Nicola Yoon’s New Book Is a Romance About a Teenager Who Doesn’t Believe in Love
In Nicola Yoon’s book “Instructions for Dancing,” a teenager who doesn’t believe in love rediscovers romance through dance classes.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Drew Pearson, the Muckraking Journalist With the Bully Pulpit
Donald A. Ritchie’s “The Columnist” describes the 37-year career of a journalist who was, in his time, one of the most powerful men in Washington.
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Breaking Out of Prison With a Ouija Board and Some Clever Tricks
“The Confidence Men,” by Margalit Fox, recounts the elaborate true-life saga of two British officers who escaped from an Ottoman prison camp during World War I by brainwashing and manipulating their captors.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Kristen Arnett’s Latest Subjects Are the Lesbian Parents of an Autistic-Coded Son
In “With Teeth,” two moms struggle to keep their marriage — and their neuroatypical child — alive.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Ben Rhodes Takes a Gloomy Tour of the World
Rhodes’s “After the Fall” surveys the dangers America’s policies have helped create, and how those dangers are coming back to haunt us.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Michelle Orange Tackles a Writerly Taboo: Her Mother
Few subjects may be as resistant to successful literary examination. But in “Pure Flame” the author, assisted by a literature on feminism and motherhood, brings a cleareyed approach to her relationship with her mother, an ambitious businesswoman.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
As Venice Floods, a Lush, Malice-Infused Mystery Unfolds
In “Palace of the Drowned,” Christine Mangan explores the uneasy relationship between two women.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
The Young Activist and the Atlanta Bar That Shaped Queer History
In “A Night at the Sweet Gum Head,” Martin Padgett follows the L.G.B.T.Q. activist Bill Smith and the drag queen John Greenwell to chronicle 1970s queer history.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Who Can You Count On? And Other Unanswerable but Alluring Questions.
In “One Two Three,” Laurie Frankel takes readers to a small town ravaged by chemicals and into the lives of triplets whose lives are far from normal.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
A Stunning Graphic Novel Uncovers The History Of Enslaved Women Who Fought Back
Wake, by Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martínez, blends passion and fact to set a new standard for illustrated history: Not just action scenes of daring, desperate women, but the struggle to make them known.
(Image credit: Simon and Schuster)
Source: NPR Book Reviews
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