Book Reviews

Book Review: ‘The Hyacinth Girl,’ by Lyndall Gordon

NY Times Book Reviews - Mon, 11/07/2022 - 5:00am

Drawing on newly released letters from the poet to Emily Hale, with whom he maintained a decades-long, mostly epistolary affair, “The Hyacinth Girl,” by Lyndall Gordon, reconsiders his life and work.

Book Review: “Flight,” by Lynn Steger Strong

NY Times Book Reviews - Mon, 11/07/2022 - 5:00am

In Lynn Steger Strong’s third novel, “Flight,” a trio of siblings converge for their first Christmas without their mother. It’s complicated.

Book Review: ‘Unstoppable Us.’ by Yuval Noah Harari

NY Times Book Reviews - Sun, 11/06/2022 - 5:00am

In “Unstoppable Us,” he presents the provocative ideas that drove his 2015 best seller, “Sapiens,” without dumbing them down.

Books That Teach Children About War Without Frightening Them

NY Times Book Reviews - Sat, 11/05/2022 - 5:00am

Four new picture books tackle the subject in sensitive, reassuring ways.

Book Review: ‘Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern,’ by Neil Baldwin

NY Times Book Reviews - Sat, 11/05/2022 - 5:00am

The most revealing statements in a new biography come from the dancers who gave their lives and bodies to her experiments.

Books on Democracy Under Threat

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 11/04/2022 - 12:52pm

It’s among the world’s oldest forms of government, but it’s increasingly under threat. These books consider the sources and effects of an alarming global trend.

Steps in the Left Direction

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 11/04/2022 - 12:22pm

Playbooks for political change from Robert Kuttner and Eric Holder, and a historian’s warning about the heart of the resistance.

'White Horse' is about supernatural horrors — and everyday horrors

NPR Book Reviews - Fri, 11/04/2022 - 7:48am

Erika T. Wurth's novel belongs to a new wave of horror fiction that delivers the creepiness and darkness readers have always associated with the genre, while also packing plenty of social commentary.

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Book Review: ‘Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party,’ by Stephen Shames and Ericka Huggins

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 11/04/2022 - 5:00am

From schools to free food and health care, the group’s majority female membership carried out life-sustaining, grass-roots programs that went far beyond politics.

Book Review: “We All Want Impossible Things,” by Catherine Newman

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 11/04/2022 - 5:00am

In her novel “We All Want Impossible Things,” Catherine Newman achieves the near-impossible: a story about death, with humor.

Adaptations of ‘Anne of Green Gables’ Are Proliferating

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 11/04/2022 - 5:00am

Suddenly, remakes and adaptations of L.M. Montgomery’s “Anne of Green Gables” series are proliferating.

9 New Books We Recommend This Week

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 11/03/2022 - 4:43pm

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

10 books to read to learn about women's plight in Iran

NPR Book Reviews - Thu, 11/03/2022 - 10:50am

The latest uprising in Iran is about much more than mandatory hijab. We've complied a list of books that offer insight into the lives of Iranian women and what is happening in their country.

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Book Review: ‘The Hyacinth Girl,’ by Lyndall Gordon

Book Review: “Flight,” by Lynn Steger Strong

Book Review: ‘Unstoppable Us.’ by Yuval Noah Harari

Books That Teach Children About War Without Frightening Them

Book Review: ‘Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern,’ by Neil Baldwin

Books on Democracy Under Threat

Steps in the Left Direction

'White Horse' is about supernatural horrors — and everyday horrors

Book Review: ‘Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party,’ by Stephen Shames and Ericka Huggins

Book Review: “We All Want Impossible Things,” by Catherine Newman

Adaptations of ‘Anne of Green Gables’ Are Proliferating

9 New Books We Recommend This Week

10 books to read to learn about women's plight in Iran

Book Review: ‘Shanda,’ by Letty Cottin Pogrebin; ‘A Girlhood,’ by Carolyn Hays; ‘The Family Outing,’ by Jessi Hempel

Bono By the Book Interview

Bono By the Book Interview

Sizzling, Sparking, White-Hot Romance Novels

Books on Democracy to Understand Increasing Threats

Book Review: ‘It’s Not TV,’ by Felix Gillette and John Koblin

Book Review: ‘Magic To Do,' by Elysa Gardner

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