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News Articles: Book Reviews

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Hop in: Richard Ford and Lorrie Moore offer unforgettable summer road trips

Ford brings his Frank Bascombe saga to an end in Be Mine, while Moore weaves together a fragmentary Civil War plot with an off-kilter vision of the afterlife in I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home.

June 27, 2023
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  • Maureen Corrigan

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  • Book Reviews

3 works in translation: History and literature intertwined

It is easy to act as if fiction and history were separate. But they cannot be completely divided. Jenny Erpenbeck's Kairos and Oksana Lutsyshyna's Ivan and Phoebe help readers connect with time past.

June 26, 2023
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  • Lily Meyer

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Two new novels illustrate just how hard it is to find a foothold in America

Brandon Taylor's The Late Americans is a sexually-explicit, cynical novel about young people striving. Such Kindness, by Andre Dubus III, grapples with injury, addiction, masculinity and loneliness.

June 21, 2023
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  • Maureen Corrigan

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  • Book Reviews

'Rich White Men' reinforces the argument that inequality harms us all

While not a new concept, Garrett Neiman makes distinct contributions to the conversation; as a rich white man, he has insider's access to that population — and doesn't shy away from self-indictment.

June 21, 2023
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  • Ericka Taylor

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  • Book Reviews

Pain and pleasure do the tango in the engrossing new novel 'Kairos'

A young student in East Berlin falls in love with a much older writer in the run-up to the fall of the Berlin Wall. It is a love story and a rich portrait of people watching their country disappear.

June 20, 2023
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  • John Powers

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'The Dos and Donuts of Love' is a delectably delightful, reality TV tale

Bangladeshi-Irish author Adiba Jaigirdar's latest YA romance promises a spoonful of drama and a dash of deception, leading to a well-baked resolution.

June 18, 2023
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  • Alethea Kontis
A new vision of Goldilocks, sipping tea

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A husband and wife reimagine fairy tales with Black children in mind

In their latest book CROWNED: Magical Folk and Fairy Tales from the Diaspora, Kahran and Regis Bethencourt retell fairy and folk tales with Black children as the main characters.

June 16, 2023
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  • Destinee Adams

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  • Book Reviews

In 'Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge,' Helen Ellis' home life takes center stage

Ellis' latest collection is full of hilarious, off-the-wall personal — and, at times, intimate — essays about home life and marriage.

June 15, 2023
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  • Heller McAlpin

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  • Book Reviews

'To Name the Bigger Lie' is an investigation of the nature of truth

Sarah Viren's memoir, drawing from two life episodes, has the page-turning quality of a thriller. But instead of solving mysteries, she untangles philosophical tensions in pursuit of what is real.

June 14, 2023
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  • Kristen Martin

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  • Book Reviews

5 new mysteries and thrillers for the start of summer

These new releases might take you from Europe to Africa to the Middle East to Russia and the United States — without leaving your hammock.

June 12, 2023
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  • Bethanne Patrick

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  • Book Reviews

'The Wind Knows My Name' is a reference and a refrain in the search for home

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 gangs in El Salvador in 2019 — and their shared experience.

June 10, 2023
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  • Marcela Davison Avilés

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  • Book Reviews

Relationships are the true heart of 1940s dystopian novel 'Kallocain'

Karin Boye's novel is an outlier in that it was authored by a woman and, though narrated by a man, still expresses interest in women's inner life and acknowledges the subtleties of sexism.

June 09, 2023
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  • Ilana Masad

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  • Book Reviews

'All the Sinners Bleed' elegantly walks a fine line between horror and crime fiction

S.A. Cosby's latest is a dark, wildly entertaining crime novel with religious undertones — and one that tackles timely issues while never losing itself or sounding preachy.

June 09, 2023
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  • Gabino Iglesias

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  • Book Reviews

'The Talk' is an epic portrait of an artist making his way through hardships

Despite its weighty, multi-tiered approach — this is not, on multiple levels, an easy read — Darrin Bell's debut graphic memoir is difficult to put down.

June 08, 2023
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  • Tahneer Oksman

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  • Book Reviews

Two summer suspense novels delight in overturning the 'woman-in-trouble' plot

Megan Abbott's Beware the Woman centers on a pregnant newlywed who finds herself isolated in her husband's family cottage. Katie Williams' My Murder is told from the perspective of a murdered woman.

June 07, 2023
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  • Maureen Corrigan
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