‘Midwinter’ leads audiobook roundup
"Midwinter" by Fiona Melrose, narrated by Peter Noble, 7:34, Wholestory A father and son unable to reckon with grief are in the hands of a narrator capable of sustaining the...
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Bellevue-bound: David Oshinsky’s history of America’s most storied hospital
A fault line lies across the history of Bellevue Hospital so that the rumble of major social trends, political history and, less surprisingly, changes in scientific understanding create seismic waves...
Audiobooks: ‘Learning to Swear in America’ is a YA laugh fest
Perhaps the funniest novel I've listened to this year is categorized under young adult fiction, Katie Kennedy's "Learning to Swear in America." There are lots of fun discoveries to be...
Roundup of new audiobooks includes death, kidnappings
"Death and the Seaside" by Alison Moore, 5 hours, 14 minutes, Audible Studios Whenever narrator Imogen Church tells us what's written on a sign, she uses special intonation. A sign...
Book Review: ‘Patient H.M.’ by Luke Dittrich
The 1948 annual report of the Connecticut State Hospital sounds what's intended as an optimistic note. A growing number of its patients are undergoing lobotomies — 550 in the previous...
From Maggie Gyllenhaal to Scott Brick: Find out which audiobook narrators stand out
Valiant Ambition by Nathaniel Philbrick, narrated by Scott Brick, 13:19, Penguin Audio Scott Brick must be doing something right. He's voiced more than 600 audiobooks — titles as disparate as...
Chicken guns and Kevlar underwear: Mary Roach finds funny side of military research
Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti, Africa, is as spartan as a U.S. military encampment gets, Mary Roach writes in her new book, "Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War." Other...
‘The Gene: An Intimate History’ by Siddhartha Mukherjee decodes DNA, genetics
The structure of DNA was uncovered in 1953, yet in 1975, when I was in college, basic biology classes barely hinted at the revolution underway. In psychology class, the lecturer...
Audiobook roundup: ‘Drowned Detective’ by Neil Jordan, more
The Drowned Detective by Neil Jordan, narrated by Mark Meadows, Audible Studios Bloomsbury, 7:07, download only $19.95 Jonathan, a British ex-patriot working as a detective in an unnamed Eastern European...
Audiobook roundup: Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘In Other Words,’ more
In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri, translated by Ann Goldstein, narrated by Jhumpa Lahiri, 6:53, Random House Audio The best narration is a kind of performance, an interpretation. It adds...