Hired to Tame Horses, She Bonded With the People, Too
In “Half Broke,” Ginger Gaffney recounts the a year and a half she spent helping a ranch managed by prison inmates.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
In Ben Passmore's Latest, 'Sports Is Hell' And The World Is On Fire
Passmore's timely new graphic novel is set in an unnamed city whose football team has just won the Super Bowl, setting off fiery riots. It's a biting satire of political action, race and capitalism.
(Image credit: Koyama Press)
Source: NPR Book Reviews
In A Dark Future, These 'Upright Women' Bring Hope
Sarah Gailey's new novella is set in a dystopian future where the United States resembles the Old West, and bands of women on horseback distribute government-approved media to distant villages.
(Image credit: Petra Mayer/NPR)
Source: NPR Book Reviews
The Journalist and the Murderers
In “Race Against Time,” the Mississippi journalist Jerry Mitchell chronicles four key cases of racist violence from the 1960s and his role in unearthing damning new evidence.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
New & Noteworthy Poetry Books
Recent collections from Eliza Griswold, Mark Bibbins and more; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
A Comic Coming-of-Age Novel Laced With Social Commentary
Gabriel Bump’s “Everywhere You Don’t Belong,” about a young black man from Chicago’s South Side, balances emotional heaviness and levity, Tommy Orange writes in his review.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
The True Story of a Medieval Romeo and Juliet
Stefan Hertmans’s novel “The Convert” reimagines an 11th-century romance.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Vivian Gornick Can’t Stop Rereading
In “Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader,” the revered memoirist makes an urgent argument for the value of returning to a book you’ve already read.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
‘Wuthering Heights’ Reimagined as a 1960s Affair
In “Heathcliff Redux,” the novella at the heart of Lily Tuck’s new collection, an unnamed narrator becomes obsessed with her own Heathcliff.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
She Found Carson McCullers’s Love Letters. They Taught Her Something About Herself.
In “My Autobiography of Carson McCullers,” Jenn Shapland describes how studying the novelist, who died in 1967, helped her reckon with her own identity.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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