Now More Than Ever, Brandon Stanton Makes People Feel Less Alone
The creator of Humans of New York went global in his new best seller. Now that we have to stay local, his perspective is more galvanizing than ever.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
In 'This Is Not My Memoir' André Gregory Recounts Tales Of Childhood And The Theater
The avant-garde theater director and actor pairs up with writer-director Todd London to present the story of his multi-faceted life, full of dramatic ups and downs — and celebrities.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
The Wild, Rangy, Unclassifiable Delights of Joy Williams’s Fiction
In the third installment of “The Americans,” his series on overlooked or under-read writers, A.O. Scott considers the idiosyncratic originality of an author whose influences extend from Hawthorne to Carver but whose imagination is wholly her own.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
How Richard Linklater’s ‘Dazed and Confused’ Came to Exist
Patton Oswalt reviews “Alright, Alright, Alright,” an oral history by Melissa Maerz.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Characters Protesting the Times, When the Real Problem Is Time Itself
In Charles Baxter’s new novel, “The Sun Collective,” an aging couple‘s search for their missing son leads them to a quasi-anarchist group.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
New & Noteworthy Audiobooks, From Rebel Girls to Rachel Bloom
A selection of recent audiobooks of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
'The Book Collectors' Opens The Door To A Secret Library Amidst Syria's Civil War
Delphine Minoui's slim new book tells the true story of a group of Syrian resistance fighters who founded a 15,000-volume library in the basement of an abandoned building.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
In This Debut Novel, a Chinese Immigrant Keeps His Sleepwalking Sister’s Secrets
Simon Han’s “Nights When Nothing Happened” exposes the tedium and tension of life as a foreigner in America.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
In 'Fevers, Feuds And Diamonds,' Paul Farmer Breaks Down Assumptions About Ebola
The anthropologist and physician teaches that the world needs not only medicine, but something more — a rejection of global racial inequalities and serious investment in the care of all people.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
Book Review: ‘V2,’ by Robert Harris
“V2,” Robert Harris’s new World War II novel, follows a German engineer of the feared rockets and a British woman sent to stop them.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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