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Book Review: David Berry’s ‘On Nostalgia’ Examines the Urge to Look Back
If nostalgia goes away, will we miss it? That’s a chance we may have to take, as a clear-eyed view of the future becomes more urgent than ever.
Book Review: Emma Jane Unsworth’s “Grown Ups,” a Midlife Crisis Novel for the Instagram Era
“Grown Ups” is a genuinely adult look at a decade of life that’s gaining increasing attention as marriage and kids get pushed back — or pushed out.
Audiobook Review: Doctor Dolittle Comes Unflappably to Life
We don’t need Hugh Lofting’s Doctor Dolittle anymore, but his fans will always find ways to keep him around. A new audiobook series does just that.
Book Review: Anna Wiener’s “Uncanny Valley” Side-Eyes Silicon
Anna Wiener’s memoir from the tech trenches is coolly distanced, but also contains chilling insights into the decade our utopian dreams died.
Book Review: “Tim Burton” is an Approachable Guide to an Eccentric Filmmaker
Ian Nathan’s 192-page book illuminates the themes, actors, and visual motifs Tim Burton has returned to again and again over the course of 20 films.
Christmas Audiobook Review: V.C. Andrews’s “Flowers in the Attic”
“Flowers in the Attic” is totally a Christmas book, right? Good-golly day, yes! Mena Suvari narrates a new audiobook production.
Audiobook Review: “Star Wars: Force Collector” Sweeps the Skywalker Saga
Kevin Shinick’s young adult novel “Force Collector” is less about Easter eggs than about the Christmas present we’re all set to unwrap.
Book Review: Andy Thomas’s Christmas History “From Solstice to Santa”
In the end of his short history, Andy Thomas has a reassuring message: however you do Christmas, don’t worry that you’re doing it wrong.
Christmas Audiobook Review: Connie Willis’s “Doomsday Book”
As a time traveler rolls the yule log and puts up with wine-drunk revelry, synthesized bells sound increasingly ominous carols over Oxford’s High Street.
Book Review: Cathy Guisewite, Post-“Cathy,” Lists “Fifty Things That Aren’t My Fault”
Cathy Guisewite’s new book is a moving reflection on art and life, on personal and social progress, on generation and regeneration.
Audiobook Review: “Resistance Reborn” Gets (What’s Left of) the Star Wars Gang Back Together
Author Rebecca Roanhorse had her work cut out for her. To paraphrase Obi-Wan Dylan, they not busy being born are busy dying.
Book Review: “When Reagan Sent In the Marines” Chronicles the Debacle the Gipper Wanted to Forget
Patrick J. Sloyan’s new book “When Reagan Sent in the Marines” chronicles the widely forgotten history of how U.S. forces were so disastrously deployed.