Our columnist on four notable novels.
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Our columnist on four notable novels.
By Alida Becker
Alida Becker was an editor at the Book Review for 30 years. She was the first winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for excellence in reviewing.
A hands-free “pulley system, or crumbs brought to me by little doves, or something,” would help. Her new novel is “Will There…
In “Baldwin: A Love Story,” Nicholas Boggs goes far beyond other scholars in tracing Baldwin’s relationships and their role in…
This flamboyant tale of fakers and forgery, straddling the turn of the 20th century, is a smart and witty investigation into love…
With humanities funding vanishing, stories and those who protect them remain our greatest hope.
Eight new novels explore themes from crime and family dysfunction to forbidden love and generational conflict, offering…
A Pulitzer finalist is among the first-time novelists, in tales of love, a surreal prison, teen murder and a tradwife
