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4 days ago · March 29, 2024. Earlier this month, the Book Review’s staff critics — Dwight Garner, Alexandra Jacobs and Jennifer Szalai — released a list of 22 novels they have found reliably funny since Joseph Heller’s landmark comic novel “Catch-22” came out in 1961. On this week’s episode, they tell Gilbert Cruz why “Catch-2….
Feb 17, 2011 · A WIDOW’S STORY. A Memoir. By Joyce Carol Oates. 415 pp. Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers. $27.99. Ann Hulbert, Slate’s literary editor, is the author, most recently, of “Raising America ...
Apr 12, 2024 · This month marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Stephen King’s first novel, “Carrie.” On this week’s episode, host Gilbert Cruz talks to the novelist Grady Hendrix, who read and re-read many of King’s books over several years for a writing project, as well as King superfan Damon Lindelof, the TV showrunner behind shows such as “Lost” and “The Leftovers.”
Nov 18, 2016 · In The New York Times Book Review, A. O. Scott reviews Michael Chabon’s new novel, “Moonglow.”. Scott writes: Michael Chabon’s new book is described on the title page as “a novel,” in ...
Feb 15, 2024 · BURMA SAHIBPaul Theroux. This novel explores George Orwell’s years in colonial Burma, where he trained and worked as a police officer in the 1920s. Theroux’s Orwell is uneasy about his job and ...
Feb 12, 2016 · In The New York Times Book Review, Andrew Solomon reviews five new books about death and dying. Solomon writes: “The Iceberg” is Marion Coutts’s stunningly fierce, wise, impossibly gorgeous ...
James McBride’s novel “The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store” was one of the most celebrated books of 2023 — a critical darling and a New York Times best seller. In their piece for the Book Review, Danez Smith called it “a murder mystery locked inside a Great American Novel” and praised its “precision, magnitude and necessary messiness.”
