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6 Paperbacks to Read This Week
Selected paperbacks from the Book Review, including titles by Jenny Odell, Deepti Kapoor, Leila Philip and more.
Published by By Shreya Chattopadhyay in Books
6 Paperbacks to Read This Week
Selected paperbacks from the Book Review, including titles by Jenny Odell, Deepti Kapoor, Leila Philip and more.
publicat de By Shreya ChattopadhyayAre These Topics Too Adult for the Youngest Readers? Take a Look.
These children’s picture books have been banned. To some, the topics — racism, sexuality, transgender identity and gay relationships — are not appropriate for very young readers.
publicat de By Elizabeth A.Tim Dorsey, Who Turned Florida’s Quirks Into Comic Gold, Dies at 62
Long before Florida Man became a meme, he mined the Sunshine State’s weirdness for enough material to fill 26 darkly funny crime novels.
publicat de By Clay RisenJohn Nichols, Author of ‘The Milagro Beanfield War,’ Dies at 83
After decamping from New York to New Mexico, he wrote what was, for a time, among the most widely read novels about Latinos.
publicat de By Sam RobertsBetty Rollin, Who Wrote Candidly About Her Breast Cancer, Dies at 87
Her coping with illness was the subject of a popular memoir, “First, You Cry.” In “Last Wish,” a best seller, she wrote about helping her mother end her life.
publicat de By Richard SandomirBob Contant, Bohemian Bookseller Who Held On, Dies at 80
A founder of the St. Mark’s Bookshop in the East Village, he prided himself on stocking titles that were not “too popular” and stayed in business for four decades.
publicat de By Sam RobertsEat the Rich? How About Dine With Them Instead.
In “Flight of the WASP,” the inveterate dirt-digger Michael Gross gives America’s elite families the white-glove treatment.
publicat de By Alexandra JacobsJustin Torres, Author of ‘Blackouts,’ Wins National Book Award for Fiction
Ned Blackhawk received the nonfiction award, with “The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History.”
publicat de By Elizabeth A.In ‘Network of Lies,’ Brian Stelter Builds the Case Against Fox News
His book is a thrilling account of the conspiracy to steal the 2020 election, the attack on the Capitol, Tucker Carlson’s defenestration and more.
publicat de By Dwight GarnerHer Name Is Barbra, but It Wasn’t Always
In a chatty and candid new memoir, Barbra Streisand talks about her early determination to be famous and tallies the hurdles and helpers she met along the way.
publicat de By Alexandra Jacobs‘I Feel a Human Deterioration’
The Israeli writer Etgar Keret has spent the last few weeks trying to make sense of the violence and loss around him. So far, he can’t.
publicat de By Lulu Garcia-navarroLouise Meriwether Dies at 100; in 1970, a New, Black Literary Voice
Writing of life in Harlem, she emerged at the same time as Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou but never achieved their fame, though James Baldwin was an admirer.
publicat de By Richard SandomirFive Louise Glück Poems to Get You Started
The American writer, who won a Nobel Prize in 2020, wrote with cool clarity and often puckish wit.
publicat de By Gregory CowlesEven Michael Lewis Can’t Make a Hero Out of Sam Bankman-Fried
“Going Infinite,” Lewis’s new book about the disgraced crypto billionaire, defies the author’s winning formula of upbeat narratives and unsung genius.
publicat de By Jennifer SzalaiA ‘Really Online’ Writer Looks Beyond the Internet
Eliza Clark’s debut novel was a hit on TikTok. With her next book, “Penance,” she aims for literary longevity over viral success.
publicat de By Eleanor StanfordHe Dissected Trump. Now Michael Wolff Performs an Autopsy on Fox News.
In “The Fall,” Wolff predicts the collapse of Rupert Murdoch’s cable network and recounts the recent tumult there through a barrage of fuzzily sourced trash talk.
publicat de By A.o. ScottWhat Moves Jayne Anne Phillips Most in a Book?
“Language, specific to the writer’s voice, rhythmic, weighted, moves me,” says the author, whose new novel is “Night Watch.” “Language is always the living soul of a narrative.”
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