'The Veiled Throne' keeps the flame of the Dandelion Dynasty burning on every page
A thousand pages is a lot. But there's Ken Liu's voice to hold onto in this third installment of his epic — beautifully deployed and fully in command of the language of his imaginary universe.
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The Pillars of African American History: Ibi Zoboi’s Kwanzaa Picture Book
“The People Remember” connects Black resilience in the face of generational trauma to the seven principles of Kwanzaa.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
12 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
A visual feast: 5 favorite art books of 2021
Most readers spend a lot of time happily immersed in words. But for a change of pace, these gorgeous art books to provide hours of blissful visual diversion.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
The Best Historical Fiction of 2021
The year’s most transporting novels have taken us to the past and around the globe.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
What Was on the Best-Seller List 50 Years Ago?
Arthur Hailey and Joseph Last were in the top slots. Their subjects: cars and the Roosevelts.
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Amanda Gorman, the Inaugural Poet Who Dreams of Writing Novels
“Novel writing was my original love, and I still hope to do it. I just typically can finish writing a single poem faster than I can an entire narrative book!”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
To Understand Our Future on Earth, Look to the Laws That Govern Nature
In “A Natural History of the Future,” Rob Dunn turns to ecology as a way of figuring out just how the planet will be altered by climate change.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Does It Make Sense to Categorize People by Generation?
In “The Generation Myth,” Bobby Duffy deconstructs the stereotypes that have built up around millennials, boomers and other cohorts.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
From Venus to Medusa, How Art Codifies the Objectification of Women
In “Women in the Picture,” the art historian Catherine McCormack traces classical female figures and their effects on Western culture.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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