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Book Review: Call the script doctor! ‘Feh’ explores the toxic storyline of a religious education

By ANN LEVIN
Jul 22, 2024 12:02 pm - Shalom Auslander’s “Feh” is a poignant, profane and scabrously funny exploration of the way that organized religion, but also scientists and philosophers, conspire to teach us that we are “feh,” a Yiddish expression of contempt.
Book Review: The Knights of Camelot search for a new king in Lev Grossman’s ‘The Bright Sword’

By SHARON LURYE
Jul 16, 2024 7:16 am - A rudderless nation, lost in uncertainty, searches for its next commander in chief. Such is the uneasy world of Arthurian England in “The Bright Sword,” the new novel by Lev Grossman.
Book Review: East Texas P.I. turns vigilante in funny and savage ‘Sugar on the Bones’

By BRUCE DESILVA
Jul 15, 2024 10:21 am - In Joe R. Lansdale’s “Sugar on the Bones,” the quirky characters are well drawn, the prose is tight, the pace is furious, the surprises keep coming and the violent climax is nothing less than savage.
Viola Davis, James Patterson to collaborate on novel set in the contemporary, rural South

By HILLEL ITALIE
Jul 09, 2024 3:49 pm - An upcoming thriller about a female judge in the contemporary, rural South will have two very famous, and very different, authors: Oscar winner Viola Davis and mega-selling novelist James Patterson.
Book Review: Kate Quinn returns with ‘The Briar Club,’ a murder mystery during the 1950s Red Scare

By ROB MERRILL
Jul 09, 2024 8:17 am - If you’ve never read a Kate Quinn novel, there’s no time like the present. Or like the 1950s in Washington, D.C. That’s the setting for Quinn’s “The Briar Club,” which is a murder mystery wrapped up in the stories of multiple women who rent rooms at a boarding house during the height of Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s Red Scare.
Book Review: ‘Loving Sylvia Plath’ attends to polarizing writer’s circumstances more than her work

By KRYSTA FAURIA
Jul 09, 2024 7:52 am - In “Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation,” author Emily Van Duyne rejects the trope that Plath was nothing more than a bad mother who struggled with mental illness and a morbid poet, whose life was merely a preface to her infamous self-inflicted death.
Book Review: ‘John Quincy Adams’ gives the sixth president’s life the sweep and scope it deserves

By ANDREW DeMILLO
Jul 01, 2024 11:43 am - To be clear, Randall Woods’ “John Quincy Adams: A Man for the Whole People” is not a leisurely read. Clocking in at more than 700 pages, Woods’ biography of the sixth president is massive in both length and scope. But that’s the type of book Adams deserves.
Book Review: ‘Hey, Zoey’ uses questions about AI to look at women’s autonomy in a new light

By DONNA EDWARDS
Jul 01, 2024 11:36 am - Dolores is going through the motions of life when she finds a potentially marriage-ending surprise in her garage: a high-end, lifelike sex doll imbued with artificial intelligence named Zoey. There are a lot of places that author Sarah Crossan can go from here — and “Hey, Zoey” touches on them all.
Book Review: Yume Kitasei explores space in a heist-driven action adventure novel

By DONNA EDWARDS
Jun 24, 2024 10:52 am - Grad student Maya Hoshimoto is having a hard time settling down on Earth after a thrilling career as an art thief, stealing looted objects and returning them to their peo...
Book Review: Serena Kaylor’s ‘Calculation’ proves predictable romance can be uproarious, nail-biting

By DONNA EDWARDS
Jun 21, 2024 6:35 am - Serena Kaylor’s second novel, “The Calculation of You and Me,” is a phenomenal teen romance that celebrates romance itself — the concept and the genre — as Marlowe discovers what makes a healthy, happy relationship through her journey to try and win back her high school boyfriend.

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