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Bill Bratton Doesn’t Root for the Bad Guys

Thursday, June 10, 2021 - 7:22am
A fan of crime novels, the former police commissioner loves Michael Connelly’s hero Harry Bosch — but adds, “I don’t have a favorite villain.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


This Family Saga Finds Grace And Beauty In Ordinary Lives, Fully Lived

Thursday, June 10, 2021 - 6:00am
By Jason Sheehan

Simon Van Booy's new novel Night Came With Many Stars follows several generations of a Kentucky family, their crossroads and choices, their curses and hard memories, their luck and their chances.

(Image credit: David R. Godine, Publisher)

Source: NPR Book Reviews


John Green is Not Writing in Code

Thursday, June 10, 2021 - 5:00am
By Elisabeth Egan
The author of “The Fault in Our Stars” is back on the best seller list with his first book for adults. This time, he’s telling readers who he is.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Was the Space Program Worth the Cost?

Wednesday, June 9, 2021 - 1:00pm
By Mark Atwood Lawrence
Jeff Shesol’s “Mercury Rising” explores the careers of John Kennedy and John Glenn as a way to cut through the rhetoric of space exploration.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


'We Need New Stories' Asks: Why Are People Prone To Believing The Largest Of Lies?

Wednesday, June 9, 2021 - 10:48am
By Jason Heller

Author Nesrine Malik is reclaiming the terms of defense against ignorance and bigotry, ones that she says have become rote in the mouths of some and insults in the mouths of others.

(Image credit: W.W. Norton & Co.)

Source: NPR Book Reviews


Letters Reveal Author's Strength In A World Of Destructive Noise

Wednesday, June 9, 2021 - 6:30am
By Hope Wabuke

Akwaeke Emezi's Dear Senthuran is a story of transcendence over violence that has marked their lived experience, told through letters to friends, lovers, and public figures — some they've never met.

(Image credit: Riverhead Books)

Source: NPR Book Reviews


Still Don't Want To Go Out? Here Are 3 Books For An Inner Journey

Wednesday, June 9, 2021 - 5:00am
By Lily Meyer

Everyone's talking about getting out and about now that the pandemic has calmed — but what if you don't want to? Here are three books in translation that'll help you dig into your own life and mind.

(Image credit: Courtesy of Archipelago Books)

Source: NPR Book Reviews


Rivka Galchen’s Historical Novel Satirizes Moral Panic

Tuesday, June 8, 2021 - 9:00pm
By Sarah Hagi
“Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch” sets a literal witch hunt in 17th-century Germany.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Two Books on the Bizarreness of Texas

Tuesday, June 8, 2021 - 1:00pm
By Christopher Knowlton
“Forget the Alamo,” by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson and Jason Stanford, and “A Single Star and Bloody Knuckles,” by Bill Minutaglio, have many strange stories to tell about the Lone Star State.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


New Audiobooks From Seth Rogen, Danielle Henderson and Elon Green

Tuesday, June 8, 2021 - 11:04am
By Jennifer Reese
From a grisly ’90s true-crime story to slapstick comedy to family heartbreak, these narrators know how to keep your attention.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


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