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News Articles: Book Reviews

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'The Late Americans' is not just a campus novel

Brandon Taylor deftly explores the idea of youth's possibilities and the constraints of time, space, class and wealth disparities through the intersecting lives university students and townspeople.

June 05, 2023
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  • Thúy Đinh

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  • Book Reviews

3 new books in translation blend liberation with darkness

The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu, The House on Via Gemito, and Cousins together form a tour of human darkness where liberation comes in many forms.

May 30, 2023
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  • Lily Meyer

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  • Book Reviews

4 new books by Filipino authors to read this spring

As we near the close of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we bring you a list of new books by Filipino authors — ranging from a noir graphic novel to the latest from Gina Apostol.

May 25, 2023
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By:
  • Malaka Gharib
During World War II, the American Red Cross Clubmobile corps (shown here on an airfield in England in 1943) provided donuts, coffee and friendly conversation to the troops.

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  • Book Reviews

Luis Alberto Urrea pays tribute to WWII's forgotten volunteers — including his mother

The author's mother was a Red Cross volunteer assigned to Patton's 3rd Army — she was with the troops who helped liberate Buchenwald. Urrea's new woman-centered wartime novel is Good Night, Irene.

May 22, 2023
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  • Maureen Corrigan

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  • Book Reviews

In 'Julieta and the Romeos,' a teen aims to uncover the identity of her mystery man

In Maria E. Andreu's latest YA romance, Julieta Toledo escapes into writing, the perfect haven for her increasingly runaway imagination. There she connects with the mysterious "Happily Ever Drafter."

May 20, 2023
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  • Alethea Kontis

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  • Book Reviews

5 new fantasy novels invigorate old tropes

Spell books, dragons, mermaids, fairies and a magic circus all take on new life in the pages of these five enchanting tales hitting shelves in May and June.

May 18, 2023
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  • Caitlyn Paxson

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  • Books

Stories in 'Sidle Creek' offer an insider look at Appalachia

The 22 stories in Sidle Creek charm, surprise, and convey a deep love of the people and place — the Appalachian plateau of western Pennsylvania — that author Jolene McIlwain has long called home.

May 17, 2023
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  • Ilana Masad

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  • Book Reviews

'The Three of Us' tracks a married couple and the wife's manipulative best friend

We've seen jealous, possessive friends and housewreckers with no boundaries before, though perhaps not quite so thoroughly, unapologetically unlikeable as in Ore Agbaje-Williams's debut novel.

May 16, 2023
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  • Heller McAlpin

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  • Book Reviews

In 'Quietly Hostile,' Samantha Irby trains a cynical eye inward

In her fourth collection of essays, the bestselling author and TV writer renews her love/hate vows with the human race — as well as her relationship with her own flaws and failings.

May 15, 2023
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  • Jason Heller

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  • Book Reviews

'Yellowface' takes white privilege to a sinister level

R.F. Kuang's first foray outside fantasy is a well-executed, gripping, fast-paced novel about the nuances of the publishing world when an author is desperate enough to do anything for success.

May 15, 2023
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  • Keishel Williams

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  • Book Reviews

Victor LaValle's novel 'Lone Women' is infused with dread and horror — and more

This is a wonderful novel that expertly combines adventure and terror, sprinkled with The Changeling author's mordant wit and assured prose. It is a horror novel, but it's also a refreshing western.

May 12, 2023
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  • Michael Schaub

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  • Book Reviews

'The East Indian' imagines the life of the first Indian immigrant to now-U.S. land

Brinda Charry aims to recover, reclaim, and reframe the little-known, barely footnoted history of the earliest Indian immigrant on record to what is now the United States.

May 11, 2023
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  • Jenny Bhatt

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  • Book Reviews

When art you love was made by 'Monsters': A critic lays out the 'Fan's Dilemma'

Do geniuses get a "hall pass" for their behavior? Or, do we "cancel" the art of artists who've done "monstrous" things? That's the question Claire Dederer tackles in her new book.

May 10, 2023
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  • Maureen Corrigan

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  • Book Reviews

'Warrior Girl Unearthed' revisits the 'Firekeeper's Daughter' cast of characters

In this gripping follow-up to Angeline Boulley's much-lauded debut, we return to Sugar Island and meet the next generation of girls in the Firekeeper family.

May 10, 2023
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  • Caitlyn Paxson

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  • Book Reviews

'Wild Dances' puts consequences of a long-ago, faraway conflict at center

By ingeniously weaving improbable and conflicting forces that make up his personal history, Eurovision expert William Lee Adams affirms an idea of home that yearns to transcend space and time.

May 09, 2023
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By:
  • Thúy Đinh
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