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Book Review: ‘Sonny Boy,’ by Al Pacino

Saturday, October 19, 2024 - 5:02am
By Caryn James
From Shakespeare to Strindberg to “Scarface”: The actor remembers all of it and talks about some of it in “Sonny Boy.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘No One Gets to Fall Apart,’ by Sarah LaBrie

Saturday, October 19, 2024 - 5:01am
By Linda Villarosa
In “No One Gets to Fall Apart,” the TV writer Sarah LaBrie follows the breadcrumbs of her mother’s disorder back to her childhood, and beyond.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


A Graphic Tribute to the Novelist J.G. Ballard

Friday, October 18, 2024 - 9:01am
By Koren Shadmi
A graphic tribute to the British novelist who documented the blight and brutality of the sleepy London outskirts from the 1970s into the 2000s.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary,’ by Alice Hoffman

Friday, October 18, 2024 - 5:02am
By Ruth Franklin
“When We Flew Away” envisions what Anne might have been like before the cataclysm that shut her away and made her into “the voice of the Holocaust.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


She Shared Her Notes with John Steinbeck. It was Her Novel’s Undoing.

Friday, October 18, 2024 - 5:01am
By Robert Ito
Sanora Babb’s interviews about the Dust Bowl informed ‘The Grapes of Wrath.” The book’s success led to the cancellation of her own book contract. “Riding Like the Wind” tells her life story.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘The Absinthe Forger,’ by Evan Rail

Friday, October 18, 2024 - 5:00am
By J. D. Biersdorfer
Evan Rail’s “The Absinthe Forger” takes the reader on a picaresque tour through the world of vintage alcohol collectors in pursuit of a fraudster.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


7 New Books We Recommend This Week

Thursday, October 17, 2024 - 4:41pm
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


A housemaid is suspected of killing a child in 'Clean,' a novel about class and power

Thursday, October 17, 2024 - 12:53pm
By Maureen Corrigan

Chilean author Alia Trabucco Zerán has written an intense novel about the kind of deep down rot that lingers, despite the most vigorous scrubbing.

Source: NPR Book Reviews


New Psychological Thrillers That Will Creep You Out

Thursday, October 17, 2024 - 8:12am
By Sarah Lyall
Our critic on new books by Stephanie Wrobel, Lawrence Robbins and Hildur Knútsdóttir.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


New Psychological Thrillers That Will Creep You Out

Thursday, October 17, 2024 - 5:01am
By Sarah Lyall
Our critic on new books by Stephanie Wrobel, Lawrence Robbins and Hildur Knútsdóttir.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


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