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1 month ago | 
crimereads.com | Laura Leffler |Steve Martin |Xochitl Gonzales |Elizabeth Hand
When I started writing my debut thriller, Tell Them You Lied, I didn’t set out to write an art historical crime novel. It begins in Brooklyn on the morning of 9/11, which in my mind is not history but memory. I was a recent college graduate and newbie New Yorker on that day, zombie-walking the stunned streets, inhaling the fumes, and taking photographs. But memory is reliably unreliable, and to write the story I wanted to write, I had to do research too.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Robert Verkaik |Amy Tan |Steve Martin |Harry Bliss
A disturbing reevaluation of an iconic World War II battle, not definitely proven but well argued. Unnerving findings about one of the great failed Allied operations of WWII. On Sept. 17, 1944, Operation Market Garden landed a massive Allied force by parachute and glider behind German lines in Holland, and a British division launched an offensive from Belgium to link up. Success would entail outflanking German defenses, crossing the Rhine, and ending the war in 1944.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Michael Casserly |Steve Martin |Harry Bliss |Amy Tan
Of most interest to fellow education activists, but with plenty of useful rebuttals to the anti–public school crowd. Education activist Casserly makes a case for the utility of urban public schools.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Paisley Rekdal |Steve Martin |Harry Bliss |Amy Tan
Wise words about how we can become better readers. A professor’s guide to understanding the craft of poetry.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Robin Keuneke |Steve Martin |Harry Bliss |Amy Tan
A thoroughly sumptuous guide to some of the world’s most nutritious cuisines. Keuneke celebrates good food and good health in this cookbook and love letter to the flavors of the Iberian Peninsula. Ever since Ancel Keys published the findings of his Seven Countries Study in 1978, nutritionists have promoted the benefits of the Mediterranean diet.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Jacqueline Feldman |Amy Tan |Steve Martin |Harry Bliss
An atmospheric work of personal reportage that artfully renders the history and lived experience of Parisian squats. A journalist’s experience of living among squatters in Paris. Le Bloc, an acronym of “bâtiment libre, occupé citoyennement” (free building, occupied by citizens), was a Parisian squat occupied primarily by artists and immigrants until they were evicted by police in December 2013.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Edwidge Danticat |Steve Martin |Harry Bliss |Amy Tan
The acclaimed author discusses influential authors, her native Haiti, and the challenges of life in America. Danticat begins this short but powerful collection of essays by quoting Haitian-born poet Roland Chassagne. The cited work includes the phrase the author chose for her title. “We’re alone is the persistent chorus of the deserted, as in no one is coming to save us,” she writes.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Steve Martin |Harry Bliss |Jennette McCurdy
A smart, compassionate resource for anyone who’s ever wondered about polyamory. Rickert and Zanin present a comprehensive guide to living and loving within a polyamorous relationship. This thorough handbook covers all aspects of living polyamorously—from one’s initial decision to embrace the lifestyle and common communication mistakes to strategies to help tackle jealousy and set healthy boundaries.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Lina Zeldovich |Steve Martin |Harry Bliss |Amy Tan
A capably told microbiological detective story, with the promise of magic bullets to come. A bracing look through the murky depths at “phages,” viruses used to battle bacteria in treating illness.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Daniel Paris |Christina Macsweeney |Amy Tan |Steve Martin
Often heady, occasionally pretentious, and steeped in literary touchstones. A collection of autobiographical essays distorted through the lenses of memory and literature. Saldaña París writes of his time in Mexico City, Montreal, Madrid, and beyond as “an autobiographical melting” (borrowing a term from Robert Creeley), and he frequently uses the literary canon to shape his recollections.
