Four months into 2024, and I already have what will be my favorite novel the year, the novel I've already been an annoying evangelist for, and the non-fiction book I recommend with no hesitation ...
https://www.thenewdorkreviewofbooks.com/2024/05/2024-is-one-third-over-here-are-my.html
If you're a woman in the 1950s and you want to get divorced, you go to Nevada, and hang out for six weeks at a "divorce ranch" -- a niche industry taking advantage of Nevada's laissez faire laws...
https://www.thenewdorkreviewofbooks.com/2024/04/the-divorcees-by-rowan-beaird-how-to.html
You can't talk about about Kelly Link's debut novel The Book of Love without mentioning the following: • Kelly Link is a BELOVED short story writer. • Her debut NOVEL clocks...
https://www.thenewdorkreviewofbooks.com/2024/03/the-book-of-love-by-kelly-link-very.html
Does this ever happen to you? You're connecting to a piece of art on a very deep level, and suddenly, totally independent of the content of that art, you start getting choked up. Like you feel s...
https://www.thenewdorkreviewofbooks.com/2024/02/martyr-by-kaveh-akbar-immense-brilliant.html
It's only the first week in January and I'm already behind. I suspect I'm not the only one who feels this way. December is so busy for three weeks, then nothing -- except good cheer and reading a...
https://www.thenewdorkreviewofbooks.com/2024/01/best-books-i-read-in-december.html
Happy almost 2024, readers! I nearly set a new personal record for pages read in 2023 (book total will wind up somewhere in the mid-70s, which is the most in more than five years), which makes me...
https://www.thenewdorkreviewofbooks.com/2023/12/best-10-books-of-2023.html
You're probably already inundated with the best of the year book lists, but over here, we have just one more post to get through before we get to my favorite books of the year (next week). Here a...
https://www.thenewdorkreviewofbooks.com/2023/11/best-books-i-read-in-november.html
October was a pretty eclectic reading month, which as you may have noticed, is par for the course for me. Here are the best four books I read last month (and woohoo, we're almost caught up!): ...
https://www.thenewdorkreviewofbooks.com/2023/11/catching-up-part-3-best-4-books-i-read.html
Yes, I know it's not September. But here we are, still catching up on some great books I read during my late-summer hiatus. This week, we're knocking out September reads. Here are the three bes...
https://www.thenewdorkreviewofbooks.com/2023/11/catching-up-part-2-best-books-i-read-in.html
Not long ago, my spouse and I went out for drinks with an acquaintance -- an extremely gossipy fellow who is plugged in to the neighborhood tea. Our neighborhood, Roscoe Village, on the north si...
https://www.thenewdorkreviewofbooks.com/2023/10/hot-springs-drive-by-lindsay-hunter.html
"Perhaps memory is not merely preservation of a moment in the mind, but the process of repeatedly returning to it, carefully breaking it up in parts and assembling them again until we can make...
https://www.thenewdorkreviewofbooks.com/2023/10/the-other-americans-by-laila-lalami.html
Thank you to everyone who read, commented, messaged, texted, or sent good vibes in response to last week's post . You all are the best. I am encouraged and inspired anew! Here's the first in ...
https://www.thenewdorkreviewofbooks.com/2023/10/catching-up-best-books-i-read-in-august.html
Years ago, I got to attend an unofficial book blogging conference (we called it UnCon, because it was right before the Book Expo America Conference, but not actually part of it -- shout out, old ...
https://www.thenewdorkreviewofbooks.com/2023/10/im-back-are-you-still-reading.html
Sun House (out today!) is David James Duncan's first novel in 31 years, since 1992's The Brothers K , one of favorite novels of all time. So it's a good thing that the next novel by a guy who ...
https://www.thenewdorkreviewofbooks.com/2023/08/sun-house-by-david-james-duncan-finding.html
I feel like I'm constantly behind, but even more so this summer. As a reader who wants to stay as current as I can with new releases, the sheer volume of incredible books coming out this fall is ...
https://www.thenewdorkreviewofbooks.com/2023/08/best-3-books-of-july.html
Yep, I'm a couple weeks late on getting this done at the year's halfway point -- the main reason for that is because I wanted to finish reading one of the books that I was pretty sure would wind ...
https://www.thenewdorkreviewofbooks.com/2023/07/best-books-of-2023-so-far.html
As is my usual MO, I was all over the place in June reading. From a 600-page boarding school novel (Foster Dade Explores The Cosmos ) to a novel set in 1990 Dubai (Hope You Are Satisfied ) to Lor...
https://www.thenewdorkreviewofbooks.com/2023/06/best-3-books-of-june.html
We made it through May, and now it's summer! Everyone has different definitions of what a "summer read" is, but to me, a summer read is big and meaty, something I'm not going to finish in just a ...
https://www.thenewdorkreviewofbooks.com/2023/06/best-3-books-of-may-plus-2-more.html
One of my favorite moves is if I'm crossing the street, and a rich person in a six-figure luxury SUV pulls up to the stop sign, I'll slow and meander and sometimes pretend like I dropped somethi...
https://www.thenewdorkreviewofbooks.com/2023/05/pineapple-street-by-jenny-jackson-rich.html
A chilly, rainy month is ideal reading weather, and that's definitely what we had for the most part here in Chicago. Cold, rainy weather is also ideal running weather (well, maybe not the rainy p...
https://www.thenewdorkreviewofbooks.com/2023/05/best-3-books-of-april.html
Hanna Halperin's new novel I Could Live Here Forever is exactly as devastating as you'd expect any good novel about addiction to be. What makes this novel truly great, though, is how Halperin a...
https://www.thenewdorkreviewofbooks.com/2023/04/i-could-live-here-forever-by-hanna.html
You know the meme: Being an adult is saying "next week things will slow down a little" over and over again until you die. That was March. That's to say, March was a blur. I traveled to Seattle fo...
https://www.thenewdorkreviewofbooks.com/2023/03/best-3-books-of-march.html
It's been a slow reading month in terms of quantity, but not quality. I spent most of my month traversing the 900 pages of what will no-doubt be one of my favorite novels of the year, The Deluge,...
https://www.thenewdorkreviewofbooks.com/2023/02/best-3-books-of-february.html
If you'd been feeling a little too optimistic about the state of things these days, let Stephen Markley's climate fiction (Cli-Fi, in the parlance of our times) The Deluge quickly (well, maybe ...
https://www.thenewdorkreviewofbooks.com/2023/02/the-deluge-by-stephen-markley-truly.html
Few novels meet the current moment with the confidence and astuteness of Rebecca Makkai's new novel I Have Some Questions For You . This thrilling literary mystery centers on our disturbing obse...
https://www.thenewdorkreviewofbooks.com/2023/02/i-have-some-questions-for-you-by.html