Friday, 30 June 2023

Book Review: New International Fiction

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Novels and stories by Itamar Vieira Junior, Carlos Fonseca, Guadalupe Nettel and Norman Erikson Pasaribu.

via NYT > Books https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/30/books/review/vieira-junior-fonseca-nettel-pasaribu.html

Thursday, 29 June 2023

Marvin Kitman Satirist Whose Main Target Was TV Dies at 93

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He twitted the networks for 35 years as a critic at Newsday. He also audited George Washington’s wartime expense account and wrote a biography of Bill O’Reilly.

via NYT > Books https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/29/arts/television/marvin-kitman-dead.html

Umberto Eco Review: Remembering a Literary Explorer

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A new documentary delves into the infectious curiosity and passions of the Italian scholar and author of “The Name of the Rose.”

via NYT > Books https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/29/movies/umberto-eco-a-library-of-the-world-review.html

Interview: Jennifer Croft Knows a Good Translation When She Reads One

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“There has to be chemistry,” says the writer and prolific translator, whose second book will come out next year. “You don’t need prior knowledge of, say, Iceland or Icelandic in order to appreciate Victoria Cribb’s translation of Sjón.”

via NYT > Books https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/29/books/review/jennifer-croft-interview.html

Tuesday, 27 June 2023

New Books on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

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In several recent books, experts on Russia and Ukraine weigh the importance of the Wagner Group and try to predict how Putin’s invasion will play out.

via NYT > Books https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/27/books/review/russia-ukraine-war-new-books.html

Book Review: The Rachel Incident by Caroline ODonoghue

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In her new novel, “The Rachel Incident,” Caroline O’Donoghue examines the bond between two young booksellers in Ireland.

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New Historical Fiction

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Three new novels hold the keys to real and imagined kingdoms.

via NYT > Books https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/27/books/review/new-historical-fiction.html

Monday, 26 June 2023

How Review-Bombing Can Tank a Book Before Its Published

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The website Goodreads has become an essential avenue for building readership, but the same features that help generate excitement can also backfire.

via NYT > Books https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/26/books/goodreads-review-bombing.html

Bodily Functions in Literature and Why They Matter

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Bodily functions rarely get the spotlight in fiction and poetry. But for some writers, they drive action and help create indelible characters.

via NYT > Books https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/26/books/review/bodily-functions-bathroom-literature.html

How Review-Bombing Can Tank a Book Before Its Published

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The website Goodreads has become an essential avenue for building readership, but the same features that help generate excitement can also backfire.

via NYT > Books https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/26/books/how-review-bombing-can-tank-a-book-before-its-published.html

Sunday, 25 June 2023

Book Review: The Beach at Summerly by Beatriz Williams

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In “The Beach at Summerly,” Beatriz Williams weaves two standbys of summer fiction into one escapist story.

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Friday, 23 June 2023

Tuesday, 20 June 2023

Book Review: Holding Pattern by Jenny Xie

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The heroine of Jenny Xie’s debut novel, “Holding Pattern,” is back at her childhood home and learning to love herself.

via NYT > Books https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/20/books/review/jenny-xie-holding-pattern.html

Monday, 19 June 2023

Book Review: The Translations of Seamus Heaney edited by Marco Sonzogni

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As seen in a new collection, “The Translations of Seamus Heaney,” the Nobel laureate was a prolific and skilled interpreter of other poets’ work.

via NYT > Books https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/19/books/review/translations-of-seamus-heaney.html

Reframing the West: New Fiction Makes Room for Voices Long Denied

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A wave of novels is drawing from wellsprings of race, class and gender to expand the genre.

via NYT > Books https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/19/books/review/western-fiction-race-gender.html

In NYC an Immersive Great Gatsby Takes You Back in Time

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The theatrical performance of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel, opening this month at the Park Central Hotel, is the latest in a very long, heavily sequined line of “Gatsby” adaptations.

via NYT > Books https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/19/theater/great-gatsby-immersive-nyc.html

Book Review: Beyond the Shores by Tamara J. Walker.

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In “Beyond the Shores,” the historian Tamara J. Walker explores the lives of African Americans drawn to other countries by pleasure, employment and war.

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Sunday, 18 June 2023

Saskia Hamilton Poet Who Edited Another Poets Letters Dies at 56

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In addition to her prizewinning writing, she was known for editing the correspondence between the poet Robert Lowell and the writer Elizabeth Hardwick.

via NYT > Books https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/18/books/saskia-hamilton-poet-who-edited-another-poets-letters-dies-at-56.html

Book Review: The Sullivanians by Alexander Stille

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In “The Sullivanians,” Alexander Stille recalls the heyday of an experiment in communal living that blurred the boundaries between therapists, patients and lovers.

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Book Review: By All Means Available by Michael G. Vickers

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In “By All Means Available,” the veteran strategist Michael G. Vickers tallies achievements and missteps across the Cold War and the war on terror.

via NYT > Books https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/18/books/review/by-all-means-available-michael-vickers.html

Friday, 16 June 2023

Christian Cooper and Amy Tan on How Birding Brings Them Joy: a Live Event

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The two will discuss their shared love of birding in a free live virtual event as part of The New York Times summer birding project.

via NYT > Books https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/14/science/christian-cooper-amy-tan-birding-event.html

Carol Higgins Clark Mystery Writer Is Dead at 66

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She had a modest career as an actress but was best known for following in the footsteps of her mother, the best-selling author Mary Higgins Clark.

via NYT > Books https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/16/books/carol-higgins-clark-dead.html

Thursday, 15 June 2023

9 New Books We Recommend This Week

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Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

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The Book That Changed Robert Rubins Thinking About Poverty

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The former Treasury secretary, whose new book is “The Yellow Pad,” says that Ken Auletta’s “The Underclass” convinced him that “trying to break the cycle of poverty through policy and through private efforts is not just right for moral reasons, but is enormously in the interest of all.”

via NYT > Books https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/15/books/review/robert-rubin-interview.html

Book Review: National Dish by Anya von Bremzen

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A new book digs into the histories of some of the world’s most iconic fare.

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Tuesday, 13 June 2023

Book Review: ‘Revolutionary Spring,’ by Christopher Clark

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In “Revolutionary Spring,” the Cambridge historian Christopher Clark argues for the lasting impact of the uprisings that engulfed Europe in 1848.

via NYT > Books https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/13/books/review/revolutionary-spring-christopher-clark.html

Monday, 12 June 2023

Book Review: ‘I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home,’ by Lorrie Moore

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Lorrie Moore’s new novel, “I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home,” braids a historical ghost story with a zombie romance.

via NYT > Books https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/12/books/review/lorrie-moore-i-am-homeless-if-this-is-not-my-home.html

Book Review: ‘Girlfriend on Mars,’ by Deborah Willis

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In Deborah Willis’s novel “Girlfriend on Mars,” a young woman enters a reality-TV contest to leave the planet, and her marijuana-farming boyfriend, behind.

via NYT > Books https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/12/books/girlfriend-on-mars-deborah-willis.html

WW Norton, a Defiant Book Publisher, Throws a 100th Anniversary Party

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Rita Dove, Michael Lewis and Richard Powers were among the authors who took part in a crowded, swinging party at Cipriani in Midtown Manhattan.

via NYT > Books https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/12/style/norton-100-year-anniversary-party.html

Sunday, 11 June 2023

Owen Gingerich, Astronomer Who Saw God in the Cosmos, Dies at 93

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He wrote and lectured widely, often on the theme that religion and science were not incompatible. He also chased down 600 copies of Copernicus’s landmark book.

via NYT > Books https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/11/science/space/owen-gingerich-dead.html

Book Review: ‘Burn It Down,’ by Maureen Ryan

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The journalist Maureen Ryan is mad as hell about what goes on behind the entertainment-biz scenes. Her new book tells tales, and proposes remedies.

via NYT > Books https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/11/books/review/burn-it-down-maureen-ryan.html

Friday, 9 June 2023

Summer Book Preview and 9 Thrillers to Read

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Gilbert Cruz is joined by The Times’s thriller columnist, Sarah Lyall, to talk about some great suspenseful titles to check out this summer. And the editor Joumana Khatib gives her picks for books to look out for between now and Labor Day.

via NYT > Books https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/09/books/review/summer-book-preview-and-9-thrillers-to-read.html

Book Review: ‘Say Anarcha,’ by J.C. Hallman

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“Say Anarcha” is J.C. Hallman’s meticulous biography of the enslaved woman who suffered unimaginable horrors at the hands of a lauded doctor.

via NYT > Books https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/09/books/review/say-anarcha-jc-hallman.html

New Crime Books From Katie Siegel, James Wolff and More

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In new crime novels from Victoria Kielland, James Wolff, Katie Siegel and Michael McGarrity, the past is hard to shake.

via NYT > Books https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/09/books/review/new-crime-books-june.html

Thursday, 8 June 2023

Richard E. Snyder, 93, Dies; Drove Simon & Schuster to New Heights

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In two decades of leadership at the publishing house, he helped remold a clubby book industry into a diversified and highly profitable corporate enterprise.

via NYT > Books https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/business/media/richard-e-snyder-dead.html

Wednesday, 7 June 2023

Book Review: ‘Lament for Julia,’ by Susan Taubes

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The enigmatic Susan Taubes wrote the coming-of-age novel “Lament for Julia” in the 1960s; 54 years after her death, its gothic splendors shine.

via NYT > Books https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/07/books/review/lament-for-julia-susan-taubes.html

Monday, 5 June 2023

Ama Ata Aidoo, Groundbreaking Ghanaian Writer, Dies at 81

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The playwright, novelist and poet was a leading African writer who explored the complexities faced by modern women living in the shadow of colonialism.

via NYT > Books https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/books/ama-ata-aidoo-dead.html

Book Review: ‘Be Mine,’ by Richard Ford

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“Be Mine” is the fifth book featuring Ford’s keen observer of American life, Frank Bascombe.

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Sunday, 4 June 2023

Book Review: ‘Lucky Dogs,’ by Helen Schulman

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In “Lucky Dogs,” Helen Schulman spins a #MeToo case into an irreverent but surprisingly sympathetic look at two women on opposite sides of a sexual assault scandal.

via NYT > Books https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/04/books/review-lucky-dogs-helen-schulman.html

Book Review: ‘August Blue,’ by Deborah Levy

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An artist refashions herself amid personal and global crises in Deborah Levy’s new novel, “August Blue.”

via NYT > Books https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/04/books/review/deborah-levy-august-blue.html

Friday, 2 June 2023

Book Review: ‘Into the Amazon’ by Larry Rohter

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Larry Rohter’s “Into the Amazon” celebrates the exploits of Cândido Rondon, the trailblazing explorer, scientist, statesman and more.

via NYT > Books https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/02/books/review/into-the-amazon-larry-rohter.html

Group Challenges Arkansas Law That Criminalizes Access to Some Books

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A lawsuit says the edict “forces bookstores and libraries to self-censor in a way that is antithetical to their core purposes.”

via NYT > Books https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/02/books/arkansas-book-banning-law-lawsuit.html

Book Review: ‘Code Red’ and ‘Calling the Moon: 16 Period Stories From BIPOC Authors’

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Decades after “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret,” an anthology and a novel let readers see periods through the eyes of diverse protagonists.

via NYT > Books https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/02/books/review/calling-the-moon-aida-salazar-yamile-saied-mendez-code-red-joy-mccullough.html

Book Review: ‘All the Sinners Bleed,’ by S.A. Cosby

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Stephen King reviews S.A. Cosby’s latest novel, “All the Sinners Bleed.”

via NYT > Books https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/02/books/review/sa-cosby-all-the-sinners-bleed.html

Newly Published, From Graphic Novels to Hot Dogs

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A selection of recently published books.

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Thursday, 1 June 2023

How KIRAC Trailed Michel Houellebecq From the Bedroom to the Courtroom

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The art collective KIRAC was embroiled in court battles over a film about the author’s sex life. Is the dispute a performance? A marketing stunt? Or a genuine cultural feud?

via NYT > Books https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/01/arts/design/kirac-michel-houllebecq.html

Amitai Etzioni, 94, Dies; Envisioned a Society Built on the Common Good

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A sociologist, he advised U.S. presidents and other Western leaders while fathering communitarianism, a political middle ground between the left and the right.

via NYT > Books https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/01/us/amitai-etzioni-dead.html
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