Meet ‘the Pablo Escobar of the Falcon Egg Trade’
In his new book, “The Falcon Thief,” Joshua Hammer exposes the world’s most notorious wild-bird trafficker.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Strangers’ Things: A Journalist Finds Grace in Other People’s Stories
After he suffered a health crisis, Jeff Sharlet began talking to and photographing the people he met. “This Brilliant Darkness” is the poignant record of those encounters.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Sexism and Genius Collide ‘In the Land of Men’
Adrienne Miller’s memoir chronicles her tenure as fiction editor of Esquire in the 1990s and her rocky relationship with David Foster Wallace, the era’s iconic novelist.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
A Love Letter to Old-Fashioned Department Stores
The romantic adventures of salesladies in 1950s Sydney come alive in Madeleine St. John’s gentle comedy of manners, “The Women in Black.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
'Black Sunday' Will Destroy You — Let It
Tola Rotimi Abraham's wrenching novel follows a four young children in Lagos, Nigeria, whose comfortable life is blown apart when their mother loses her job, and their father abandons them.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
Love Has A Ghost Of A Chance In 'The Regrets'
Amy Bonaffons deftly avoids the trap of saccharine sweetness in her new novel about a ghost serving out a 90-day sentence on Earth — and the woman he falls in love with.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
'The Freedom Artist' Is A Perfect Read For A Post-Truth Era
Ben Okri's new novel begins with a prison, which preoccupies his characters — where is it? What is it? Who's in it? It's a deceptively simple read that wrestles with deep questions about humanity.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
Leslie Jamison on Jenny Offill’s ‘Weather’
Jamison talks about Offill’s new novel, and Courtney Maum talks about “Before and After the Book Deal.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
New Literary Prize Will Award Over $100,000 to a Female Novelist
The Carol Shields Prize is an effort to raise the visibility of women writers, in part with a sum that far exceeds many other book awards.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
I Dreaded Black History Month, Until a Novelist Opened My Eyes
In Christopher Paul Curtis’s books, the historical black experience came to life: the joy, the humor and the triumphs, not just the pain. Others have followed his lead.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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