Book Reviews

'The House of Doors' offers an ingenious twist, exploring how literature works magic

NPR Book Reviews - Wed, 10/18/2023 - 12:24pm

The writer W. Somerset Maugham plays a central role Tan Twan Eng's entrancing new novel that encompasses at-the-time risky interracial and homosexual love stories and a scandalous murder trial.

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Marie NDiaye Raises Questions She Has No Intention of Answering

NY Times Book Reviews - Wed, 10/18/2023 - 11:10am

She published her first book at 17 and has since become one of France’s best-known novelists. NDiaye is not interested in easy — and she expects her readers to work, too.

Book Review: ‘Some People Need Killing,’ by Patricia Evangelista

NY Times Book Reviews - Wed, 10/18/2023 - 5:03am

The new book by the Philippine journalist Patricia Evangelista recounts her investigation into the campaign of extrajudicial murders under former President Rodrigo Duterte.

Book Review: ‘Remember Us,’ by Jacqueline Woodson, and ‘Gone Wolf,’ by Amber McBride

NY Times Book Reviews - Wed, 10/18/2023 - 5:02am

“Remember Us” recalls the fires of 1970s Bushwick. “Gone Wolf” begins in a 2111 Southern breakaway nation after a second Civil War.

New Thrillers, Including ‘The Exchange,’ John Grisham’s Sequel to ‘The Firm’

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 10/17/2023 - 2:53pm

Skip “The Exchange,” our columnist advises, and pick up “The Plinko Bounce” or “The Last One” instead.

Barnes & Noble Undergoes a Back-to-Basics Redesign

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 10/17/2023 - 11:29am

As the bookstore chain mounts a comeback, it’s breaking a cardinal rule of corporate branding and store design: consistency.

John Stamos Is Done With Being Someone’s Idea of John Stamos

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 10/17/2023 - 5:05am

In a new memoir, the actor who couldn’t shake his breakthrough role on “Full House” talks about honesty, sobriety and his grief over Bob Saget’s death.

Book Review: ‘The Future Future,’ by Adam Thirlwell

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 10/17/2023 - 5:00am

Adam Thirlwell’s “The Future Future” follows a 19-year-old socialite through a prerevolutionary Paris that looks suspiciously like our present day.

Book Review: ‘I Love Russia,’ by Elena Kostyuchenko

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 10/17/2023 - 5:00am

“I Love Russia,” a collection of Elena Kostyuchenko’s reporting over the past 15 years, captures the lives of ordinary, often struggling, people in far-flung parts of the country.

Book Review: ‘House Gone Quiet,’ by Kelsey Norris; ‘The World Wasn’t Ready for You,’ by Justin C. Key

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 10/17/2023 - 5:00am

Kelsey Norris’s “House Gone Quiet” and Justin C. Key’s “The World Wasn’t Ready for You” share an interest in the ways that being bound shapes our understanding of freedom.

Book Review: ‘Tremor,’ by Teju Cole

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 10/17/2023 - 5:00am

His new novel, “Tremor,” uses images and artifacts to look deeply into trauma, identity and consolation.

Book Review: ‘The Lumumba Plot,’ by Stuart A. Reid

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 10/17/2023 - 5:00am

In “The Lumumba Plot,” the Foreign Affairs editor Stuart A. Reid asks whether the Central Intelligence Agency was involved in the death of one of Africa’s most famous post-colonial politicians.

'Blackouts' is an ingenious deathbed conversation between two friends

NPR Book Reviews - Mon, 10/16/2023 - 1:46pm

More than a decade after his debut, We the Animals, Justin Torres returns with a novel that centers on a deathbed conversation between two friends about the distortions and erasures of queer history.

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'The House of Doors' offers an ingenious twist, exploring how literature works magic

Marie NDiaye Raises Questions She Has No Intention of Answering

Book Review: ‘Some People Need Killing,’ by Patricia Evangelista

Book Review: ‘Remember Us,’ by Jacqueline Woodson, and ‘Gone Wolf,’ by Amber McBride

New Thrillers, Including ‘The Exchange,’ John Grisham’s Sequel to ‘The Firm’

Barnes & Noble Undergoes a Back-to-Basics Redesign

John Stamos Is Done With Being Someone’s Idea of John Stamos

Book Review: ‘The Future Future,’ by Adam Thirlwell

Book Review: ‘I Love Russia,’ by Elena Kostyuchenko

Book Review: ‘House Gone Quiet,’ by Kelsey Norris; ‘The World Wasn’t Ready for You,’ by Justin C. Key

Book Review: ‘Tremor,’ by Teju Cole

Book Review: ‘The Lumumba Plot,’ by Stuart A. Reid

'Blackouts' is an ingenious deathbed conversation between two friends

Book Review: ‘Invitation to a Banquet,’ by Fuchsia Dunlop

Book Review: ‘Dartmouth Park,’ by Rupert Thomson

Robert Sapolsky Doesn’t Believe in Free Will. (But Feel Free to Disagree.)

Teju Cole Talks About His New Novel, “Tremor”

Book Review: ‘I Must Be Dreaming,’ by Roz Chast

Book Review: ‘Prequel,’ by Rachel Maddow, and ‘Democracy Awakening,’ by Heather Cox Richardson

Vladimir Nabokov’s Best Books: A Guide

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