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5 books we can’t wait to read in March
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (271+ words) There’s a little bit of everything coming to libraries and bookstores in March. Dirt-spilling superstar memoirs? Showbiz survivor Liza Minnelli has you covered. Bound-to-be-bestselling thrillers? Tana French is on it, with the return of a beloved character last seen in…...
Review: ‘A Burning’ followup ‘A Guardian and a Thief’ is a ‘classic’
11+ mon, 5+ day ago (689+ words) Fiction: A family prepares to leave India against a cascade of obstacles. At just a hair more than 200 pages, “A Guardian and a Thief” manages superbly (and efficiently) to be many things: A beguilingly simple tale. A complicated morality play....
Review: Salman Rushdie still at top of his powers with ‘Eleventh Hour’
10+ mon, 2+ day ago (447+ words) Call him a master wordsmith, formal innovator, Booker prize winner, Nobel laureate-in-waiting, a sorcerer. Call him Sir Salman Rushdie. He slips into a story as gracefully as Laurence Olivier vanished into a Shakespearean role. Rushdie’s towering talent is evident throughout…...
Review: Young woman, much older man equals problems in ‘Big Kiss, Bye-Bye’
10+ mon, 5+ day ago (309+ words) The #MeToo movement may have faded from the news, but its influence still reverberates in the literary world. Around the same time, the woman’s former high school English teacher writes to her, triggering memories of a day in his classroom…...
Review: A dying woman’s choices are unusual, and infuriating
10+ mon, 6+ day ago (186+ words) “Some Bright Nowhere” is infuriating, and it’s supposed to be. Death, in short, is infuriating. We also spend time with both of them when they’re not together, Eliot with a cooking club whose members are a kind of casually outraged…...
Review: An artist and his would-be boyfriend are ‘Minor Black Figures’
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (422+ words) Brandon Taylor’s fourth book, “Minor Black Figures,” begins in New York City in the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. Soon, Wyeth meets Keating, a handsome odd-jobber, busy in the city doing a “little of this, little…...
Review: ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ writer spills the tea on her books’ origins
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (324+ words) Margaret Atwood’s new “Book of Lives” is subtitled “a memoir of sorts” — and in fact, it’s a venerable sort, a cradle-to-rocking-chair telling of a celebrated life. Today, most books of this type are produced by movie stars or musicians, while…...
Review: Basically, be glad you didn’t have Arundhati Roy’s mother
1+ year, 1+ week ago (604+ words) Nonfiction: Her “masterpiece” memoir details the award winner’s bond with the woman she refers to as “Mrs. Roy.” In “Mother Mary Comes to Me,” the Booker Prize winner (for “The God of Small Things”) unpacks memories of her childhood and…...
Reese Witherspoon is teaming with bestseller Harlan Coben on her first suspense novel
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (229+ words) NEW YORK — Reese Witherspoon’s latest literary news marks a new direction for the Oscar-winning actor, producer and founder of her own book club. Grand Central Publishing announced Wednesday that the ''Legally Blonde'' and ''Big Little Lies'' star is teaming with…...
Review: ‘I Love Dick’ author moves to the Iron Range in sordid novel
11+ mon, 1+ week ago (194+ words) Local fiction: “The Four Spent the Day Together” traces the life of a novelist who moves to Minnesota, hoping for a fresh start. Then, there’s a murder. Can a cover doom a book? How come? The publisher seems to hope…...