Assaults and Occupations in Wartime
Two new books look at men in battle and civilians under occupation.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
A Poet Who Mesmerizes by Zigs and Zags, Hopping From Idea to Idea
In “That Was Now, This Is Then,” the Pulitzer-winning poet Vijay Seshadri invites readers into his coiling, conversational thought process.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
In 'Ghostways,' A Trip To Two Well-Traveled Places Reminds Of Things That Are Lost
Ghostways is an examination of grief as a landscape that moves on without us — and the fragility of the green world we're longing to go back to post-pandemic.
(Image credit: W. W. Norton & Company)
Source: NPR Book Reviews
7 New Books to Watch For in December
There’s a new novel from Jane Smiley and biographies of the English suffragist Sylvia Pankhurst and Louise Fitzhugh, the creator of “Harriet the Spy.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Why Harry Truman Matters Today
Joe Scarborough’s “Saving Freedom” recalls how politicians in 1947 took the lead in fighting isolationism and redefining America’s role in the world.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
‘The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams,’ by David S. Brown: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams,” by David S. Brown
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Remembering the Enslaved Who Sued for Freedom Before the Civil War
In “A Question of Freedom,” the historian William G. Thomas III writes about families who pursued more than a thousand freedom suits, a number of them successful.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Three New Books That Stare Up at the Stars
From the secret lives of planets to the mysteries contained in meteors, a look at books that explore the vast and fascinating cosmos.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Queer Exile: Three Novels About Émigrés, Lovers and Family
“The Thirty Names of Night,” “You Exist Too Much” and “A Country for Dying” feature characters who leave home and long for new identities.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Studies of Darkness and Disguise at the Movies
In Ed Park’s Graphic Content column, he looks at two new graphic novels: Katriona Chapman’s “Breakwater” and Pat Dorian’s “Lon Chaney Speaks.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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