NPR BooksBacardi Biography Details The 'Fight For Cuba'Tom Gjelten's new book, Bacardi and the Long Fight For Cuba, threads the history of the family-owned Bacardi Rum Co. together with that of the nation in which it was founded. Categories: Books Reviews
New Book Collects Copp Children StoriesScott Simon speaks with Weekend Edition's Daniel Pinkwater, about a new book called Jim Copp, Will You Tell Me A Story?" The book is a collection of three of Copp and Ed Brown's stories for children, put in book form for the first time. Categories: Books Reviews
Palin Autobiography ReissuedScott Simon takes a moment to note that a biography of Sarah Palin, Republican vice presidential candidate, has been quickly reissued. The book reveals Palin's favorite meal: moose stew. Categories: Books Reviews
Novel's Young Narrator Tells Family's StoryAuthor Matthew Kneale discusses his new book When We Were Romans, the story of a mother and her two young children who flee London to stay with friends in Rome. Kneale wrote the book from the point of view of a nine-year-old. » E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us Categories: Books Reviews
True GritCategories: Books Reviews
Bowling for JusticesIn Christopher Buckley’s new novel, the fun begins when a popular TV judge is appointed to the Supreme Court.
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The Lives of the IrishAnne Enright’s working-class characters grapple with love, marriage, parenthood, boredom, confusion and desire in this collection of stories, old and new.
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Bilateral CommitmentsThe characters in Sana Krasikov’s stories have their minds in two places: America and the former Soviet republics they left behind.
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’61 RevisitedSuze Rotolo remembers the Greenwich Village folk scene and her relationship with a certain rising star.
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African IdyllThe Times’s Helene Cooper fled a warring Liberia as a child. In this memoir, she returns to confront the ghosts of her past -- and to find a lost sister.
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Novel On Islam's Prophet Finds New PublisherIndependent publisher Beaufort Books agrees to publish The Jewel of Medina after Random House backs out. Random House had feared Sherry Jones' historical novel about the Prophet Mohammed and his wife, Aisha, could be offensive to Muslims. Categories: Books Reviews
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Shaw's Graphic Take On Ordinary Family DramaBottomless Belly Button, Dash Shaw's portrait of good people with a desperate, bourgeois dignity, is a welcome break from the comic genre's usual angst-ridden post-modernity. Categories: Books Reviews
Archive: Book Review PodcastThis week: Christopher Buckley, author of “Supreme Courtship”; Wesley Yang on “Guyland”; Motoko Rich on the children’s author Rick Riordan; and Dwight Garner with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
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Essay: Styron’s ChoiceWhen William Styron published “The Confessions of Nat Turner” 40 years ago, black writers objected to his use of dialect and his invocation of inflammatory stereotypes.
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