Book Review: ‘The Second Coming,’ by Garth Risk Hallberg Image Date Monday, May 20, 2024 - 3:02 AM Description In Garth Risk Hallberg’s new novel, a teenage rebel and her father reconnect amid a sea of their own troubles.
Book Review: ‘Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy,’ by Elizabeth Beller Image Date Monday, May 20, 2024 - 3:01 AM Description In “Once Upon a Time,” Elizabeth Beller examines the life and death of the woman who was best known for marrying John F. Kennedy Jr.
Book Review: ‘Exhibit,’ by R.O. Kwon Date Sunday, May 19, 2024 - 10:37 AM Description R.O. Kwon’s second novel, “Exhibit,” sees two Korean American women finding pleasure in a bond that knits creative expression and sadomasochism.
Books With Lesson on Civil War Image Date Sunday, May 19, 2024 - 3:00 AM Description Three new books show us why the United States should do everything it can to nip the possibility in the bud.
Book Review: ‘Mood Swings,’ by Frankie Barnet Date Saturday, May 18, 2024 - 3:00 AM Description In Frankie Barnet’s novel, “Mood Swings,” two young women work to craft meaningful lives as society collapses around them.
Book Review: ‘Wait,’ by Gabriella Burnham Date Saturday, May 18, 2024 - 3:00 AM Description In “Wait,” Gabriella Burnham examines island life from a fresh angle.
Book Review: ‘Challenger,’ by Adam Higginbotham Image Date Friday, May 17, 2024 - 2:12 PM Description As recounted in Adam Higginbotham’s “Challenger,” the 1986 tragedy that riveted a nation was a preventable lesson in hubris and human error.
Book Review: ‘Night Stories: Folktales From Latin America,’ by Liniers, and ‘Plain Jane and the Mermaid,’ by Vera Brosgol Image Date Friday, May 17, 2024 - 3:01 AM Description A comics collection’s sibling narrators and a graphic novel’s hapless heroine change their stories as they go along.
Book Review: ‘Rebel Girl,’ by Kathleen Hanna Date Thursday, May 16, 2024 - 6:47 AM Description In her intimate memoir, “Rebel Girl,” the punk-rock heroine Kathleen Hanna recalls a life of trauma, triumph and riot grrrl rebellion.
Book Review: ‘Massacre in the Clouds,’ by Kim A. Wagner Date Wednesday, May 15, 2024 - 3:02 AM Description In a new book, the historian Kim A. Wagner investigates the slaughter by U.S. troops of nearly 1,000 people in the Philippines in 1906 — an atrocity long overlooked in this country.