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Review: ‘Catholicism: A Global History From the French Revolution to Pope Francis,’ by John T. McGreevy

NY Times Book Reviews - Mon, 09/12/2022 - 1:02pm

John T. McGreevy’s exhaustive “Catholicism: A Global History From the French Revolution to Pope Francis” explains how debates within the church got so fierce.

NPR's Nina Totenberg offers a window into her world in 'Dinners with Ruth'

NPR Book Reviews - Mon, 09/12/2022 - 6:38am

The reporter's memoir takes readers on a jaunt through her captivating life and career, nose for the jugular, forthrightness about her joys and sorrows — and the history of women in the workplace.

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Review: ‘Sugar Street,’ by Jonathan Dee

NY Times Book Reviews - Mon, 09/12/2022 - 5:00am

Very hard, if Jonathan Dee’s new novel, “Sugar Street,” is any guide.

Review: ‘Life’s Work,’ by David Milch

NY Times Book Reviews - Mon, 09/12/2022 - 5:00am

“Life’s Work” is a memoir of outrageous youth, creative obsessions and ruinous habits.

How Student Debt Killed the Plot

NY Times Book Reviews - Sun, 09/11/2022 - 10:35am

Fictional characters, too, are saddled with college loans, and struggling to keep the story of their lives moving forward.

How Student Debt Killed the Plot

NY Times Book Reviews - Sun, 09/11/2022 - 5:00am

Fictional characters, too, are saddled with college loans, and struggling to keep the story of their lives moving forward.

Jennifer Egan and the Goon Squad

NY Times Book Reviews - Sat, 09/10/2022 - 8:18am

The novelist talks about her Pulitzer-winning book, which includes one chapter written as a PowerPoint presentation, and Stephen Fry discusses Greek mythology.

6 Y.A. Love Stories to Add to Your Reading List

NY Times Book Reviews - Sat, 09/10/2022 - 5:00am

Nicola Yoon, the author of “Everything, Everything,” “The Sun Is Also a Star” and “Instructions for Dancing,” recommends a few of her favorite Y.A. love stories.

Review: ‘Before We Were Trans,’ by Kit Heyam

NY Times Book Reviews - Sat, 09/10/2022 - 5:00am

Kit Heyam’s “Before We Were Trans” spans continents and millenniums to prove that where there is humanity, there is nonconformity.

A Back-to-School Book List for the Ages

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/09/2022 - 11:09am

Karina Yan Glaser, author of the Vanderbeekers series, recommends picture books, chapter books and novels for preschool to middle grade readers.

'If I Survive You' is a sweeping portrait of a family's fight to make it in America

NPR Book Reviews - Fri, 09/09/2022 - 10:15am

Jonathan Escoffery's If I Survive You is an intensively granular, yet panoramic depiction of what it's like to try to make it — or not — in this kaleidoscopic madhouse of a country.

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Review: ‘Ice Cold: A Hip-Hop Jewelry History,’ by Vikki Tobak

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/09/2022 - 5:00am

A new book traces the arc of hip-hop jewelry from the 1980s to today.

Review: “The Third Reconstruction,” by Peniel E. Joseph

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/09/2022 - 5:00am

While compellingly readable, Peniel E. Joseph’s “The Third Reconstruction” overstates the impact of the recent reckoning over racial justice.

Ling Ma’s Surreal Subversions

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/09/2022 - 5:00am

The stories in “Bliss Montage” see women — insouciant, detached, mostly Chinese American — making questionable choices.

Review: “Holler of the Fireflies” by David Barclay Moore

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/09/2022 - 12:01am

In “Hummingbird” and “Holler of the Fireflies,” a girl with brittle bones and a boy plagued by racist tensions seek healing in the hills.

10 New Books We Recommend This Week

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 09/08/2022 - 3:21pm

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

Why Economic Populism Remains the Winning Ticket

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 09/08/2022 - 1:53pm

In “The Middle Out,” Michael Tomasky contends that Joe Biden is following a smart path in a time of growing inequality and financial distress.

Book Review: ‘Solito,’ by Javier Zamora

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 09/08/2022 - 10:00am

In his new memoir, “Solito,” the poet Javier Zamora recounts his experience traveling from El Salvador to the United States, by himself, when he was a young boy.

William Kent Krueger is BFF With His Most Famous Character

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 09/08/2022 - 5:00am

The best-selling author of 19 novels starring Cork O’Connor opens up about their relationship.

The Novel That Made Karen Armstrong Quit Her Reading Group

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 09/08/2022 - 5:00am

“There was an upsetting aura of righteousness in the room” when the group read Iris Murdoch’s “A Fairly Honourable Defeat,” says the religious scholar, whose latest book is “Sacred Nature.” “It did not deserve this response. I have never returned.”

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