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Hanif Abdurraqib Celebrates Black Performance

Friday, April 2, 2021 - 5:00am
By Lauretta Charlton
In “A Little Devil in America,” Abdurraqib moves from Master Juba to Josephine Baker to Sun Ra to Patti LaBelle to “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Are Horses More Useful to Humans Than Pigeons? And Other Letters to the Editor

Friday, April 2, 2021 - 5:00am
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


New in Paperback: ‘How Much of These Hills Is Gold’ and ‘Coffeeland’

Friday, April 2, 2021 - 5:00am
By Jennifer Krauss
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


11 New Books We Recommend This Week

Thursday, April 1, 2021 - 1:12pm
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Cynthia Ozick Calls the New Philip Roth Biography a ‘Narrative Masterwork’

Thursday, April 1, 2021 - 5:00am
By Cynthia Ozick
Blake Bailey’s comprehensive life of Roth features a parade of book after book, award after award, and lover after lover.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Elizabeth Acevedo Understands That ‘People Read Like They Eat’

Thursday, April 1, 2021 - 5:00am
“Sometimes we want comfort, sometimes we want to work to crack something open.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


It Takes Gumption to Work on a Novel For 10 Years. Ask Angeline Boulley.

Thursday, April 1, 2021 - 5:00am
By Elisabeth Egan
“Firekeeper’s Daughter” is a runaway success, but the years leading to its publication consisted of a long series of quiet mornings.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


A Novel of the City, Alive to Its Hidden Connections

Thursday, April 1, 2021 - 5:00am
By David Goodwillie
In “Ghosts of New York,” Jim Lewis introduces four characters and follows their intersecting paths.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Hunter Biden's Memoir 'Beautiful Things' Seeks To Tell Just Where He's Been

Wednesday, March 31, 2021 - 4:56pm
By Ron Elving

The account by the president's younger son is at times a harrowing journey; in the end, if not for forgiveness or sympathy, it may be about making a stand and taking whatever place he can occupy.

(Image credit: Gallery Books)

Source: NPR Book Reviews


'A Most Remarkable Creature' Introduces The Little-Known, Charismatic Caracara

Wednesday, March 31, 2021 - 12:49pm
By Anna Morris

Through Jonathan Meiburg's inquiring lens, readers will find themselves with a new favorite animal — a bird of prey aptly described as "one of the strangest and most wonderful animals on Earth."

(Image credit: Knopf)

Source: NPR Book Reviews


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