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Which Novel Should Win the Booker Prize? Have Your Say.

Monday, November 11, 2024 - 5:03am
By Alex Marshall
Percival Everett’s “James” is favorite for the prestigious literary award. But the likes of Rachel Kushner’s “Creation Lake” or Samantha Harvey’s “Orbital” could take the prize instead.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


How ‘The Wild Robot’ Was Born in a Weedy Patch of Manhattan

Monday, November 11, 2024 - 5:02am
By Elisabeth Egan
Peter Brown’s obsession with the abandoned railway that became the High Line led to two best sellers — including “The Wild Robot,” which is now a blockbuster movie.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


5 Reissued Crime Fiction Classics

Monday, November 11, 2024 - 5:01am
By Sarah Weinman
Our columnist on a handful of recently reissued crime novels, all of which are worth your time.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


5 Reissued Crime Fiction Classics

Monday, November 11, 2024 - 5:01am
By Sarah Weinman
Our columnist on a handful of recently reissued crime novels, all of which are worth your time.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


I Gave My Son the Books I Loved. He Chose ‘Heidi’ Instead.

Monday, November 11, 2024 - 5:00am
By Dave Kim
What a 19th-century Swiss novel, and a young fan’s pilgrimage to the Alps, taught me about fatherhood.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Bruce Degen, Who Drew ‘The Magic School Bus,’ Dies at 79

Sunday, November 10, 2024 - 7:22pm
By Alex Traub
He memorably portrayed a frizzy-haired science teacher roping her elementary school class into adventures aboard a shape-shifting yellow bus.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘Talkin’ Greenwich Village,’ by David Browne

Sunday, November 10, 2024 - 5:00am
By Peter Keepnews
In his latest book, the Rolling Stone writer David Browne tracks three decades of folk, blues, rock and jazz below 14th Street.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘Didion & Babitz,’ by Lili Anolik

Sunday, November 10, 2024 - 5:00am
By Marisa Meltzer
In a dual biography, the journalist Lili Anolik casts the two writers as opposite sides of the same ambitious, 1960s-Hollywood coin.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel,’ by Edwin Frank

Sunday, November 10, 2024 - 5:00am
By Alexandra Jacobs
In “Stranger Than Fiction,” Edwin Frank maps a path from Dostoyevsky to Sebald, finding mystical power and surprising ties among 20th-century writers.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘Her Lotus Year,’ by Paul French

Saturday, November 9, 2024 - 5:03am
By Thessaly La Force
As Paul French argues in a new biography, the future Duchess of Windsor’s year in China was less lurid — and more interesting — than her critics knew.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


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