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2 days ago | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Colin Dwyer
"They f*** you up, your mum and dad," Philip Larkin once memorably wrote. "They may not mean to, but they do."Now surely the great British poet and novelist, who died three decades ago, did not set out to sum up the books coming out this week, but his famous line does a rather effective job of it anyway.
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1 week ago | 
mprnews.org | Colin Dwyer
Strap in, folks: This week the publishing calendar is putting some difficult questions on the table, which range from pressing political concerns to perspective-altering riddles about life itself. For instance, what did former President Joe Biden’s team know — and choose to do — about the octogenarian’s alleged mental and physical decline during his ill-fated reelection campaign?
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2 weeks ago | 
nhpr.org | Colin Dwyer
Strap in, folks: This week the publishing calendar is putting some difficult questions on the table, which range from pressing political concerns to perspective-altering riddles about life itself. For instance, what did former President Joe Biden's team know — and choose to do — about the octogenarian's alleged mental and physical decline during his ill-fated reelection campaign?
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1 month ago | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Colin Dwyer
A true titan of world letters returns to the page this week. Granted, it's not as if Isabel Allende ever really left. The prodigious Chilean expat, now in her 80s, continues to publish as quickly as ever. My Name Is Emilia Del Valle, due out this week, is Allende's seventh novel in the past decade.
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1 month ago | 
kpbs.org | Colin Dwyer
It must be something of a deflating time for Revolutionary War reenactors. The 250th anniversary of the war's opening shots at Lexington came and went earlier this month. And while the date was certainly commemorated with gusto, there won't be another major battle to reenact until June, at the earliest. Fortunately there's consolation on this week's publishing calendar: The second volume in Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Rick Atkinson's planned trilogy on the American Revolution.
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1 month ago | 
wuwf.org | Colin Dwyer
Woe betide the poor soul looking for a snappy unifying theme in this week's notable new reads. These books confront readers with the recent past and distant future, bring them to southeastern Africa and an alternative Japan, and bedeck their pages with subversive cartoons and lush, fantastical landscapes. There are no easy throughlines here, in other words. Then again, perhaps we shouldn't overthink this one.
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1 month ago | 
mprnews.org | Colin Dwyer
Woe betide the poor soul looking for a snappy unifying theme in this week’s notable new reads. These books confront readers with the recent past and distant future, bring them to southeastern Africa and an alternative Japan, and bedeck their pages with subversive cartoons and lush, fantastical landscapes. There are no easy throughlines here, in other words. Then again, perhaps we shouldn’t overthink this one.
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2 months ago | 
tpr.org | Colin Dwyer
Don't worry, you've come to a safe space. To be clear, the same can't be said for the rest of the internet, which every April Fools' Day lards its usual mystery blend of fact, rumor and misinformation with, well, still more misinformation — this time in the service of what some allege to be humor. But you've found sanctuary in the next few hundred words, promise.
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2 months ago | 
mprnews.org | Colin Dwyer
Don’t let the crowd of one-word titles fool you: Those looking for their next book will have quite the potpourri to pick from this week. The new releases range from a debut novel to a new installment in a venerable series, from a memoir of wrongful imprisonment to a celebrated novelist's tale of deep-sea intrigue — and then there's a biography of Yoko Ono, who defies any comparison, really. ‘Elphie,’ by Gregory MaguireSomething “Wicked” this way comes … again.
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2 months ago | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Colin Dwyer
Don't let the crowd of one-word titles fool you: Those looking for their next book will have quite the potpourri to pick from this week. The new releases range from a debut novel to a new installment in a venerable series, from a memoir of wrongful imprisonment to a celebrated novelist's tale of deep-sea intrigue — and then there's a biography of Yoko Ono, who defies any comparison, really.
