The universe of The Fragile Threads of Power is the same as that of the Darker qShade of Magic series, and fans will be able to get back there as…
Dragons Love Tacos Summary Among all the picture books ever created, this is among my favorites! FOR WHAT ENDANG? It features tacos and cute, humorous dragons—not the menacing type. Nobody…
Perusing devotees realize there's not at all like at long last getting your hands on (or getting a Libby warning for) a book you've been holding up months (or years)…
There’s a grim familiarity to stories about young girls falling prey to men in positions of power. As readers, we recognize the girl’s first heady thrill at being called special…
“You don’t have to go and ruin my life.” That’s the self-pitying cry the two female teenagers who’ve been raped and sexually harassed hear from their abusers in the best-selling author…
Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play Music | How to Listen The actor and writer Stephen Fry visits the podcast this week to discuss several subjects, including Oscar Wilde, Fry’s own love…
Recent poetry books of interest: ISLAND OF THE INNOCENT: A Consideration of the Book of Job, by Diane Glancy. (Turtle Point, paper, $17.95.) Glancy uses poetry and prose to filter the…
A book about a fictitious writer includes, in its pages, a glowing New York Times review of said author by an equally fake reviewer, one “Trilly Stein.” Must a real-life…
SUPPRESSION STARTS WITH WHO BELONGS HERE Our nation’s core narrative can be summed up in the disconnect between the Constitution’s pledge of equality and the rampant disregard for that ambition that…
CONCORDANCE By Susan Howe “One must cross the threshold heart of words,” Susan Howe writes early in her new book, “Concordance,” an appealingly jagged sequence of collage poems. The “threshold heart,”…
Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play Music | How to Listen A.O. Scott, The Times’s co-chief film critic, is (temporarily) wearing a different hat, writing a series of pieces for the Book…
Lauren Wolk’s poetic new novel, ECHO MOUNTAIN (Dutton, 368 pp., $17.99; ages 10 and up), starts with a litter of puppies. One of them appears to be dead, and 12-year-old…
