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Playground
Powers’s extraordinary novels are a rebuttal to the notion that what stirs the mind can’t also stir the heart.
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Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s Messiah
King loves his music and knows his history. The result is a lively, informative book on the birth and nurture of a classic.
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Christmas Crimes at the Mysterious Bookshop
None of the 13 stories in this collection disappoints; several are superior.
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Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties, and Subtle Shades of Meaning
This charming little book is more like a tray of aperitifs than a full meal, but it will appeal to readers with an interest in words and a sense of humor.
Ira Gershwin: A Life in Words
Great reading for more than music lovers. This will be the definitive book on Ira for a long time.
The Wildes: A Novel in Five Acts
It’s hard to imagine anyone doing this sort of imaginative historical reconstruction better than Bayard, who did it superbly once before in Jackie & Me. A sometimes elegiac but mostly tragic recreation of one of the great what-ifs of literary history. Readers will find it difficult to put down.
‘Life After Kafka’ by Magdaléna Platzová | LJ Review of the Day
An affecting book and always slightly to the side, as indeed were all of Kafka’s writings.
The Devil Raises His Own
A knockout comedy of manners about sex, violence, and making blue movies in early 20th-century La La Land.
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