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Try " G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century," by Beverly Gage, " King: A Life," by Jonathan Eig or " American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert ...

100 Best Books of the 21st Century: As voted on by 503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

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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Blindsided by 'The Most': This is a superb novel of a marriage at its breakpoint. July 30, 2024 • The story takes place in Newark, over the course of a single day in 1957, which we experience ...

1. Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel. (Knopf) 28 Rave • 9 Positive • 3 Mixed • 1 Pan. Read an interview with Emily St. John Mandel here. "In Sea of Tranquility, Mandel offers one of her finest novels and one of her most satisfying forays into the arena of speculative fiction yet, but it is her ability to convincingly inhabit ...

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Constance Grady on Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (). Restoring the legacies of ill-forgotten books is one of our duties as critics. Grady's take on "the least famous sister in a family of celebrated geniuses" makes a good case for Wildfell Hall's place alongside Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre in the Romantic canon. "[T]he heart of this book is a portrait of a woman ...

OK, how about some. Featuring 341 industry-first reviews of fiction, nonfiction, children's, and YA books; also in this special mysteries & thrillers issue: Attica Locke, Ron Stallworth, Sara Varon, Maureen Johnson; and much more. One of the most coveted designations in the book industry, the Kirkus Star marks books of exceptional merit.

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"The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois," the first novel by Jeffers, a celebrated poet, is many things at once: a moving coming-of-age saga, an examination of race and an excavation of American ...

Best Book Reviews of the Year Best of 2021 Book Marks. Adam Morgan. Adam Morgan is a culture journalist and critic whose work appears in Esquire, Inverse, and elsewhere. He founded the Chicago Review of Books, the Southern Review of Books, and The Frontlist.

33. Elizabeth Finch by Julian Barnes. Julian Barnes's latest is that "old-fashioned thing, a novel of ideas", said John Self in The Times. It is narrated by Neil, a former actor, but is ...

The Book Against Death. Elias Canetti, trans. Peter Filkins. Rave. Literary Hub's Bookmarks is the definitive source for book reviews and critical conversations about contemporary writing.

Hot Stuff: The summer's 8 best romance novels are thrilling, fun, and resonant romps. Michael Mann's Heat 2 novel ups the temperature. The Candy House review: Jennifer Egan returns with a chaotic ...

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.

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100 Best Books of the 21st Century: As voted on by 503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review ...

Books about climate change are a dime a dozen these days, but a new one by Porter Fox, who grew up on the water and whose father built boats for a living, treads new ground, writes Associated Press reviewer Rob Merrill. ... Book Review: Brathwaite flexes his writing chops and expands Black literary canon with debut 'Rage' ...

She tells him the story of her life, narrated as a separate story, which is the heart and bulk of the novel. Frankie's early years in 1950s Cork are a William Trevor-esque Protestant youth of ...

With that in mind, most of my picks for the best book reviews of 2022 were written in the first person this year. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub's "Rotten Tomatoes for books.". Adam Dalva on Stefan Zweig's Chess Story, translated by Joel Rotenberg (Los Angeles Review of Books) Dalva's review of Chess Story is a great example of ...

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David Grann is the inaugural recipient of the Author of the Year award from Barnes & Noble in 2023, celebrating his impressive array of achievements that began in 2009 with The Lost City of Z and extended into 2023 with The Wager and the film adaptation of Killers of the Flower Moon.Grann's writing style, mixing thriller-like stakes and riveting history, solidifies him as one of the literary ...

Hamnet. By Maggie O'Farrell. A bold feat of imagination and empathy, this novel gives flesh and feeling to a historical mystery: how the death of Shakespeare's 11-year-old son, Hamnet, in 1596 ...

In his latest book, How Painting Happens (and Why it Matters), Martin Gayford seeks to unravel those mysteries through a combination of comparative analysis, artist interviews, and anecdotal ...

100 Best Books of the 21st Century: As voted on by 503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review ...

This early graphic novel from bestselling and award-winning creators Helaine Becker and Kevin Sylvester is sure to win the hearts of emerging readers with its lighthearted humour, schoolyard drama ...

Eudora Welty. On E.B. White's "Charlotte's Web". Eudora Welty's review of this timeless tale is a sheer delight, starting from its headline ("Life in the Barn Was Very Good") and its ...