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In Oyeyemi's latest magical realist adventure, our hero is a woman named Hero, and she is hurtling through the city of Prague, with a shape-shifting book about Prague, during a bachelorette weekend.

9 New Books We Recommend This Week. Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Dec. 7, 2023. I don't know if humans will colonize other planets in your lifetime or mine ...

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Here are the Books We Love: 380+ great 2023 reads recommended by NPR. November 20, 2023 • Books We Love returns with 380+ new titles handpicked by NPR staff and trusted critics. Find 11 years of ...

The Book of Goose. by Yiyun Li (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Fiction. This novel dissects the intense friendship between two thirteen-year-olds, Agnès and Fabienne, in postwar rural France. Believing ...

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NPR: Book Reviews Summary judgment on books of note, from NPR personalities, ... March 19, 2024 • Marie Mutsuki Mockett's latest novel about a wife and mother is wise and sensitive, ...

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The word "best" is always a misnomer, but these are my personal favorite book reviews of 2020. Nate Marshall on Barack Obama's A Promised Land (Chicago Tribune) A book review rarely leads to a segment on The 11th Hour with Brian Williams, but that's what happened to Nate Marshall last month. I love how he combines a traditional review ...

Book review: Isabel Allende's' The Wind Knows My Name' Isabel Allende's latest is a tale of two child immigrants — a boy who escapes Nazi occupied Vienna in 1938 and a girl who escapes military ...

From longform online essays to crisp perspectives in print, here are my 10 favorite book reviews of 2021. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub's "Rotten Tomatoes for books.". Parul Sehgal on Soyica Diggs Colbert's Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry (New York Times) Sehgal deftly takes on the style of the theatre in her ...

The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency. By Tove Ditlevsen. Translated by Tiina Nunnally and Michael Favala Goldman. Ditlevsen's gorgeous memoirs, first published in Denmark in the ...

A new book by the media theorist McKenzie Wark may be the most extensive depiction of the renegade party scene that has recently exploded in Brooklyn. By Emily Witt. April 4, 2023. Under Review.

The Sitter is the second novel by Australian author Angela O'Keeffe that takes the art world as its subject to dazzling effect. The first, Night Blue, anthropomorphised Jackson Pollock's famous ...

The best new books to read in 2024 are: Best new release - Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan, published by Faber & Faber: £18.40, Amazon.co.uk. Best family saga - The Bee Sting by Paul ...

At Kirkus Reviews, discover the hottest new books, from bestsellers you love to writers you didn't know you'd love. Be the first to be in the know! ... Pre-publication book reviews and features keeping readers and industry influencers in the know since 1933. ...

Latest books news, comment, reviews and analysis from the Guardian. ... The new book arguing that enslaved people co-authored the Bible. The best translated fiction - review roundup.

Memory Piece by Lisa Ko review - anxiety hums off the page in dystopian New York story. Three girlhood friends grow into the worlds of art, tech and activism and on towards a divisive, fascist ...

P oliticians mince or mash words for a living, and the virtuosity with which they twist meanings makes them artists of a kind. Their skill at spinning facts counts as a fictional exercise: in ...

Quotes. "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.". "I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.". "So many books, so little time.". "Two things are infinite: the ...

12 New Books We Recommend This Week. April 7, 2022. Crimes and mysteries anchor a number of our recommended titles this week, from the murder case at the heart of Aamina Ahmad's debut novel ...

And in fiction, we recommend three debut novels about characters trying to make the best of sometimes dire circumstances: "Paris Is a Party, Paris Is a Ghost," by David Hoon Kim, "Three ...

Pankaj Giri's 'The Unforgettable Woman' is a Himalayan Odyssey of Love and Redemption | Book Review. March 9, 2024 by Sankalpita Singh. In this contemporary adult fiction, Adarsh, a seasoned doctor, crosses paths with a mysterious woman from his past, while Smriti, a spirited young woman, finds solace in a new town.

It is a fantasy, but the book draws inspiration from the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Rape of Nanking. Crime Fiction Lover reviews Jessica Barry's Freefall, a crime novel: In some crime novels, the wrongdoing hits you between the eyes from page one. With others it's a more subtle process, and that's OK too.

A Twisty, Gloriously Grim Novel That Makes for Great Listening. A brother and sister battle for supremacy in 19th-century Newfoundland in Michael Crummey's latest novel, "The Adversary.". By ...