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Book Review: ‘Nineteen Claws and a Blackbird,’ by Agustina Bazterrica; ‘Zero-Sum,’ by Joyce Carol Oates; ‘The Best Possible Experience,’ by Nishanth Injam; ‘Emergency,’ by Kathleen Alcott

NY Times Book Reviews - Wed, 07/12/2023 - 8:56am

New short fiction by Agustina Bazterrica, Joyce Carol Oates, Nishanth Injam and Kathleen Alcott.

Milan Kundera, Czech Literary Star, Dies at 94

NY Times Book Reviews - Wed, 07/12/2023 - 7:05am

Mr. Kundera, the author of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” was known for sexually charged novels that captured the suffocating absurdity of life in his native Czechoslovakia.

An Exiled Publisher Creates a ‘Brotherhood Across Tibetans’

NY Times Book Reviews - Wed, 07/12/2023 - 5:00am

Buchung Sonam co-founded a press to nurture the writing of Tibetans, helping provide through literature a sense of home for a stateless population.

John le Carré’s Best Books

NY Times Book Reviews - Wed, 07/12/2023 - 5:00am

His clever, melancholic mind produced some of the most enduring heroes in spy fiction. Here are his best books.

John le Carré’s Best Books

NY Times Book Reviews - Wed, 07/12/2023 - 5:00am

His clever, melancholic mind produced some of the most enduring heroes in spy fiction. Here are his best books.

Book Review: ‘Blight,’ by Emily Monosson

NY Times Book Reviews - Wed, 07/12/2023 - 5:00am

“Blight,” by Emily Monosson, chronicles the threats fungal pathogens pose to humans, animals and plants as the world’s most devastating agents of disease.

Book Review: ‘Jews in the Garden,’ by Judy Rakowsky

NY Times Book Reviews - Wed, 07/12/2023 - 5:00am

In “Jews in the Garden,” the journalist Judy Rakowsky helps a relative uncover the truth of what happened to their family during World War II.

Book Review: ‘Directions to Myself,’ by Heidi Julavits; ‘Lesbian Love Story,’ by Amelia Possanza; ‘Strong Female Character,’ by Fern Brady

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 07/11/2023 - 1:48pm

New books by Heidi Julavits, Amelia Possanza and Fern Brady explore a future of self-discovery by mining the past.

Book Review: ‘Not Even the Dead,’ by Juan Gómez Bárcena

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 07/11/2023 - 11:45am

“Not Even the Dead,” a novel by Juan Gómez Bárcena, is a transhistorical epic with echoes of Cormac McCarthy and Joseph Conrad.

Book Review: ‘Under the Eye of Power,’ by Colin Dickey

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 07/11/2023 - 10:25am

In “Under the Eye of Power,” Colin Dickey unearths the long, disturbing history of fearmongering in American politics and culture.

'When Crack Was King' follows four people who lived through the drug epidemic

NPR Book Reviews - Tue, 07/11/2023 - 8:07am

An excellent work of people-first journalism, Donovan X. Ramsey's book offers a vivid and frank history and highlights how communities tend to save themselves even as they're being targeted.

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Book Review: ‘The Truth About Max,’ by Alice and Martin Provensen

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 07/11/2023 - 5:00am

A previously unknown manuscript explores the ultimately unknowable psyche of the Provensens’ favorite feline.

Book Review: ‘When Crack Was King,’ by Donovan X. Ramsey

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 07/11/2023 - 5:00am

In “When Crack Was King,” Donovan X. Ramsey offers a fresh history of the epidemic that gripped minority communities, inflamed media coverage and led to draconian drug laws.

My Unlikely Writing Teacher: Pedro Martinez

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 07/11/2023 - 5:00am

Looking to a maestro on the mound to improve your writing game.

'The Skull,' Jon Klassen's latest children's book, is darker than his previous ones

NPR Book Reviews - Mon, 07/10/2023 - 4:06pm

Author and illustrator Jon Klassen is best known for children's books like I Want My Hat Back and This is Not My Hat. His latest, The Skull, is an adaptation of a traditional folktale.

Behind ‘Oppenheimer,’ a Prizewinning Biography 25 Years in the Making

NY Times Book Reviews - Mon, 07/10/2023 - 1:36pm

Martin Sherwin struck the deal and dove into the research. But it was only when Kai Bird joined as a collaborator that “American Prometheus” came to be.

Book Review: ‘The Parrot and the Igloo,’ by David Lipsky

NY Times Book Reviews - Mon, 07/10/2023 - 5:00am

In “The Parrot and the Igloo,” the novelist and journalist David Lipsky spins top-flight climate literature into cliffhanger entertainment.

Book Review: ‘Hope,’ by Andrew Ridker

NY Times Book Reviews - Mon, 07/10/2023 - 5:00am

In his riotous new novel, “Hope,” Andrew Ridker finds the humor in a family’s plummet from grace.

Book Review: ‘Onlookers,’ by Ann Beattie

NY Times Book Reviews - Mon, 07/10/2023 - 5:00am

Her new collection, “Onlookers,” is about shattered certainties in the wake of quarantine, growth and unrest.

Book Review: ‘The Centre,’ by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi

NY Times Book Reviews - Mon, 07/10/2023 - 5:00am

In her debut novel, “The Centre,” Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi explores class anxiety, identity, appropriation and more through a sinister language school.

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