New picture books from Grace Lin, Lynne Rae Perkins, J. Patrick Lewis and more celebrate the snowy season and the brave, fascinating creatures who revel in it.
The title of Kiley Reid's debut novel works on multiple levels — it can refer to chronological age or political era — and those different meanings echo throughout this funny, uncomfortable book.
This week, Scott Simon reviews the poet Thomas Lynch’s collection of essays “The Depositions.” In 1997, Susan Jacoby wrote for the Book Review about “The Undertaking,” Lynch’s collection of essays about being a funeral director.
In 1920, a publisher told The Times, “It is my firm conviction that any book that deals sincerely with real life, that is a first-rate book, is bound to succeed.”