Book Review: ‘Return to Sender,’ by Vera Brosgol, and ‘Mirror Town,’ by Daniel Nayeri Image Date Friday, June 13, 2025 - 3:00 AM Description Two children’s novels take a gimlet-eyed look at the price of gifts with “no strings attached.”
Book Review: ‘Returning Light,’ by Robert L. Harris Image Date Saturday, July 15, 2023 - 3:00 AM Description In “Returning Light,” Robert L. Harris reflects on his many years as the caretaker of a lonely outpost off the west coast of Ireland.
Book Review: ‘Reunion,’ by Elise Juska Date Saturday, May 04, 2024 - 3:00 AM Description Elise Juska takes readers back to the summer of 2021. The question is, do we want to go there?
Book Review: ‘Revenge of the Tipping Point,’ by Malcolm Gladwell Image Date Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 3:01 AM Description In “Revenge of the Tipping Point,” the best-selling author looks back at his old theories.
Book Review: ‘Right-Wing Women,’ by Andrea Dworkin Date Wednesday, February 26, 2025 - 3:02 AM Description In a newly reissued 1983 book, the radical feminist Andrea Dworkin argued that conservative women understood the reality of male domination.
Book Review: ‘Ripe,’ by Sarah Rose Etter Image Date Monday, July 10, 2023 - 7:32 AM Description In Sarah Rose Etter’s novel “Ripe,” a 30-something writes marketing copy by day, but spends her nights diving deep into the void.
Book Review: ‘Rocket Dreams,’ by Christian Davenport Date Saturday, September 13, 2025 - 3:00 AM Description In “Rocket Dreams,” Christian Davenport revels in the struggle between the billionaire moguls Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos to leave the Earth behind.
Book Review: ‘Rogues and Scholars,’ by James Stourton Date Wednesday, February 05, 2025 - 3:00 AM Description “Rogues and Scholars,” James Stourton’s erudite and authoritative history, doesn’t spare the color.
Book Review: ‘Roman Stories,’ by Jhumpa Lahiri Date Friday, October 06, 2023 - 3:00 AM Description In “Roman Stories,” written in Italian, nine protagonists have little in common except their foreignness.
Book Review: ‘Roman Year,’ by André Aciman Date Monday, October 21, 2024 - 5:37 AM Description Recounting the time his family spent in a former Italian brothel, André Aciman’s new memoir, “Roman Year,” picks up where 1994’s “Out of Egypt” left off.