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Feeling Deluged By News? Let 'The Daughters Of Ys' Wash Over You

NPR Book Reviews - Sun, 08/16/2020 - 7:00am

M.T. Anderson's new graphic novel — with gorgeous art by Jo Rioux — adapts the old legend of the drowned city of Ys, giving it better, fuller female characters and a timely environmental message.

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The Music and the Mirror

NY Times Book Reviews - Sat, 08/15/2020 - 10:56am

In Hope Larson’s graphic novel “All Together Now,” an eighth-grade singer-songwriter struggles to find her voice after the band she started breaks up.

Bone Up on Shakespeare, With a Skeleton and His Ankle-Nibbling Nemesis

NY Times Book Reviews - Sat, 08/15/2020 - 10:49am

Jeremy and Hermione Tankard’s “Yorick and Bones: The Last Graphic Novel by William Shakespeare” is poignant tickle-your-ribs entertainment.

Doris Lessing’s ‘Golden Notebook’ and Our Era of Unrest

NY Times Book Reviews - Sat, 08/15/2020 - 5:00am

Lessing’s 1962 novel is far from a manifesto. But in its embrace of chaos and split identities, it captures the mood of both its time and ours.

The Radical Ordinariness of Carol Shields’s Literary World

NY Times Book Reviews - Sat, 08/15/2020 - 5:00am

The acclaimed novelist and story writer, who died in 2003, depicted the everyday experiences and domestic concerns of women — themes that deserve more literary recognition.

The Fictional World of Edward P. Jones

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 08/14/2020 - 3:52pm

A.O. Scott talks about Jones’s work and the American experience, and Eric Jay Dolin discusses “A Furious Sky.”

Plucky Characters? Ugh. Make Mine Prickly and Difficult.

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 08/14/2020 - 2:50pm

Marilyn Stasio finds much to like in the latest batch of crime novels, filled with abrasive, unpleasant sorts.

How the Battle for Women’s Suffrage Played Out in the Pages of the Book Review

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 08/14/2020 - 1:23pm

What did our critics think of the histories, memoirs and novels that explored the road to the 19th Amendment?

Remembering Poland’s Doomed Fight Against the Nazis

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 08/14/2020 - 1:00pm

Roger Moorhouse’s “Poland 1939” looks back at the very beginning of World War II to understand what happened and what might have happened.

Birds and Horses and Eels, Oh My! New Books About Animals.

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 08/14/2020 - 5:00am

Three new books — by Jennifer Ackerman, Sarah Maslin Nir and Patrik Svensson — explore some familiar and some less known members of the animal kingdom.

New in Paperback:

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 08/14/2020 - 5:00am

Six new paperbacks to check out this week.

Letters to the Editor

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 08/14/2020 - 5:00am

Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.

10 New Books We Recommend This Week

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 08/13/2020 - 3:44pm

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

To the Mathematician Eugenia Cheng, There’s No Gap Between Art and Science

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 08/13/2020 - 8:50am

“The boundaries between subjects are really artificial constructs by humans, like the boundaries between colors in a rainbow.”

Are They Still Beach Books if You’re Not Reading Them on the Beach?

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 08/13/2020 - 5:00am

Of course they are — and this summer, more than ever, indulge in some page-turning escapism.

Are They Still Beach Books if You’re Not Reading Them on the Beach?

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 08/13/2020 - 5:00am

Of course they are — and this summer, more than ever, indulge in some page-turning escapism.

Missing Weddings? Lucy Foley’s Sinister Best Seller Will Cheer You Up.

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 08/13/2020 - 5:00am

When it comes to nightmare nuptials, “The Guest List” takes the cake.

In 'Blood On The River,' The Berbice Rebellion Foreshadows Later Insurgencies

NPR Book Reviews - Wed, 08/12/2020 - 7:59am

Marjoleine Kars recounts a tale of oppression, bloodshed, and some triumph in her previously untold account of the 1763-64 slave rebellion in Dutch Berbice, modern day Guyana.

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From Concerts to Cartoons: Chopin’s Most Famous Composition

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 08/11/2020 - 3:35pm

A combination of biography, cultural commentary and personal reflection, Annik LaFarge’s “Chasing Chopin” radiates out from the “Funeral March.”

Happily Ever After? Harry and Meghan Will Settle for Normal

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 08/11/2020 - 2:30pm

In “Finding Freedom,” the veteran reporters Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand show how the British royal family’s fairy tale turned into a cautionary one.

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