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Book Review: Sally Rooney’s latest novel 'Intermezzo' examines unacknowledged grief
Ivan and Peter Koubek’s father has just died, but neither seems willing to talk much about it, let alone to one another. After all, it’s not like the two brothers are even friends. Peter, the eldest by a decade, pities his awkward, 22-year-old brother, a competitive chess player...
Book Review: Crystal King combines food, myths and surrealism with 'In the Garden of Monsters'
Salvador Dali hires a young artist with a striking similarity to the goddess Proserpina to model for him in the Sacro Bosco, a mystical garden almost as surreal as Dali himself. But the beautiful Julia Lombardi quickly finds there’s more tying her to the gods of Greek and Roman myths than just...
Book Review: Wright Thompson exposes deep racist roots of the Mississippi Delta in ‘The Barn’
“The barn… is long and narrow with sliding doors in the middle,” writes Wright Thompson in ‘The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi.’ “Nobody knows when it was built exactly but its cypress-board walls were already weathered in the summer of 1955.” What...
New York magazine says its star political reporter is on leave after a relationship was disclosed
New York magazine says that its highly regarded Washington correspondent, Olivia Nuzzi, is on leave after disclosing that she violated the publication's standards by having a personal relationship with a former reporting subject. The newsletter Status, which broke the story, and The...
Arundhati Roy's first memoir, 'Mother Mary Comes to Me,' to be published in September 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy's first memoir is coming out next fall, a book inspired by the death of her mother. Scribner announced Friday that the Indian author and activist's “Mother Mary Comes to Me” will be released in September 2025. Roy, best known...
Rare G.K. Chesterton essay on mystery writing is itself a mystery
NEW YORK (AP) — When he wasn't working on mystery stories, and he completed hundreds, G.K. Chesterton liked to think of new ways to tell them. Detective fiction had grown a little dull, the British author wrote in a rarely seen essay from the 1930s published this week in The Strand...
Percival Everett and Rachel Kushner are among 6 Booker Prize finalists
LONDON (AP) — American writers Percival Everett and Rachel Kushner are among six finalists shortlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction this year, organizers said Monday. Five of the six authors are women — the largest number in the prize's 55-year history. ...
Book Review: Couples mix in Paris as feminist voices rise in Lauren Elkin’s novel `Scaffolding’
If you’re a Francophile with an interest in psychoanalysis, Lauren Elkin’s smart and steamy debut novel, “Scaffolding,” may be for you. Even if you’re just a reader looking for an intriguing story of desire and love among a bright corps of professionals in France, Elkin’s...
Percival Everett, Rachel Kushner and Miranda July are fiction nominees for National Book Awards
NEW YORK (AP) — Percival Everett's “James,” his acclaimed retelling of Mark Twain's “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” is a fiction nominee for the National Book Awards. The long list of 10 also includes Rachel Kushner's innovative thriller, “Creation Lake,” and novelist-filmmaker...
$10,000 literary award named for the late author Gabe Hudson goes to Ayana Mathis' 'The Unsettled'
NEW YORK (AP) — A $10,000 literary award named for the late author-editor-podcaster Gabe Hudson has been established by the publisher McSweeney's, where Hudson once worked. The inaugural winner, Ayana Mathis' “The Unsettled,” was announced Thursday, on what would have been...
