'Outlawed' Frontiers Of Gender And Sexuality Beckon In This Sly Western
Critic Maureen Corrigan has been describing Anna North's new novel to friends as "The Handmaid's Tale meets Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." It's a glib tagline, but not without justification.
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‘The Prophets’ Explores Black Love and Memory in a Time of Trauma
Robert Jones Jr.’s debut novel tells the story of two enslaved boys in love.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
'The Liar's Dictionary' Is A Delight From A To Z
Eley Williamsdid her doctoral dissertation on "mountweazels," fake words inserted into dictionaries as copyright traps — and she builds on that in her charming debut novel, about an epic dictionary.
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‘I Came as a Shadow: An Autobiography,’ by John Thompson with Jesse Washington: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “I Came as a Shadow: An Autobiography,” by John Thompson with Jesse Washington
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
'Exercised' Explains Why It Can Be Hard To Commit To Working Out — And Why We Should
Harvard University's Daniel Lieberman looks at exercise from an evolutionary point of view, concluding that we evolved to limit our physical activity where possible, saving it for survival activities.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
This Is Parenthood — and Not Just the Charming, Photogenic Parts
Peter Ho Davies’s novel, “A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself,” tells the story of one family’s beginnings to show what to expect when you’re raising a real human being.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Leonora Carrington’s Transformative Surrealist Novel
“The Hearing Trumpet,” first published in 1974, follows a 92-year-old protagonist far past reality’s dull edge.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
New & Noteworthy, From Russian Satire to the Comet Apocalypse
A selection of recent titles of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Three New Books on the Predigital Technologies That Shaped Our World
A history of early medicine, a medieval astronomer’s adventures and an exploration of wood’s importance in human history all look back to eras long before the internet.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Hate Working Out? Blame Evolution
Daniel Lieberman’s “Exercised” looks at evolutionary biology to explain what might be the most appropriate workout regimen for our bodies.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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