NYT > Books' Journal -- Day [entries|friends|calendar]
NYT > Books

[ website | NYT > Books ]
[ userinfo | scribbld userinfo ]
[ calendar | scribbld calendar ]

Open Book: Inside the Walls [04 Sep 2015|02:35pm]

http://rss.nytimes.com/c/34625/f/640314/s/49959f30/sc/38/l/0L0Snytimes0N0C20A150C0A90C0A60Cbooks0Creview0Cinside0Ethe0Ewalls0Bhtml0Dpartner0Frss0Gemc0Frss/story01.htm

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/books/review/inside-the-walls.html

Danny Lyon’s “Conversations With the Dead” is a book of photographs taken inside six Texas prisons in the late 1960s.
post comment

Ann Beattie’s ‘The State We’re In’ [04 Sep 2015|02:35pm]

http://rss.nytimes.com/c/34625/f/640314/s/49959f28/sc/27/l/0L0Snytimes0N0C20A150C0A90C0A60Cbooks0Creview0Cann0Ebeatties0Ethe0Estate0Ewere0Ein0Bhtml0Dpartner0Frss0Gemc0Frss/story01.htm

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/books/review/ann-beatties-the-state-were-in.html

The characters in Ann Beattie’s new stories, set largely in Maine, feel that their lives are wasted.
post comment

The Shortlist: Prose on Poetry [04 Sep 2015|02:35pm]

http://rss.nytimes.com/c/34625/f/640314/s/49959f2f/sc/32/l/0L0Snytimes0N0C20A150C0A90C0A60Cbooks0Creview0Cprose0Eon0Epoetry0Bhtml0Dpartner0Frss0Gemc0Frss/story01.htm

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/books/review/prose-on-poetry.html

New books include Helen Vendler’s “The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar.”
post comment

‘The Wake,’ by Paul Kingsnorth [04 Sep 2015|02:36pm]

http://rss.nytimes.com/c/34625/f/640314/s/49959f2a/sc/38/l/0L0Snytimes0N0C20A150C0A90C0A60Cbooks0Creview0Cthe0Ewake0Eby0Epaul0Ekingsnorth0Bhtml0Dpartner0Frss0Gemc0Frss/story01.htm

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/books/review/the-wake-by-paul-kingsnorth.html

A novel about an Englishman undone by the Norman invasion is rendered in a devised Anglo-Saxon “shadow tongue.”
post comment

‘The Making of Asian America,’ by Erika Lee [04 Sep 2015|02:36pm]

http://rss.nytimes.com/c/34625/f/640314/s/49959f2b/sc/32/l/0L0Snytimes0N0C20A150C0A90C0A60Cbooks0Creview0Cthe0Emaking0Eof0Easian0Eamerica0Eby0Eerika0Elee0Bhtml0Dpartner0Frss0Gemc0Frss/story01.htm

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/books/review/the-making-of-asian-america-by-erika-lee.html

A historian broadens the focus on the experience of the very diverse Asian-American community.
post comment

‘You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine,’ by Alexandra Kleeman [04 Sep 2015|02:36pm]

http://rss.nytimes.com/c/34625/f/640314/s/49959f2c/sc/21/l/0L0Snytimes0N0C20A150C0A90C0A60Cbooks0Creview0Cyou0Etoo0Ecan0Ehave0Ea0Ebody0Elike0Emine0Eby0Ealexandra0Ekleeman0Bhtml0Dpartner0Frss0Gemc0Frss/story01.htm

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/books/review/you-too-can-have-a-body-like-mine-by-alexandra-kleeman.html

Characters in this debut novel relate to media more than people.
post comment

‘Trigger Mortis: A James Bond Novel,’ by Anthony Horowitz [04 Sep 2015|02:36pm]

http://rss.nytimes.com/c/34625/f/640314/s/49959f2d/sc/23/l/0L0Snytimes0N0C20A150C0A90C0A60Cbooks0Creview0Ctrigger0Emortis0Ea0Ejames0Ebond0Enovel0Eby0Eanthony0Ehorowitz0Bhtml0Dpartner0Frss0Gemc0Frss/story01.htm

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/books/review/trigger-mortis-a-james-bond-novel-by-anthony-horowitz.html

The ultimate spy returns to the 1950s, but he’s much more P.C.
post comment

Inside the List [04 Sep 2015|02:36pm]

http://rss.nytimes.com/c/34625/f/640314/s/49959f32/sc/15/l/0L0Snytimes0N0C20A150C0A90C130Cbooks0Creview0Cinside0Ethe0Elist0Bhtml0Dpartner0Frss0Gemc0Frss/story01.htm

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/books/review/inside-the-list.html

Louise Penny, whose novel “The Nature of the Beast” is No. 3 on the hardcover fiction list, once said: “I know that if I’m not in the top five on the Times best-seller list, I’m going to feel like a failure.”
post comment

‘A Clue to the Exit,’ by Edward St. Aubyn [04 Sep 2015|02:36pm]

http://rss.nytimes.com/c/34625/f/640314/s/49959f29/sc/28/l/0L0Snytimes0N0C20A150C0A90C0A60Cbooks0Creview0Ca0Eclue0Eto0Ethe0Eexit0Eby0Eedward0Est0Eaubyn0Bhtml0Dpartner0Frss0Gemc0Frss/story01.htm

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/books/review/a-clue-to-the-exit-by-edward-st-aubyn.html

Three passengers discuss life’s meaning in a novel within Edward St. Aubyn’s novel about a dying screenwriter.
post comment

Editors’ Choice [04 Sep 2015|03:04pm]

http://rss.nytimes.com/c/34625/f/640314/s/49959f33/sc/23/l/0L0Snytimes0N0C20A150C0A90C0A60Cbooks0Creview0Ceditors0Echoice0Bhtml0Dpartner0Frss0Gemc0Frss/story01.htm

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/books/review/editors-choice.html

Recently reviewed books of particular interest.
post comment

Salman Rushdie on His New Novel, With a Character Who Floats Just Above Ground [04 Sep 2015|04:21pm]

http://rss.nytimes.com/c/34625/f/640314/s/49944200/sc/38/l/0L0Snytimes0N0C20A150C0A90C0A50Cbooks0Csalman0Erushdie0Eon0Ehis0Enew0Enovel0Ewith0Ea0Echaracter0Ewho0Efloats0Ejust0Eabove0Eground0Bhtml0Dpartner0Frss0Gemc0Frss/story01.htm

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/05/books/salman-rushdie-on-his-new-novel-with-a-character-who-floats-just-above-ground.html

Salman Rushdie discusses his latest book, “Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights,” and being an anti-Scheherazade.
post comment

Paperback Row [04 Sep 2015|04:36pm]

http://rss.nytimes.com/c/34625/f/640314/s/49959f34/sc/38/l/0L0Snytimes0N0C20A150C0A90C0A60Cbooks0Creview0Cpaperback0Erow0Bhtml0Dpartner0Frss0Gemc0Frss/story01.htm

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/books/review/paperback-row.html

Paperback books of particular interest.
post comment

ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Bill Clegg’s Debut Novel [04 Sep 2015|05:27pm]

http://rss.nytimes.com/c/34625/f/640314/s/4994a07b/sc/38/l/0Lartsbeat0Bblogs0Bnytimes0N0C20A150C0A90C0A40Cbook0Ereview0Epodcast0Ebill0Ecleggs0Edebut0Enovel0C0Dpartner0Frss0Gemc0Frss/story01.htm

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/04/book-review-podcast-bill-cleggs-debut-novel/

Mr. Clegg talks about “Did You Ever Have a Family,” and Kathryn J. Edin discusses “$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America.”
post comment

ArtsBeat: National Humanities Medal Winners Include Larry McMurtry and Alice Waters [04 Sep 2015|06:33pm]

http://rss.nytimes.com/c/34625/f/640314/s/4994aa01/sc/7/l/0Lartsbeat0Bblogs0Bnytimes0N0C20A150C0A90C0A40Cnational0Ehumanities0Emedal0Ewinners0Einclude0Elarry0Emcmurtry0Eand0Ealice0Ewaters0C0Dpartner0Frss0Gemc0Frss/story01.htm

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/04/national-humanities-medal-winners-include-larry-mcmurtry-and-alice-waters/

The National Humanities Medal will be bestowed by President Obama at a White House ceremony on Thursday.
post comment

Bookshelf: New Books on the City After War and After Buffalo [04 Sep 2015|06:37pm]

http://rss.nytimes.com/c/34625/f/640314/s/49951c7f/sc/7/l/0L0Snytimes0N0C20A150C0A90C0A60Cnyregion0Cnew0Ebooks0Eon0Ethe0Ecity0Eafter0Ewar0Eand0Eafter0Ebuffalo0Bhtml0Dpartner0Frss0Gemc0Frss/story01.htm

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/nyregion/new-books-on-the-city-after-war-and-after-buffalo.html

Ross J. Wilson argues that World War I transformed New York from an immigrant hub to an American metropolis, and Laura Pedersen, a transplant from upstate, assesses Manhattan in fond essays.
post comment

navigation
[ viewing | September 4th, 2015 ]
[ go | previous day|next day ]