Brit Bennett's triumphant new novel follows two light-skinned black sisters whose lives take very different paths; you'll keep turning pages not to find out what happens, but who these women are.
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The New Yorker journalist says Putin and Trump were elected president without really wanting the job. They ran "not for president but for autocrat," and did not expect to settle for anything less.
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In her latest book, “The Next Great Migration,” the science journalist Sonia Shah traces the global movements of humans today to age-old patterns in other species.
An excerpt from “The Next Great Migration,” by Sonia Shah
An excerpt from “The Deviant’s War,” by Eric Cervini
“Between Everything and Nothing,” by Joe Meno, recounts the harrowing quest by two Ghanaian men to gain asylum in North America.
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
In 1957, Franklin Kameny was fired from a government job for being gay. His bold fight against bias, Eric Cervini shows in “The Deviant’s War,” inspired a movement.
“Ornamental,” by the Colombian writer Juan Cárdenas, smashes together art, science and philosophy in a compact, fast-moving novel.
Naoise Dolan’s debut follows a young Irishwoman as she becomes involved in the lives of Hong Kong’s upper crust.
“The Dragons, the Giant, the Women” is a migration memoir of separations, relocations and reunions.
In his first installment of a new series on overlooked or under-read American writers, A.O. Scott, a critic at large for The New York Times, considers Wallace Stegner, the Western novelist who captured, and criticized, his region’s individualistic spirit.
Brit Bennett's new novel centers on two light-skinned African American sisters — one of whom "passes" for white. The Vanishing Half is compelling — if somewhat melodramatic.
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In Meryl Wilsner's debut novel, a Hollywood showrunner and her assistant are thrust into the spotlight after an innocuous red-carpet moment prompts gossip about a relationship between the two women.
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In William Shivering’s “Thieves of Weirdwood,” a mirror city’s buildings and streets physically reflect the hopes and fears of a “normal,” grim, Dickensian city’s residents.
In Katherine Applegate’s “The One and Only Bob,” Ivan’s best buddy strikes out on his own.
Author: Pesce, Nicolas, 1990- film director. Raimi, Sam, film producer. Tapert, Robert (Robert G.), film producer. Ichise, Taka, film producer. Gilpin, Betty, actor.
Published: 2020
Call Number: GRUDGE
Format: Video disc
Summary: After a young mother murders her family in her own house, a single mother and young detective try to investigate and solve the case. Later, she discovers the house is cursed by a vengeful ghost that dooms those who enter it with a violent death. Now, she runs to save herself and her son from demonic spirits from the cursed house in her neighborhood.
Author: Pesce, Nicolas, 1990- film director. Raimi, Sam, film producer. Tapert, Robert (Robert G.), film producer. Ichise, Taka, film producer. Gilpin, Betty, actor.
Published: 2020
Call Number: GRUDGE
Format: Video disc
Summary: After a young mother murders her family in her own house, a single mother and young detective try to investigate and solve the case. Later, she discovers the house is cursed by a vengeful ghost that dooms those who enter it with a violent death. Now, she runs to save herself and her son from demonic spirits from the cursed house in her neighborhood.
Author: Petzold, Christian, 1960- film director. Petzold, Christian, 1960- screenwriter. Koerner von Gustorf, Florian, film producer. Weber, Michael, 1958- films producer. Rogowski, Franz, actor.
Published: 2019
Call Number: TRANSIT (GERMAN)
Format: Video disc
Summary: Georg, a German refugee, flees to Marseille assuming the identity of a recently deceased writer whose papers he is carrying. There he delves into the delicate and complex culture of the refugee community, becoming enmeshed in the lives of a young mother and son and falling for a mysterious woman named Marie.
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