New in Paperback: ‘Speaking American’ and ‘The Seine’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
All-American Stories by Walter Mosley, Matthew Baker and Ron Rash
Three new collections explore the abuses, hypocrisies and awkwardnesses of living in this country today.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Claudia Rankine on the Ways Race Haunts Her Imagination, and America’s
In her new book, “Just Us,” the poet and essayist repeatedly asks how race is understood and manifested in American culture.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
'Here We Are' Conjures Magic From Ordinary Lives
Graham Smith's new novel seems at first to be a light little story about a seaside love triangle in Brighton, England in the 1950s — but it turns out to be about something far deeper.
(Image credit: Knopf)
Source: NPR Book Reviews
The Back Story Behind ‘Transcendent Kingdom’: Yaa Gyasi Is a Solid Friend
Loyalty spurred the best-selling author to visit a neuroscientist’s lab. What she saw there inspired her next narrator.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Why Michael Ian Black Doesn’t Like Mystery Novels
“Just tell me who did it.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Revisiting the ‘Violent Ballets’ of Jack Kirby
In his Graphic Content column, Ed Park explores books capturing Kirby’s life and work, including a new biography by Tom Scioli.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Black Boyhood and Its Superpowers
Isaiah Dunn has a superhero alter ego who gets his powers from eating beans and rice. Nnamdi is transformed by his anger into a seven-foot-tall hulk.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
'The Last Million' Sheds Light On Middle East History, Newer Refugee Policy Failures
Historian David Nasaw writes with deep, broad knowledge of the hundreds of thousands of refugees filling Europe's roads after WWII, hoping to return to homes that, in many cases, no longer existed.
(Image credit: Penguin Press)
Source: NPR Book Reviews
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