9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Peter Elbow, Professor Who Transformed Freshman Comp, Dies at 89
His struggles with writer’s block led him to create a process that favored an expressive, personal approach over rigid academic conventions that often stifled students.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Ione Skye Was an Enigma in Her 1990s Heyday. Now She’d Like a Word.
In her new memoir, the actress known for movies like “Say Anything” and “Gas Food Lodging” talks about Hollywood, bisexuality and the trappings of Gen X fame.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Winter Books to Read to Escape the Cold
Scorching-hot westerns, seafaring adventures and steamy romances are an ideal way to stay toasty this season.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Book Review: ‘Meltdown,’ by Duncan Mavin
In “Meltdown,” Duncan Mavin describes the grand rise and ignominious fall of a financial behemoth.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Interview: Mark Greaney on the ‘Gray Man’ Series and His Reading Life
The author of the “Gray Man” espionage series grew up on James Bond, but that Ian Fleming novel has too much golf, too little “secret agenting.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Frankétienne, Father of Haitian Letters, Is Dead at 88
A prolific novelist, poet, painter and soothsayer, he was inspired by the chaos of his country and published the first novel written entirely in Haitian Creole.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
'Last Seen': After slavery, family members placed ads looking for loved ones
Formerly enslaved people would placed ads in newspapers hoping to find lost children, parents, spouses and siblings. Historian Judith Giesberg tells the stories of some of those families in a new book.
Source: NPR Book Reviews
Book Review: ‘Right-Wing Women,’ by Andrea Dworkin
In a newly reissued 1983 book, the radical feminist Andrea Dworkin argued that conservative women understood the reality of male domination.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Why Are We So Obsessed With Blue?
The color has an unshakable hold on musicians, artists and writers.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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