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July 8, 2025

new books

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Book Review: Wally Lamb explores human cruelty, grace in prison with `The River is Waiting’

July 5, 2025 Anita Snow

Corby Ledbetter is in trouble. In Wally Lamb’s new novel, “The River Is Waiting,” Corby has lost his job as a commercial artist and has developed a secret addiction to alcohol and pills, setting him […]

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Book Review: New biography goes deep on rise, fall of Talking Heads

June 28, 2025 Ann Levin

Talking Heads fans, rejoice! Hard on the heels of the re-release of “Stop Making Sense,” the 1984 Jonathan Demme film widely considered the best concert movie ever made, Jonathan Gould has published a comprehensive biography […]

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Book Review: Jess Walter’s ‘So Far Gone’ sets redemption story in fractured, modern America

June 21, 2025 Rob Merrill

When the history of the United States in 2025 is written, perhaps one of the best things that will be said is: “Well, it made for some great art.” Consider “So Far Gone,” the new […]

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Book Review: In ‘The Listeners,’ Maggie Stiefvater approaches WWII with distinct voice

June 14, 2025 Rachel S. Hunt

Maggie Stiefvater has brought her magical prose with her to her first adult novel. “The Listeners” takes place at a luxury hotel in West Virginia as World War II begins. In need of a place […]

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Book Review: Donal Ryan’s spellbinding sequel in 21 voices continues saga of small Irish town

June 7, 2025 Ann Levin

In 2014 Donal Ryan published a novel in the U.S. called “The Spinning Heart” about a rural Irish town after the 2008 financial collapse. It was narrated by a chorus of voices, one per chapter, […]

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Book Review: New essays from writer Richard Russo on how his life informs his art

May 31, 2025 Rob Merrill

Richard Russo, whose “Fool” trilogy is beloved for the characters he created to populate a fictional upstate New York town, freely admits he’s always pulled from his real life to write his novels. “I was […]

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Book Review: Nate Bargatze brings comedy to page with ‘Big Dumb Eyes’

May 17, 2025 Rob Merrill

It’s a rite of passage for all comedians: Work like crazy on the stand-up circuit, hit it big, record live specials for a streaming platform, and then write a book that can never quite measure […]

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Book Review:  Joan Didion therapy session notes published in “Notes to John”

May 3, 2025 Anita Snow

Reading the newly released “Notes to John,” it’s hard not to of wonder how the late author Joan Didion would feel about having her personal notes from a series of painful therapy sessions converted into […]

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Book Review: David Denby profiles 4 ’eminent’ Jews who changed post-WWII American culture

April 19, 2025 Ann Levin

When Lytton Strachey set out to write “Eminent Victorians” in 1918, he sought to enliven the stuffy Victorian conventions of biographical writing by portraying his subjects with warts and all. In his new book “Eminent […]

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Book Review: ‘Sour Cherry’ shows author’s stunning talent for modern fairy tales

April 12, 2025 Donna Edwards

The modern fairy tale is a tricky thing, what with phones and cities and all the trappings of now that tend to suck the magic out of a story and make it impossible to suspend […]

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