
By Jason Sheehan

Claire North's new Notes from the Burning Age is set far in the future — but the titular burning age is our own, an age of waste and exploitation from which only fragments of knowledge remain.

(Image credit: Orbit Books)

Source: NPR Book Reviews


To Battle Climate Change, Begin With Your Air-Conditioner

Tuesday, July 20, 2021 - 3:57pm
By Hope Jahren
In “After Cooling,” Eric Dean Wilson explores the ways that temperature-controlled environments contribute to the climate crisis.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Michael Wolff's Third Strike At Trump White House Has Hits And Misses

Tuesday, July 20, 2021 - 11:40am
By Ron Elving

The author has gifts as a writer: a novelistic eye for scene and detail, an ear for realistic dialogue. His story keeps moving, free of constraints common to courtroom lawyers or newspaper reporters.

(Image credit: Henry Holt & Co. )

Source: NPR Book Reviews


New & Noteworthy, From El Chapo to a Holocaust Survivor’s Art

Tuesday, July 20, 2021 - 11:01am
A selection of recent titles of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Echoes Across Centuries Are Reminders That The Next Quarantine Is A Matter Of When

Tuesday, July 20, 2021 - 8:31am
By Annalisa Quinn

There's something that feels impossible about leaving behind the place in which we slunk our way through the last year plus. Until Proven Safe takes us to the places others lingered through time.

(Image credit: MCD)

Source: NPR Book Reviews


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