10 books to add to your reading list in May
Critic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising titles, fiction and nonfiction, to consider for your May reading list. Whether it's first…
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Colm Tóibín's latest story is united by the tension between secret and revelation
Book Review Big Island By Colm ToibínScribner Book Company: 304 pages, $28If you buy books linked to on our site,…
Review of 'The Tattoo Artist of Auschwitz': a love story and a story of the Holocaust
“This is a love story,” says Lali Sokolov (Harvey Keitel) at the beginning of “The Tattoo Artist of Auschwitz,” as…
Review of 'The Sympathizer': a moving story about friendship
What is more psychically exhausting, in fiction and I suppose in life, than the story of the double agent, the…
The novel 'Fervor' separates psychosis, spirits and family
Book Review Fervor By Toby LloydAvid Reader Press: 288 pages, $28If you buy books linked to on our site, The…
Maurice Carlos Ruffin's 'American Daughters' Confronts the Legacy of Slavery
Book Review American Daughters: A Novel By Maurice Carlos RuffinOne world: 304 pages, $28If you buy books linked to on…
'American Fiction' and 'Slow Horses' Win USC Scripter Awards
The writers of the Oscar-nominated film “American Fiction” and the Apple TV+ series “Slow Horses” took top honors at the…
The novel 'Ours' by poet Phillip B. Williams shows more of a road map than a utopia
Book Review Our By Phillip B. WilliamsViking: 592 pages, $32If you buy books linked to on our site, The Times…
Opinion: Will too many transplants change Montana?
My version of Livingston, Montana, where I've lived since 1987, began with a kind of artistic, impoverished chain migration: My…
Scott Guild's 'Plastic' Book and Album Are Dark and Entertaining
On the shelf The plastic By the Scott GuildPantheon: 304 pages, $28 If you buy books linked to on our…