Real-World Experience Gives 'The Nightworkers' Its Punch
Brian Selfon spent years working in the criminal justice field, and he brings that knowledge to bear in his debut, about a family of money launderers whose lives are upended when a bag goes missing.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
50 States, 50 Scares
Before you pick up one of these hair-raising, shiver-inducing novels, you’re going to want to close the curtains and check the locks (twice).
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
‘I Came From Nothing’: An Undocumented Writer Defies the Odds
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, a National Book Award finalist for “The Undocumented Americans,” talks immigration, her unconventional approach to nonfiction and why impostor syndrome doesn’t faze her.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
New & Noteworthy Visual Books, From Extraordinary Women to Van Gogh’s Letters
A selection of recent visual books of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
In Don DeLillo’s New Novel, Technology Is Dead. Civilization Might Be, Too.
“The Silence” invites readers to consider whether the connected life has left us more disconnected than ever.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
'Where The Wild Ladies Are' Is Perfect Halloween Reading
Aoko Matsuda's gently supernatural story collection — all about women who are something more than they seem — gets its unearthly feel not from jump scares, but from the quality of the writing.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
The Pious French Poet Who Palled Around With Picasso and Apollinaire
In “Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters,” Rosanna Warren retraces the colorful history of a now largely forgotten figure of French modernism who was surrounded by famous friends.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
The Organization System That Changed the World? It’s Thousands of Years Old
In “A Place for Everything,” Judith Flanders, a British social historian, traces the revolutionary history of alphabetical order.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Celebrating Strange Faces, Gorgeous Sentences and Circular Prose
Brilliant new essay collections from Namwali Serpell, Brian Dillon and Daniel Mendelsohn.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Yes, Books Were Bound in Human Skin. An Intrepid Librarian Finds the Proof.
“Dark Archives,” by Megan Rosenbloom, a librarian at U.C.L.A., traces the history of the controversial practice and considers what we should do with such books today.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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