Book Reviews

Book Review: Iris Mwanza goes into ‘The Lions’ Den’ with a zealous, timely debut novel for Pride

Grace Zulu is a hotheaded novice lawyer ready to change the world, and her very first case just might do it.

Book Review: An unarmed game warden tracks a killer through the Maine wilderness in ‘Pitch Dark’

Book Review: Serena Kaylor’s ‘Calculation’ proves predictable romance can be uproarious, nail-biting

Book Review: ‘Swole’ explores what masculinity could be in a hyperconnected, TikTok-imaged world

Book Review: ‘Margo’s Got Money Troubles’ tells a tale of modern love and success

‘Star Trek’ icon George Takei will keep telling his Japanese American story

“Star Trek” icon George Takei has a new picture book out for children ages called “My Lost Freedom,” tackling the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans, including children, labeled enemies during World War II. (May 30)

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Book Review: What dangers does art hold? Writer Rachel Cusk explores it in ‘Parade’

With her new novel “Parade,” the writer Rachel Cusk returns with a searching look at the pain artists can capture — and inflict.

Book Review: Yume Kitasei explores space in a heist-driven action adventure novel

Maya believes she can find the Stardust Grail, an object that could be the secret to allowing her best friend Auncle to reproduce and preserve the Frenro species.

Book Review: Glamour and tragedy intertwine in Griffin Dunne’s memoir ‘The Friday Afternoon Club’

Actor and producer Griffin Dunne grew up in New York and Los Angeles with the glitterati all around.

Book Review: Katie Ledecky dishes on what makes an Olympic legend in ‘Just Add Water’

Katie Ledecky didn’t dream of becoming an Olympian as a kid. It was just something she and her brother did at a pool in Maryland that she describes as “maximum chill.”

Book Review: Carol LaHines’ chilling novel chronicles a jilted woman’s descent into madness

Olivia, a literature professor whose field of study is Dante, was madly in love with her husband, Andy.

Book Review: ‘Miss May Does Not Exist’ is an engaging study of enigmatic Hollywood figure Elaine May

Groundbreaking comedian, writer and filmmaker Elaine May charted her own fearlessly original path in Hollywood and the theater world throughout decades.

Book Review: ‘When the Sea Came Alive’ expands understanding of D-Day invasion

Garrett Graff chronicles the Allied invasion of Normandy in “When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day.”

Book Review: Indigenous author explores charged issue of blood lines in his debut novel `Fire Exit’

Morgan Talty’s debut novel is narrated by a white man named Charles, who lives across the river from the Penobscot Nation.

Book Review: From Crichton and Patterson, ‘Eruption’ is poised to be seismic publishing event

Michael Crichton pulls off a “Jurassic Park”-like resurrection, posthumously releasing a new thriller, “Eruption,” with James Patterson, the king of co-authoring.

Book Review: In ‘Farewell Amethystine,’ a private eye hunts for a beautiful woman’s ex-husband

In “Farewell Amethystine,” the 16th novel in Walter Mosely’s series featuring Los Angeles private detective Easy Rawlins, a beautiful woman hires him to look for her missing ex-husband.

Book Review: So you think the culture wars are new? Shakespeare expert James Shapiro begs to differ

Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro knows the power of free theater. The Columbia University professor was advising New York’s Public Theater when its 2017 production of “Julius Caesar” sparked an uproar for drawing parallels between the Roman tyrant and Donald Trump.

Book Review: A dark secret exposed about a World War II internment camp in ‘First Frost’

In 1964, Walt Longmire’s football career at Southern Cal ended, so he enlisted in the Marines. On his way to boot camp, his truck broke down near the desert town of Bone Valley, Arizona.

Book Review: Emil Ferris tackles big issues through a small child with a monster obsession

Emil Ferris follows up her visually stunning 2017 debut graphic novel with its concluding half, “My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book 2.”

Book Review: Twin brothers, one religious, one not, go on a wild and wacky road trip through South

Mayer Belkin is deeply engrossed in his study of Torah when he receives some shocking news. His mother has taken her own life, leaving behind a suicide note in which she reveals that Mayer and his twin, David, are not in fact Jewish.

Book Review: ‘Ascent to Power’ studies how Harry Truman overcame lack of preparation in transition

David L. Roll recounts Harry Truman’s rocky transition to the presidency in “Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt’s Shadow and Remade the World.”

Book Review: ‘Cujo’ character returns as one of 12 stories in Stephen King’s ‘You Like It Darker’

Stephen King returns with a collection of 12 stories, “You Like It Darker,” publishing on Tuesday. Is it ‘darker, than any of the more than 60 books King has written in his illustrious career?

Book Review: A grandfather’s 1,500-page family history undergirds Claire Messud’s latest novel

Claire Messud, bestselling author of 2006’s “The Emperor’s Children,” has a new novel out this spring called “This Strange Eventful History.”

Book Review: Veronica Roth taps into her Polish roots for ‘When Among Crows,’ a lore-packed novella

Dymitr is on a secret, personal mission, and it starts with facing the creature who’s guarding the fern flower as it blooms for the summer solstice.

Book Review: Anonymous public servants are the heart of George Stephanopoulos’ ‘Situation Room’

ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos charts the history of the White House room where some of the biggest intelligence crises have been handled in “The Situation Room.”

Book Review: ‘Challenger’ is definitive account of shuttle disaster and missteps that led to tragedy

Adam Higginbotham writes the history of the 1986 space shuttle Challenger disaster in “Challenger.” In his review, The Associated Press’ Andrew DeMillo writes that Higginbotham provides the most definitive account of the explosion that killed all seven onboard.

Book Review: Memoirist Lilly Dancyger’s penetrating essays explore the power of female friendships

In 2021 Lilly Dancyger’s first book, “Negative Space,” was praised for its unflinching portrait of her father’s heroin addiction.

Book Review: Coming-of-age meets quarter-life crisis in Fiona Warnick’s ambitious debut ‘The Skunks’

Isabel’s just trying to do better in a world buzzing with diametrically opposing views of what that means.

Book Review: Novelist Amy Tan shares love of the natural world in ‘The Backyard Bird Chronicles’

Best-selling novelist Amy Tan of “The Joy Luck Club” fame combines entries from her nature journal with astonishing illustrations thanks to lessons in bird illustration in “The Backyard Bird Chronicles,” to share a birdwatching obsession that dates back to before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Book Review: Rachel Khong’s new novel ‘Real Americans’ explores race, class and cultural identity

“Real Americans” is a sweeping, multigenerational novel about a Chinese American family. It is divided into three sections, each narrated by a different family member.

Book Review: ‘Crow Talk’ provides a path for healing in a meditative and hopeful novel on grief

Crows have long been associated with death, but Eileen Garvin’s novel “Crow Talk” offers a fresh perspective; creepy, dark and morbid becomes beautiful, wondrous and transformative.

Book Review: Emily Henry is still the modern-day rom-com queen with ‘Funny Story’

“Funny Story” isn’t a funny story at all, but it is a good one. It starts with dueling breakups that have rocked the two main characters’ worlds and forced them to bond over their shared broken hearts.

Book Review: ‘Nothing But the Bones’ is a compelling noir novel at a breakneck pace

“Nothing But the Bones,” a prequel to Brian Panowich’s critically acclaimed Bull Mountain series of Southern noir novels, finds Nails McKenna on the run after killing a man in a barroom brawl.

Book Review: Hampton Sides revisits Captain James Cook, a divisive figure in the South Pacific

In his fateful final Pacific voyage, Captain James Cook failed to find an ocean passage connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans but he did find Pacific islands, peoples and cultures unknown to Europeans.

Book Review: Jen Silverman’s gripping second novel explores the long afterlife of political violence

In 1968, an apolitical grad student at Harvard gets drawn into the takeover of a campus building because he is in love with one of the organizers.

Book Review: Short story anthology ‘The Black Girl Survives in This One’ challenges the horror canon

“The Black Girl Survives in This One,” a short story anthology edited by Saraciea J. Fennell and Desiree S. Evans, is changing the literary horror canon.

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