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- Publication Date | May 03, 2024Duration | 00:44:19Publication Date | May 03, 2024Duration | 00:44:19Colm Tóibín’s 2009 novel “Brooklyn” told the story of a meek young Irishwoman, Eilis Lacey, who emigrates to New York in the 1950s out of a sense of familial obligation and slowly, diligently begins building a ...
- Publication Date | Apr 26, 2024Duration | 00:46:41Publication Date | Apr 26, 2024Duration | 00:46:41How to explain the British writer Dolly Alderton to an American audience? It might be best to let her work speak for itself — it certainly does! — but Alderton is such a cultural phenomenon in her native Englan...
- Publication Date | Apr 12, 2024Duration | 00:31:22Publication Date | Apr 12, 2024Duration | 00:31:22Simon & Schuster is not growing old quietly.The venerable publishing house — one of the industry’s so-called Big 5 — is schuster-100-anniversary.html">celebrating its 100th birthday this month after a period of...
- Publication Date | Apr 05, 2024Duration | 01:05:01Publication Date | Apr 05, 2024Duration | 01:05:01This month marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Stephen King’s first novel, “Carrie.” In the decades since, King has experimented with length, genre and style, but has always maintained his position...
- Publication Date | Mar 29, 2024Duration | 00:30:33Publication Date | Mar 29, 2024Duration | 00:30:33Earlier this month, the Book Review’s staff critics — Dwight Garner, Alexandra Jacobs and Jennifer Szalai — released a novels-humor.html">list of 22 novels they have found reliably funny since Joseph Heller’s l...
- Publication Date | Mar 22, 2024Duration | 00:43:34Publication Date | Mar 22, 2024Duration | 00:43:34If you're familiar with Tana French, it's likely for her Dublin Murder Squad series of crime novels that kicked off in 2007 with "In the Woods." But her new book, "The Hunter," a sequel to 2020's "The Searcher,...
- Publication Date | Mar 15, 2024Duration | 00:39:04Publication Date | Mar 15, 2024Duration | 00:39:04Frank Herbert’s epic novel “Dune” and its successors have been entrenched in the science fiction and fantasy canon for almost six decades, a rite of passage for proudly nerdy readers across the generations. But...
- Publication Date | Mar 08, 2024Duration | 00:44:23Publication Date | Mar 08, 2024Duration | 00:44:23It’s not often that the Academy Awards give the publishing world any gristle to chew on. But at this year’s Oscars ceremony — taking place on Sunday evening — one of the Best Picture contenders is all about boo...
- Publication Date | Mar 01, 2024Duration | 00:37:46Publication Date | Mar 01, 2024Duration | 00:37:46Tommy Orange’s acclaimed debut novel, “orange-there-there.html">There There” — one of the Book Review’s books.html">10 Best Books of 2018 — centered on a group of characters who all converge on an Indigenous po...
- Publication Date | Feb 23, 2024Duration | 00:36:16Publication Date | Feb 23, 2024Duration | 00:36:16Tricia Romano’s new book, “The Freaks Came Out to Write,” is an oral history of New York’s late, great alternative weekly newspaper The Village Voice, where she worked for eight years as the nightlife columnist...
