Friday, November 13, 2020 - 5:00am
By Tina Jordan
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Friday, November 13, 2020 - 5:00am
Michael P. Jeffries reviews Les Payne and Tamara Payne’s book, “The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X,” in this week’s issue. In 1992, Michael Eric Dyson wrote for the Book Review about a select group of books that examine Malcolm X’s life.
Friday, November 13, 2020 - 3:32am
By Jennifer Hubert Swan
Coming-of-age stories from four first-time novelists.
Friday, November 13, 2020 - 3:14am
By Marjorie Ingall
In Gavriel Savit’s “The Way Back,” a National Book Award finalist, two children leave their shtetl and venture to the Far Country.
Thursday, November 12, 2020 - 2:51pm
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Thursday, November 12, 2020 - 11:37am
By Marilyn Stasio
In “The Law of Innocence,” someone has planted a corpse in the trunk of the snazzy lawyer’s famous Lincoln Town Car.
Thursday, November 12, 2020 - 11:26am
By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
This first volume of the former president’s memoirs brims with warmth, humor and introspection.
Thursday, November 12, 2020 - 11:22am
By Ron Elving
Obama's ascent thrilled millions, but also stirred a counter-movement that is still on the march. His new memoir A Promised Land covers his rise through the second year of his presidency.
(Image credit: Crown)
Thursday, November 12, 2020 - 5:46am
By Britni de la Cretaz
Rapinoe's book traces her own political awakening in the hopes that other people will follow in her footsteps and understand that they have an imperative to speak out about injustice in the world.
(Image credit: Penguin Press)
Thursday, November 12, 2020 - 5:00am
By Elisabeth Egan
She tried her hand at fiction, to no avail. So she wrote a memoir about a circle of strangers instead.