A Melancholy Yiddish Classic That Also Happens to Be Hilarious
“Sons and Daughters,” Chaim Grade’s serialized novel about Jewish life in 1930s Europe, has been published in English for the first time.
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Book Review: ‘The Man Nobody Killed,’ by Elon Green
Elon Green’s telling of the life and death of the artist Michael Stewart is filled with heartbreaking echoes of the present.
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Keeping Up With Highbrow Art While Raising a Child
It’s not easy, but here’s how Mark Krotov, the publisher of the literary magazine n+1, attempts it, often with his 6-year-old daughter along for the ride.
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Geoff Nicholson, Author of Darkly Comic Novels, Dies at 71
In more than a dozen books, he created characters who were obsessed with maps, urban walking, sexual fetishes and Volkswagen Beetles.
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Merle Oberon, a Hollywood Star With a Career-Ending Secret
Merle Oberon was a popular actress who was once nominated for an Oscar. But a fact that she hid from the public threatened to unspool her entire life’s work.
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Book Review: ‘The Tokyo Suite,’ by Giovana Madalosso
“The Tokyo Suite” explores class divisions in contemporary Brazil via the twinned stories of a high-powered TV executive and the desperate caretaker of her child.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
The Month’s Best New Crime Novels
Our critic on Deanna Raybourn’s “Kills Well With Others” and three more new books.
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Joan Dye Gussow, Pioneer of Eating Locally, Is Dead at 96
An indefatigable gardener, she was concerned, a colleague said, with “all the things that have to happen for us to get our food.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Curtis Sittenfeld Goes Home Again
The best-selling bard of female anxiety rakes over some middle school memories while visiting the city where she grew up.
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