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Links to published book reviews or published articles focusing on books & bibliography for the fourth quarter of 2022, Oct.-Nov.-Dec. Continues thread: Exploring Books Through Articles, Reviews, Announcements, & Lists 2022-3 . (July-Aug.-Sept.)
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Anthony Lane. New Yorker, 10/03/2022 (posted online 09/26/2022): The Shock and Aftershocks of “The Waste Land".
Nikhil Krishnan. New Yorker, 10/03/2022 (posted online 09/26/2022): The Troublesome Legacy of the Early Romantics. Review of Andrea Wulf, Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self.
Nikhil Krishnan. New Yorker, 10/03/2022 (posted online 09/26/2022): The Troublesome Legacy of the Early Romantics. Review of Andrea Wulf, Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self.
3featherbear
A new biography of John Donne:
Adam Kirsch. New Yorker, 10/03/2022: John Donne’s Proto-Modernism. On Super Infinite: The Unique John Donne / Katherine Rundell.
Adam Kirsch. New Yorker, 10/03/2022: John Donne’s Proto-Modernism. On Super Infinite: The Unique John Donne / Katherine Rundell.
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Elizabeth A. Harris. NYT, 10/04/2022: Here Are This Year’s National Book Award Finalists.
Fiction
Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
Gayl Jones, The Birdcatcher
Jamil Jan Kochai, The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
Alejandro Varela, The Town of Babylon
Nonfiction
Meghan O’Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
David Quammen, Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
Ingrid Rojas Contreras, The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir
Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa, His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
Poetry
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Look at This Blue
John Keene, Punks: New & Selected Poems
Sharon Olds, Balladz
Roger Reeves, Best Barbarian
Jenny Xie, The Rupture Tense
Translated Literature
Jon Fosse, A New Name: Septology VI-VII
Translated from the Norwegian by Damion Searls
Scholastique Mukasonga, Kibogo
Translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti
Mónica Ojeda, Jawbone
Translated from the Spanish by Sarah Booker
Samanta Schweblin, Seven Empty Houses
Translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell
Yoko Tawada, Scattered All Over the Earth
Translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani
Young People’s Literature
Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans
Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School
Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes, and Dawud Anyabwile, Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice
Sabaa Tahir, All My Rage
Lisa Yee, Maizy Chen’s Last Chance
Fiction
Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
Gayl Jones, The Birdcatcher
Jamil Jan Kochai, The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
Alejandro Varela, The Town of Babylon
Nonfiction
Meghan O’Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
David Quammen, Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
Ingrid Rojas Contreras, The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir
Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa, His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
Poetry
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Look at This Blue
John Keene, Punks: New & Selected Poems
Sharon Olds, Balladz
Roger Reeves, Best Barbarian
Jenny Xie, The Rupture Tense
Translated Literature
Jon Fosse, A New Name: Septology VI-VII
Translated from the Norwegian by Damion Searls
Scholastique Mukasonga, Kibogo
Translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti
Mónica Ojeda, Jawbone
Translated from the Spanish by Sarah Booker
Samanta Schweblin, Seven Empty Houses
Translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell
Yoko Tawada, Scattered All Over the Earth
Translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani
Young People’s Literature
Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans
Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School
Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes, and Dawud Anyabwile, Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice
Sabaa Tahir, All My Rage
Lisa Yee, Maizy Chen’s Last Chance
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Los Angeles Review of Books
10/05/2022
Rosalie Metro. Comparative Authoritarianism. Review of: The Sovereign Trickster: Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte / Vicente L. Rafael -- Burmese Haze: US Policy and Myanmar’s Opening ― and Closing / Erin Murphy.
10/04/2022
W. Patrick McCray. The Bargaining Chips Are … Chips. Review of: Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology / Chris Miller.
10/03/2022
Anne Wingenter. Mussolini’s Kitchen. Review of: Feeding Fascism: The Politics of Women’s Food Work / Diane Garvin.
10/02/2022
Helena De Bres. The Philosophy of Shittiness. Review of: Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way / Kieran Setiya.
Richard Joseph. Fooled You: On Donna Tartt’s Genre Fiction.
10/01/2022
Eric Newman. Dreaming New Worlds: A Conversation with Ekow Eshun. Talking about: In the Black Fantastic / Ekow Eshun.
10/05/2022
Rosalie Metro. Comparative Authoritarianism. Review of: The Sovereign Trickster: Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte / Vicente L. Rafael -- Burmese Haze: US Policy and Myanmar’s Opening ― and Closing / Erin Murphy.
10/04/2022
W. Patrick McCray. The Bargaining Chips Are … Chips. Review of: Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology / Chris Miller.
10/03/2022
Anne Wingenter. Mussolini’s Kitchen. Review of: Feeding Fascism: The Politics of Women’s Food Work / Diane Garvin.
10/02/2022
Helena De Bres. The Philosophy of Shittiness. Review of: Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way / Kieran Setiya.
Richard Joseph. Fooled You: On Donna Tartt’s Genre Fiction.
10/01/2022
Eric Newman. Dreaming New Worlds: A Conversation with Ekow Eshun. Talking about: In the Black Fantastic / Ekow Eshun.
6featherbear
New York Review of Books -- Oct. 6 2022
Literature
David Shulman. Cosmic Oceans Squeezed into Atoms. Review of: The Kural: Tiruvalluvar’s Tirukkural / translated from the Tamil by Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma. (Beacon Press)
Ange Minko. Timeless Correspondences. Review of: HERmione / H.D., with an afterword by Francesca Wade -- Winged Words: The Life and Work of the Poet H.D. / Donna Krolik Hollenberg.
Hermione Lee. Poet of the Dispossessed. Review of: Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth / Keiron Pim.
Michael Gorra. Corrections of Taste. Review of: Critical Revolutionaries: Five Critics Who Changed the Way We Read / Terry Eagleton. (F.R. Leavis, William Empson, I.A. Richards, T.S. Eliot, and Raymond Williams)
James Walton. Doomed to Lucidity. Review of the novel The Slowworm’s Song / Andrew Miller.
Verlyn Klinkenborg. Endless Summer. Review of: Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road, a PBS American Masters documentary film directed by Brent Wilson.
History of Science
Jerome Groopman. Understanding Diabetes—and Paying for It. Review of: Insulin—the Crooked Timber: A History from Thick Brown Muck to Wall Street Gold / Kersten T. Hall -- Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease / Arleen Marcia Tuchman.
Erin Maglaque. Rome Was His Laboratory. Review of: The Incomparable Monsignor: Francesco Bianchini’s World of Science, History, and Court Intrigue / J.L. Heilbron.
Bill McKibben. Where Will We Live?. Review of: Nowhere Left to Go: How Climate Change Is Driving Species to the Ends of the Earth / Benjamin von Brackel, translated from the German by Ayça Türkoğlu -- Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World / Gaia Vince -- Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism / Harsha Walia.
History & Society
David S. Reynolds. Throngs of Unseen People. Review of: In the Houses of Their Dead: The Lincolns, the Booths, and the Spirits / Terry Alford. "Terry Alford’s history of spiritualism during the Civil War era, suggests an unexpected link between the Lincoln family and that of John Wilkes Booth."
Leslie T. Chang. Little Town on the Prairie. Review of: China in One Village: The Story of One Town and the Changing World / Liang Hong, translated from the Chinese by Emily Goedde.
Linda Greenhouse. A Powerful, Forgotten Dissent. Review of: Breaking the Promise of Brown: The Resegregation of America’s Schools / Stephen Breyer, with an introduction by Thiru Vignarajah.
Mark Danner. The Slow-Motion Coup. Review of: Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency / Michael Wolff -- The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and the People Who Stopped It / Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague -- How to Stop a Conspiracy: An Ancient Guide to Saving a Republic / Sallust, translated from the Latin and with an introduction by Josiah Osgood -- One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General / William P. Barr -- Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man / Mary L. Trump.
Literature
David Shulman. Cosmic Oceans Squeezed into Atoms. Review of: The Kural: Tiruvalluvar’s Tirukkural / translated from the Tamil by Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma. (Beacon Press)
Ange Minko. Timeless Correspondences. Review of: HERmione / H.D., with an afterword by Francesca Wade -- Winged Words: The Life and Work of the Poet H.D. / Donna Krolik Hollenberg.
Hermione Lee. Poet of the Dispossessed. Review of: Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth / Keiron Pim.
Michael Gorra. Corrections of Taste. Review of: Critical Revolutionaries: Five Critics Who Changed the Way We Read / Terry Eagleton. (F.R. Leavis, William Empson, I.A. Richards, T.S. Eliot, and Raymond Williams)
James Walton. Doomed to Lucidity. Review of the novel The Slowworm’s Song / Andrew Miller.
Verlyn Klinkenborg. Endless Summer. Review of: Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road, a PBS American Masters documentary film directed by Brent Wilson.
History of Science
Jerome Groopman. Understanding Diabetes—and Paying for It. Review of: Insulin—the Crooked Timber: A History from Thick Brown Muck to Wall Street Gold / Kersten T. Hall -- Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease / Arleen Marcia Tuchman.
Erin Maglaque. Rome Was His Laboratory. Review of: The Incomparable Monsignor: Francesco Bianchini’s World of Science, History, and Court Intrigue / J.L. Heilbron.
Bill McKibben. Where Will We Live?. Review of: Nowhere Left to Go: How Climate Change Is Driving Species to the Ends of the Earth / Benjamin von Brackel, translated from the German by Ayça Türkoğlu -- Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World / Gaia Vince -- Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism / Harsha Walia.
History & Society
David S. Reynolds. Throngs of Unseen People. Review of: In the Houses of Their Dead: The Lincolns, the Booths, and the Spirits / Terry Alford. "Terry Alford’s history of spiritualism during the Civil War era, suggests an unexpected link between the Lincoln family and that of John Wilkes Booth."
Leslie T. Chang. Little Town on the Prairie. Review of: China in One Village: The Story of One Town and the Changing World / Liang Hong, translated from the Chinese by Emily Goedde.
Linda Greenhouse. A Powerful, Forgotten Dissent. Review of: Breaking the Promise of Brown: The Resegregation of America’s Schools / Stephen Breyer, with an introduction by Thiru Vignarajah.
Mark Danner. The Slow-Motion Coup. Review of: Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency / Michael Wolff -- The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and the People Who Stopped It / Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague -- How to Stop a Conspiracy: An Ancient Guide to Saving a Republic / Sallust, translated from the Latin and with an introduction by Josiah Osgood -- One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General / William P. Barr -- Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man / Mary L. Trump.
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New York Review of Books Oct. 20, 2022
Literature & Arts
Mark Ford. ‘An Age of Prudence.’ Review of: The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound / T.S. Eliot, edited by Valerie Eliot (to be publ. Nov.) -- Eliot After The Waste Land / Robert Crawford -- The Complete Prose of T.S. Eliot: The Critical Edition / edited by Ronald Schuchard.
Peter Brooks. Resurrecting a Polyphonic Past. Review of: The Betrothed / Alessandro Manzoni, translated from the Italian and with an introduction by Michael F. Moore, and a preface by Jhumpa Lahiri (Modern Library).
Robert Macfarlane. A Fireball from the Sands. Review of: Gilgamesh: A New Translation of the Ancient Epic / translated from the Akkadian and with essays by Sophus Helle.
Kwame Anthony Appiah. Symphilosophizing in Jena. Review of: Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self / Andrea Wulf -- Jena 1800: The Republic of Free Spirits / Peter Neumann, translated from the German by Shelley Frisch.
Christopher Benfy. Emerson & His ‘Big Brethren’. Review of: The California Days of Ralph Waldo Emerson / Brian C. Wilson.
Geoffrey O'Brien. Keep Your Eye on the Kid. Review of: Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker’s Life / James Curtis -- Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century / Dana Stevens.
Frances Wilson. Agatha Christie’s Nightmares. Review of Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman / Lucy Worsley.
Anahid Nersessian. LA Elegies. Review of: The Discarded Life / Adam Kirsch -- My Hollywood and Other Poems / Boris Dralyuk.
History & Society
Mary Wellesley. Lice and Licentiousness. Review of: A Cultural History of Hair in the Middle Ages / edited by Roberta Milliken.
Neal Ascherson. Hugging the Shores. Review of: The Amur River: Between Russia and China / Colin Thubron.
Jenny Uglow. Silences and Scars. Review of: Berlin: Life and Death in the City at the Center of the World / Sinclair McKay -- The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin / Kirsty Bell.
Leslie Jamieson. The Bear's Kiss. Review of: In the Eye of the Wild / Nastassja Martin, translated from the French by Sophie R. Lewis -- Lamb / a film directed by Valdimar Jóhannsson.
Tim Parks. The Pope’s Many Silences. Review of: The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler / David I. Kertzer -- The Pope and the Holocaust: Pius XII and the Vatican Secret Archives / Michael Hesemann, translated from the German by Michael J. Miller and Frank Nitsche-Robinson.
Caroline Fraser. Trouble in River City. Review of: Imagining the Heartland: White Supremacy and the American Midwest / Britt E. Halvorson and Joshua O. Reno -- My Three Dads: Patriarchy on the Great Plains / Jessa Crispin.
Joshua Cohen. Lucky Guy. Review of: Breaking History: A White House Memoir / Jared Kushner.
Ian Johnson. China: Back to Authoritarianism. (Essay)
Two On the Late Queen E.
Finan O'Toole. The Two Elizabeths.
Darryl Pinckney. ‘She Captured All Before Her.’
Literature & Arts
Mark Ford. ‘An Age of Prudence.’ Review of: The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound / T.S. Eliot, edited by Valerie Eliot (to be publ. Nov.) -- Eliot After The Waste Land / Robert Crawford -- The Complete Prose of T.S. Eliot: The Critical Edition / edited by Ronald Schuchard.
Peter Brooks. Resurrecting a Polyphonic Past. Review of: The Betrothed / Alessandro Manzoni, translated from the Italian and with an introduction by Michael F. Moore, and a preface by Jhumpa Lahiri (Modern Library).
Robert Macfarlane. A Fireball from the Sands. Review of: Gilgamesh: A New Translation of the Ancient Epic / translated from the Akkadian and with essays by Sophus Helle.
Kwame Anthony Appiah. Symphilosophizing in Jena. Review of: Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self / Andrea Wulf -- Jena 1800: The Republic of Free Spirits / Peter Neumann, translated from the German by Shelley Frisch.
Christopher Benfy. Emerson & His ‘Big Brethren’. Review of: The California Days of Ralph Waldo Emerson / Brian C. Wilson.
Geoffrey O'Brien. Keep Your Eye on the Kid. Review of: Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker’s Life / James Curtis -- Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century / Dana Stevens.
Frances Wilson. Agatha Christie’s Nightmares. Review of Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman / Lucy Worsley.
Anahid Nersessian. LA Elegies. Review of: The Discarded Life / Adam Kirsch -- My Hollywood and Other Poems / Boris Dralyuk.
History & Society
Mary Wellesley. Lice and Licentiousness. Review of: A Cultural History of Hair in the Middle Ages / edited by Roberta Milliken.
Neal Ascherson. Hugging the Shores. Review of: The Amur River: Between Russia and China / Colin Thubron.
Jenny Uglow. Silences and Scars. Review of: Berlin: Life and Death in the City at the Center of the World / Sinclair McKay -- The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin / Kirsty Bell.
Leslie Jamieson. The Bear's Kiss. Review of: In the Eye of the Wild / Nastassja Martin, translated from the French by Sophie R. Lewis -- Lamb / a film directed by Valdimar Jóhannsson.
Tim Parks. The Pope’s Many Silences. Review of: The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler / David I. Kertzer -- The Pope and the Holocaust: Pius XII and the Vatican Secret Archives / Michael Hesemann, translated from the German by Michael J. Miller and Frank Nitsche-Robinson.
Caroline Fraser. Trouble in River City. Review of: Imagining the Heartland: White Supremacy and the American Midwest / Britt E. Halvorson and Joshua O. Reno -- My Three Dads: Patriarchy on the Great Plains / Jessa Crispin.
Joshua Cohen. Lucky Guy. Review of: Breaking History: A White House Memoir / Jared Kushner.
Ian Johnson. China: Back to Authoritarianism. (Essay)
Two On the Late Queen E.
Finan O'Toole. The Two Elizabeths.
Darryl Pinckney. ‘She Captured All Before Her.’
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Public Books Digital Humanities
Karl Berglund. 10/05/2022: Audiobooks: Every Minute Contents.
Melanie Walsh. 10/04/2022: Where Is All the Book Data?
Karl Berglund. 10/05/2022: Audiobooks: Every Minute Contents.
Melanie Walsh. 10/04/2022: Where Is All the Book Data?
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"Epiphanies can prompt us to view the world differently, a new book contends. But they are no substitute for ethical and political debate."
Rachel Fraser. Boston Review, 10/05/2022: You Owe Me an Argument. Review of: Epiphanies: An Ethics of Experience / Sophie Grace Chappell.
Rachel Fraser. Boston Review, 10/05/2022: You Owe Me an Argument. Review of: Epiphanies: An Ethics of Experience / Sophie Grace Chappell.
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Robert Zaretsky. Quillette, 10/05/2022: Two Hundred Years of Stendhal.
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Blake Smith. American Affairs, Fall 2022, vol. VI, no. 3: An Illiberal Life. Review of: Not Thinking Like a Liberal / Raymond Geuss.
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TLS October 7, 2022|No. 6236
Literature:
Chloe Chard. Erotic frigidaire: Neoclassicism in letters, music and sculpture. Review of: The Living Death of Antiquity: Neoclassical aesthetics / William Fitzgerald.
Lindsey Hilsum. Romance, reaction, providence: The fictional biography of a picaresque nineteenth-century adventurer. Review of: The Romantic / William Boyd.
Philip Womack. Tell a story, own a world: A literary fable of good and evil. Review of: Fairy Tale / Stephen King.
Sheena Joughin. Bullets over Soho: A spy, thief, ghost and matriarch in the nightclubs of interwar London. Review of: Shrines of Gaiety / Kate Atkinson.
Hal Jensen. Shades of bruise: A graphic novelist brilliantly dissects lifeless suburbia. Review of: Acting Class / Nick Drnaso.
Michael Gorra. Back to Yoknapatawpha: Tales of the attorney who became Faulkner’s spokesman for the ‘moderate’ white South. Review of: Knight's Gambit / William Faulkner, Edited by John N. Duvall.
George Prochnik. A stranger in every town: Joseph Roth and his skill at identifying ‘fleeting moments with universal implications.’ Review of: Endless Flight: The life of Joseph Roth / Keiron Pim.
Andrew Hadfield. A more brilliant bird: Compiling the canon of Shakespeare’s first critic and rival. Review of: Reading Robert Greene: Recovering Shakespeare’s rival / Darren Freebury-Jones.
Georgina Wilson. A woman’s poet: Shakespeare’s pioneering female editors. Review of: Shakespeare's "Lady Editors:" A new history of the Shakespearean text / Molly G. Yarn.
William Wooten. Fifty years a letter unanswered: The correspondence of the poet of Briggflatts. Review of: Letters of Basil Bunting / Alex Niven, editor.
Brian Morton. A. N. Other: The autobiography of a novelist, journalist and biographer. Review of: Confessions: A Life of Failed Promises / A.N. Wilson.
Arts:
Paula Marantz Cohen. Tailoring his art: The ‘uncannily original’ work of a self-taught painter saved from snobbish neglect. Review of: Master of the Two Left Feet: Morris Hirshfield rediscovered / Richard Meyer and a review of the exhibition Morris Hirshfield rediscovered, American Folk Art Museum, New York, until January 29, 2023.
Frances Wilson. Mama of Dada and friends: A cubist portrait of an art-world love triangle. Review of: Spellbound by Marcel: Duchamp, love, and art / Ruth Brandon.
Religion:
Lamorna Ash. Losing his religion: Escaping a cult but missing a sense of community. Review of: Immanuel / Matthew McNaught -- The Last Days: A memoir of faith, desire and freedom / Ali Millar.
Franklin Nelson. God squad: The troubled upbringing of a former Jehovah’s Witness. Review of: Without Warning and Only Sometimes: Scenes from an unpredictable childhood / Kit de Waal.
History, Politics, & Society
Colin Thubron. One step beyond: An anthology of human beings straining at the limits. Review of: Endurance: 100 tales of survival, adventure and exploration / Levison Wood.
Tom Holland. Rich as Crassus: The unlovely life of a plutocrat allied to Caesar and Pompey. Review of: Crassus: The First Tycoon / Peter Stothard.
Ann Kennedy Smith. Dynamite debates: Female autonomy in the early twentieth century. Review of: Hotbed: Bohemian New York and the secret club that sparked modern feminism / Joanna Scutts.
Susie Mesure. Snow job: The British bank that laundered a drug cartel’s billions. Review of: Too Big to Jail: Inside HSBC, the Mexican drug cartels and the greatest banking scandal of the century / Chris Blackhurst.
Stuart Walton. Wrong kind of drugs: The authorities target opium but not opioid prescriptions. Review of: Opium's Orphans: The 200-year history of the war on drugs / P. E. Caquet.
Maxine Berg. Midland Motown: A history of Birmingham from the Civil War to the present. Second City: Birmingham and the forging of modern Britain / Richard Vinen.
Chris Mullin. Partying amid the ruins: The final instalment of the socialite Tory MP’s unexpurgated diaries. Review of: Henry "Chips" Channon: The Diaries 1943–1957 / Simon Heffer, editor.
In Brief Review of: Cabin Fever: Trapped on board a cruise ship when the pandemic hit / Michael Smith and Jonathan Franklin.
In Brief Review of: Marble in Metamorphosis / Rachel Cusk and Chris Kontos.
In Brief Review of: Embodying the Soul: Medicine and religion in Carolingian Europe.
In Brief Review of: The Wordhord: Daily life in Old English / Hana Videen.
Literature:
Chloe Chard. Erotic frigidaire: Neoclassicism in letters, music and sculpture. Review of: The Living Death of Antiquity: Neoclassical aesthetics / William Fitzgerald.
Lindsey Hilsum. Romance, reaction, providence: The fictional biography of a picaresque nineteenth-century adventurer. Review of: The Romantic / William Boyd.
Philip Womack. Tell a story, own a world: A literary fable of good and evil. Review of: Fairy Tale / Stephen King.
Sheena Joughin. Bullets over Soho: A spy, thief, ghost and matriarch in the nightclubs of interwar London. Review of: Shrines of Gaiety / Kate Atkinson.
Hal Jensen. Shades of bruise: A graphic novelist brilliantly dissects lifeless suburbia. Review of: Acting Class / Nick Drnaso.
Michael Gorra. Back to Yoknapatawpha: Tales of the attorney who became Faulkner’s spokesman for the ‘moderate’ white South. Review of: Knight's Gambit / William Faulkner, Edited by John N. Duvall.
George Prochnik. A stranger in every town: Joseph Roth and his skill at identifying ‘fleeting moments with universal implications.’ Review of: Endless Flight: The life of Joseph Roth / Keiron Pim.
Andrew Hadfield. A more brilliant bird: Compiling the canon of Shakespeare’s first critic and rival. Review of: Reading Robert Greene: Recovering Shakespeare’s rival / Darren Freebury-Jones.
Georgina Wilson. A woman’s poet: Shakespeare’s pioneering female editors. Review of: Shakespeare's "Lady Editors:" A new history of the Shakespearean text / Molly G. Yarn.
William Wooten. Fifty years a letter unanswered: The correspondence of the poet of Briggflatts. Review of: Letters of Basil Bunting / Alex Niven, editor.
Brian Morton. A. N. Other: The autobiography of a novelist, journalist and biographer. Review of: Confessions: A Life of Failed Promises / A.N. Wilson.
Arts:
Paula Marantz Cohen. Tailoring his art: The ‘uncannily original’ work of a self-taught painter saved from snobbish neglect. Review of: Master of the Two Left Feet: Morris Hirshfield rediscovered / Richard Meyer and a review of the exhibition Morris Hirshfield rediscovered, American Folk Art Museum, New York, until January 29, 2023.
Frances Wilson. Mama of Dada and friends: A cubist portrait of an art-world love triangle. Review of: Spellbound by Marcel: Duchamp, love, and art / Ruth Brandon.
Religion:
Lamorna Ash. Losing his religion: Escaping a cult but missing a sense of community. Review of: Immanuel / Matthew McNaught -- The Last Days: A memoir of faith, desire and freedom / Ali Millar.
Franklin Nelson. God squad: The troubled upbringing of a former Jehovah’s Witness. Review of: Without Warning and Only Sometimes: Scenes from an unpredictable childhood / Kit de Waal.
History, Politics, & Society
Colin Thubron. One step beyond: An anthology of human beings straining at the limits. Review of: Endurance: 100 tales of survival, adventure and exploration / Levison Wood.
Tom Holland. Rich as Crassus: The unlovely life of a plutocrat allied to Caesar and Pompey. Review of: Crassus: The First Tycoon / Peter Stothard.
Ann Kennedy Smith. Dynamite debates: Female autonomy in the early twentieth century. Review of: Hotbed: Bohemian New York and the secret club that sparked modern feminism / Joanna Scutts.
Susie Mesure. Snow job: The British bank that laundered a drug cartel’s billions. Review of: Too Big to Jail: Inside HSBC, the Mexican drug cartels and the greatest banking scandal of the century / Chris Blackhurst.
Stuart Walton. Wrong kind of drugs: The authorities target opium but not opioid prescriptions. Review of: Opium's Orphans: The 200-year history of the war on drugs / P. E. Caquet.
Maxine Berg. Midland Motown: A history of Birmingham from the Civil War to the present. Second City: Birmingham and the forging of modern Britain / Richard Vinen.
Chris Mullin. Partying amid the ruins: The final instalment of the socialite Tory MP’s unexpurgated diaries. Review of: Henry "Chips" Channon: The Diaries 1943–1957 / Simon Heffer, editor.
In Brief Review of: Cabin Fever: Trapped on board a cruise ship when the pandemic hit / Michael Smith and Jonathan Franklin.
In Brief Review of: Marble in Metamorphosis / Rachel Cusk and Chris Kontos.
In Brief Review of: Embodying the Soul: Medicine and religion in Carolingian Europe.
In Brief Review of: The Wordhord: Daily life in Old English / Hana Videen.
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Zachary Hardman. The Critic, 10/02/2022: Tolkien and environmentalism.
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David Peña-Guzmán, interviewed by Cal Flynn. fivebooks.com, 10/05/2022: The best books on Animal Consciousness.
Peña-Guzmán is the author of When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness.
Books discussed:
The Animal Mind: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Animal Cognition / Kristin Andrews.
What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions? / Vinciane Despret, translated by Brett Buchanan.
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us / Ed Yong.
The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy—and Why They Matter / Marc Bekoff.
Why Look At Animals? / John Berger.
Peña-Guzmán is the author of When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness.
Books discussed:
The Animal Mind: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Animal Cognition / Kristin Andrews.
What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions? / Vinciane Despret, translated by Brett Buchanan.
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us / Ed Yong.
The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy—and Why They Matter / Marc Bekoff.
Why Look At Animals? / John Berger.
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NYT, 10/06/2022: Live Updates: Nobel Prize in Literature Is Awarded to Annie Ernaux.
"The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded on Thursday to Annie Ernaux, the French novelist whose intensely personal books have spoken to generations of women by highlighting incidents from her own life, including a back-street abortion in the 1960s and a passionate extramarital affair."
Jacob Brogan. WaPo, 10/06/2022: Nobel Prize in literature goes to Annie Ernaux, known for memoir ‘The Years.’
Jamie Hood. The Baffler, 10/03/2022: Annie Ernaux’s Total Novel of Life.
Sarah Shaffi. The Guardian, 10/06/2022: Annie Ernaux wins the 2022 Nobel prize in literature.
April Schwartz. The New Yorker, 04/13/2022: A Memoirist Who Mistrusts Her Own Memories. Review of A Girl's Story / Annie Ernaux ; translated by Alison L. Strayer.
Sigrid Nunez. New York Review of Books, 11/03/2022: Gored in the afternoon. Review of: Getting Lost / Annie Ernaux, translated from the French by Alison L. Strayer.
Adam Gopnik. New Yorker, 10/09/2022: Annie Ernaux’s Justly Deserved Nobel.
"The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded on Thursday to Annie Ernaux, the French novelist whose intensely personal books have spoken to generations of women by highlighting incidents from her own life, including a back-street abortion in the 1960s and a passionate extramarital affair."
Jacob Brogan. WaPo, 10/06/2022: Nobel Prize in literature goes to Annie Ernaux, known for memoir ‘The Years.’
Jamie Hood. The Baffler, 10/03/2022: Annie Ernaux’s Total Novel of Life.
Sarah Shaffi. The Guardian, 10/06/2022: Annie Ernaux wins the 2022 Nobel prize in literature.
April Schwartz. The New Yorker, 04/13/2022: A Memoirist Who Mistrusts Her Own Memories. Review of A Girl's Story / Annie Ernaux ; translated by Alison L. Strayer.
Sigrid Nunez. New York Review of Books, 11/03/2022: Gored in the afternoon. Review of: Getting Lost / Annie Ernaux, translated from the French by Alison L. Strayer.
Adam Gopnik. New Yorker, 10/09/2022: Annie Ernaux’s Justly Deserved Nobel.
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"A reading list of works by perennial favorites, including this year's awardee, Annie Ernaux."
Alex Shepherd. The Atlantic, 10/05/2022: Five Authors We Thought Might Win the Nobel—Including One Who Did.
Alex Shepherd. The Atlantic, 10/05/2022: Five Authors We Thought Might Win the Nobel—Including One Who Did.
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Recent articles from JSTOR Daily:
Josh Lambert. 10/05/2022: ’Twas Thrilling When Trilling Wrote a Blurb. "The renowned literary critic famously withheld his imprimatur from the books of peers and students, with two notable exceptions. What do they reveal?"
Emily Zarevich. 10/05/2022: Remembering Gwendolyn MacEwen. "The Canadian poet was inspired by everything from Ancient Egyptian mythology to folk magic, from Gnosticism to global politics."
Josh Lambert. 10/05/2022: ’Twas Thrilling When Trilling Wrote a Blurb. "The renowned literary critic famously withheld his imprimatur from the books of peers and students, with two notable exceptions. What do they reveal?"
Emily Zarevich. 10/05/2022: Remembering Gwendolyn MacEwen. "The Canadian poet was inspired by everything from Ancient Egyptian mythology to folk magic, from Gnosticism to global politics."
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Nicholas Barrett. BBC Culture, 10/05/2022: The Soviet novel 'too dangerous to read.' On Life and Fate / Vasily Grossman.
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Robert Lyman. The Critic, 10/02/2022: Violence against history. Review of: Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire / Caroline Elkins.
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Jordan Pruett. Public Books, 10/11/2022: What Counts As a Bestseller?
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Samuel Clowes Huneke. Boston Review, 10/07/2022: Hilary Mantel, Historian.
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Los Angeles Review of Books:
Erin L. Thompson. 10/12/2022: Musket on Your Shoulder and No Bread at Home. Review of: The Families’ Civil War: Black Soldiers and the Fight for Racial Justice / Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.
Henry M. Cowles. 10/11/2022: What Is It Like to Have a Brain? Review of: Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness / Patrick House.
Oona Houlihan. 10/11/2022: Variations on a Theme. Review of: First Love and My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley.
Kaya Genç. 10/10/2022: All That Really Happens Happens to Me. Review of: Getting Lost / Annie Ernaux.
David Carrrier. 10/09/2022: Time Will Tell. Review of: A Philosophy for Future Generations: The Structure and Dynamics of Transgenerationality / Tiziana Andina.
Sohum Pal. 10/09/2022: Femo-Imperialism and La Mission Civilisatrice. Review of: A Feminist Theory of Violence: A Decolonial Perspective / Françoise Vergès.
Erin L. Thompson. 10/12/2022: Musket on Your Shoulder and No Bread at Home. Review of: The Families’ Civil War: Black Soldiers and the Fight for Racial Justice / Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.
Henry M. Cowles. 10/11/2022: What Is It Like to Have a Brain? Review of: Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness / Patrick House.
Oona Houlihan. 10/11/2022: Variations on a Theme. Review of: First Love and My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley.
Kaya Genç. 10/10/2022: All That Really Happens Happens to Me. Review of: Getting Lost / Annie Ernaux.
David Carrrier. 10/09/2022: Time Will Tell. Review of: A Philosophy for Future Generations: The Structure and Dynamics of Transgenerationality / Tiziana Andina.
Sohum Pal. 10/09/2022: Femo-Imperialism and La Mission Civilisatrice. Review of: A Feminist Theory of Violence: A Decolonial Perspective / Françoise Vergès.
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Joan Acocella. New Yorker, 10/10/2022: Italy’s Great Historical Novel On a new translation of The Betrothed by Alessandro Massoni, translated by Michael F. Moore.
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TLS October 14, 2022|No. 6237
Literature:
Lauren Elkin. Against storytelling: The scrupulous objectivity of the 2022 Nobel laureate, Annie Ernaux. (Essay)
Robert Potts. Tinker, tailor, lover, spy: Betrayal in the life of John le Carré. Review of: A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré / Edited by Tim Cornwell -- The Secret Heart: John le Carré: An intimate memoir / Suleika Dawson.
Heather Cass White. A hero of our time: Motherhood, money and genius in Helen DeWitt’s sui generis fiction. Review of: The English Understand Wool / Helen DeWitt -- "The Last Samurai" Reread / Lee Konstantinou.
Miranda France. The skull beneath the skin: Clarice Lispector’s chronicles of a life revealed and withheld. Review of: Too Much of Life: Complete Chronicles / Clarice Lispector, translated by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson.
David Gallagher. Spain’s comédie humaine: A prolific novelist who had Balzac’s range and Tolstoy’s compassion. Review of: La Mirada Quieta (De Pérez Galdós) / Mario Vargas Llosa.
Kevin Brazil. Up against the limits: Exploring the truth of another’s death. Review of: Ti Amo / Hanne Ørstavik; translated by Martin Aitken.
Craig Raine. Treasure hunt: The literary legacies of a real-life legacy. (Essay)
In Brief Review of: D. H. Lawrence and Attachment / Ronald Granofsky.
In Brief Review of: Across Texts: Essays on different forms of French textuality / Keith Reader.
Arts:
Boyd Tonkin. Word made flesh: The Gospels come home. Review of: The Lindisfarne Gospels: Art, history and inspiration / Eleanor Jackson and the exhibition The Lindisfarne Gospels, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, until December 3.
Larry Wolff. Love shall not triumph: The Met’s first staging of Cherubini’s revenger’s tragedy. Review of the NY Metropolitan Opera's production of Cherubini's Medea.
Religion:
Jonathan Benthall. Yoga and the commissars: The lessons to be learnt from religious difference. Review of: Stealing My Religion: Not just any cultural appropriation / Liz Bucar.
Paul Fredriksen. Martyrs to the cause: A defining tradition in both Protestant and Catholic Christianity. Review of: Cult of the Dead: A brief history of Christianity / Kyle Smith.
Science and Technology:
Sara Hudston. Among the cagouligans: A tour of marsh life that draws on local history and reportage. Review of: Swamp Songs: Journeys through marsh, meadow and other wetlands / Tony Blass.
Richard Dunn. Got it taped: Measurement as a facet of the human condition. Review of: Beyond Measure: The hidden history of measurement / James Vincent.
Charles Foster. A river runs through it: A ‘sublime and companionable’ meditation on nature’s processes. Review of: The Flow: Rivers, water and wildness / Amy-Jane Beer.
Politics & Society:
George Hoare. Full Marx: The Manifesto as green tract. Review of: A Spectre, Haunting: On “The Communist Manifesto" / China Miéville.
Peter Frankopan. Roads to nowhere: How the West got China wrong in the years after Mao. Review of: China After Mao: The rise of a superpower / Frank Dikötter.
Rosemary Righter. Helmsman for life?: Xi Jinping will tighten his grip at the Communist Party congress, but at a high cost to China. Review of: Xi: A study in power / Kerry Brown -- Xi Jinping: The most powerful man in the world / Stefan Aust and Adrian Geiges -- Xi Jinping: Political career, governance, and leadership, 1953-2018 / Alfred L. Chan.
Norma Clarke. Capturing a life less ordinary: Jan Morris: a writer who crossed every frontier, geographical and personal. Review of: Jan Morris: A Life From Both Sides / Paul Clements.
In Brief Review of: Tunguska: A Siberian mystery and its environmental legacy / Andy Bruno.
In Brief Review of: Inventing William of Norwich: Thomas of Monmouth, antisemitism, and literary culture 1150-1200 / Heather Blurton.
In Brief Review of: La Cucina in Valigia / Gaia Servadio.
Literature:
Lauren Elkin. Against storytelling: The scrupulous objectivity of the 2022 Nobel laureate, Annie Ernaux. (Essay)
Robert Potts. Tinker, tailor, lover, spy: Betrayal in the life of John le Carré. Review of: A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré / Edited by Tim Cornwell -- The Secret Heart: John le Carré: An intimate memoir / Suleika Dawson.
Heather Cass White. A hero of our time: Motherhood, money and genius in Helen DeWitt’s sui generis fiction. Review of: The English Understand Wool / Helen DeWitt -- "The Last Samurai" Reread / Lee Konstantinou.
Miranda France. The skull beneath the skin: Clarice Lispector’s chronicles of a life revealed and withheld. Review of: Too Much of Life: Complete Chronicles / Clarice Lispector, translated by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson.
David Gallagher. Spain’s comédie humaine: A prolific novelist who had Balzac’s range and Tolstoy’s compassion. Review of: La Mirada Quieta (De Pérez Galdós) / Mario Vargas Llosa.
Kevin Brazil. Up against the limits: Exploring the truth of another’s death. Review of: Ti Amo / Hanne Ørstavik; translated by Martin Aitken.
Craig Raine. Treasure hunt: The literary legacies of a real-life legacy. (Essay)
In Brief Review of: D. H. Lawrence and Attachment / Ronald Granofsky.
In Brief Review of: Across Texts: Essays on different forms of French textuality / Keith Reader.
Arts:
Boyd Tonkin. Word made flesh: The Gospels come home. Review of: The Lindisfarne Gospels: Art, history and inspiration / Eleanor Jackson and the exhibition The Lindisfarne Gospels, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, until December 3.
Larry Wolff. Love shall not triumph: The Met’s first staging of Cherubini’s revenger’s tragedy. Review of the NY Metropolitan Opera's production of Cherubini's Medea.
Religion:
Jonathan Benthall. Yoga and the commissars: The lessons to be learnt from religious difference. Review of: Stealing My Religion: Not just any cultural appropriation / Liz Bucar.
Paul Fredriksen. Martyrs to the cause: A defining tradition in both Protestant and Catholic Christianity. Review of: Cult of the Dead: A brief history of Christianity / Kyle Smith.
Science and Technology:
Sara Hudston. Among the cagouligans: A tour of marsh life that draws on local history and reportage. Review of: Swamp Songs: Journeys through marsh, meadow and other wetlands / Tony Blass.
Richard Dunn. Got it taped: Measurement as a facet of the human condition. Review of: Beyond Measure: The hidden history of measurement / James Vincent.
Charles Foster. A river runs through it: A ‘sublime and companionable’ meditation on nature’s processes. Review of: The Flow: Rivers, water and wildness / Amy-Jane Beer.
Politics & Society:
George Hoare. Full Marx: The Manifesto as green tract. Review of: A Spectre, Haunting: On “The Communist Manifesto" / China Miéville.
Peter Frankopan. Roads to nowhere: How the West got China wrong in the years after Mao. Review of: China After Mao: The rise of a superpower / Frank Dikötter.
Rosemary Righter. Helmsman for life?: Xi Jinping will tighten his grip at the Communist Party congress, but at a high cost to China. Review of: Xi: A study in power / Kerry Brown -- Xi Jinping: The most powerful man in the world / Stefan Aust and Adrian Geiges -- Xi Jinping: Political career, governance, and leadership, 1953-2018 / Alfred L. Chan.
Norma Clarke. Capturing a life less ordinary: Jan Morris: a writer who crossed every frontier, geographical and personal. Review of: Jan Morris: A Life From Both Sides / Paul Clements.
In Brief Review of: Tunguska: A Siberian mystery and its environmental legacy / Andy Bruno.
In Brief Review of: Inventing William of Norwich: Thomas of Monmouth, antisemitism, and literary culture 1150-1200 / Heather Blurton.
In Brief Review of: La Cucina in Valigia / Gaia Servadio.
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New York Review of Books, Nov. 3 2022
Literature
Sigrid Nunez. Gored in the afternoon. Review of: Getting Lost / Annie Ernaux, translated from the French by Alison L. Strayer.
John Banville. ‘A God Can Do It.’ Review of: Rilke: The Last Inward Man / Lesley Chamberlain.
Robyn Creswell. Then What Happened? Review of: The Annotated Arabian Nights: Tales from 1,001 Nights / translated from the Arabic by Yasmine Seale, edited and with an introduction and notes by Paulo Lemos Horta.
Merve Emre. The Illusion of the First Person. (Essay)
Giles Harvey. The History Boy. Review of: Lessons / Ian McEwan.
Science & Speculation
Kathryn Hughes. Department of Speculation. Review of: The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold / Sam Knight.
James Gleick. Space-Age Magus. Review of: Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller / Alec Nevala-Lee.
Politics & Society
Bill Keller. Reform or Abolish? Review of: We Do This ’Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice / Mariame Kaba, edited by Tamara K. Nopper and with a foreword by Naomi Murakawa -- Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation / Ruth Wilson Gilmore, edited by Brenna Bhandar and Alberto Toscano.
Jed S. Rakoff. A Prisoner of His Own Restraint. Review of: Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment / Brad Snyder.
Geoffrey Wheatcroft. The Limits of Press Power. Review of: The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler / Kathryn S. Olmsted -- The Media Offensive: How the Press and Public Opinion Shaped Allied Strategy During World War II / Alexander G. Lovelace.
Brenda Wineapple. Living in Words. Review of: Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life / Lydia Moland.
Francine Prose. ‘We Know What That’s Like.’ Review of: No Bears / a film written and directed by Jafar Panahi. "The filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s recent arrest in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison marks the latest phase in a campaign that the Iranian judiciary has been waging against him for over a decade."
Literature
Sigrid Nunez. Gored in the afternoon. Review of: Getting Lost / Annie Ernaux, translated from the French by Alison L. Strayer.
John Banville. ‘A God Can Do It.’ Review of: Rilke: The Last Inward Man / Lesley Chamberlain.
Robyn Creswell. Then What Happened? Review of: The Annotated Arabian Nights: Tales from 1,001 Nights / translated from the Arabic by Yasmine Seale, edited and with an introduction and notes by Paulo Lemos Horta.
Merve Emre. The Illusion of the First Person. (Essay)
Giles Harvey. The History Boy. Review of: Lessons / Ian McEwan.
Science & Speculation
Kathryn Hughes. Department of Speculation. Review of: The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold / Sam Knight.
James Gleick. Space-Age Magus. Review of: Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller / Alec Nevala-Lee.
Politics & Society
Bill Keller. Reform or Abolish? Review of: We Do This ’Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice / Mariame Kaba, edited by Tamara K. Nopper and with a foreword by Naomi Murakawa -- Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation / Ruth Wilson Gilmore, edited by Brenna Bhandar and Alberto Toscano.
Jed S. Rakoff. A Prisoner of His Own Restraint. Review of: Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment / Brad Snyder.
Geoffrey Wheatcroft. The Limits of Press Power. Review of: The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler / Kathryn S. Olmsted -- The Media Offensive: How the Press and Public Opinion Shaped Allied Strategy During World War II / Alexander G. Lovelace.
Brenda Wineapple. Living in Words. Review of: Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life / Lydia Moland.
Francine Prose. ‘We Know What That’s Like.’ Review of: No Bears / a film written and directed by Jafar Panahi. "The filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s recent arrest in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison marks the latest phase in a campaign that the Iranian judiciary has been waging against him for over a decade."
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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida wins Booker Prize.
"The Sri Lankan writer received the award, one of the most prestigious literary prizes in the world, for his second novel, which examines the trauma of his country’s decades-long civil war."
Alexandra Alter. NYT, 10/17/2022: Shehan Karunatilaka Wins Booker Prize for ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.’
"The Sri Lankan writer received the award, one of the most prestigious literary prizes in the world, for his second novel, which examines the trauma of his country’s decades-long civil war."
Alexandra Alter. NYT, 10/17/2022: Shehan Karunatilaka Wins Booker Prize for ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.’
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TLS October 21, 2022|No. 6238
Literature:
Claire Lowden. Dickens in Appalachia: A lyrical re-dreaming of David Copperfield. Review of: Demon Copperhead / Barbara Kingsolver.
George Berridge. End of the road: Cormac McCarthy’s long-awaited diptych of conspiracy and nuclear anxiety. Review of: The Passenger and Stella Maris / Cormac McCarthy.
Mary C. Flannery. The case for the defence: New evidence suggests that Geoffrey Chaucer may be innocent of rape. (Essay)
Edmund Gordon. Fraud vs larceny: George Saunders’s stories of offbeat realism and moral choice. Review of: Liberation Day / George Saunders.
In Brief Review of: The Book About Everything: Eighteen artists, writers and thinkers on James Joyce’s Ulysses / Declan Kiberd, Enrico Terrinoni and Catherine Wilsdon, editors.
In Brief Review of: Picture Bride: a Novel / Yoshiko Uchida.
In Brief Review of: The Great Book of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table: A new “Morte d’Arthur” / John Matthews, illustrated by John Howe.
Arts:
Gabriel Josipovici. Failing better: Cézanne’s struggle to communicate the incommunicable. Review of: Cezanne, exhibition at the Tate Modern & the accompanying catalog by Achim Borchardt-Hume, Gloria Groom, Caitlin Haskell and Natalia Sidlina, and If These Apples Should Fall: Cézanne and the present / T. J. Clark.
James Cahill. Larger realities: Presenting an American master on his own term. Review of the exhibition Winslow Homer: Force of Nature at the National Gallery.
Charles Darwent. ‘Just what you like’: Making modern art in Britain. Review of: This is Tomorrow: Twentieth-century Britain and its artists / Michael Bird.
Hal Jensen. Die hard but live harder: The posthumous diaries of Alan Rickman, an actor forever on the move. Review of: Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman diaries / Alan Rickman, edited by Alan Taylor.
In Brief Review of: Boys Don't Cry / Chase Joynt and Morgan M. Page.
History, Politics, & Society:
Helen Hackett. Playhouse, pew and palace: A comprehensive view of Tudor England. Review of: Tudor England: a History / Lucy Woodring.
Andrew Preson. On the brink: How Kennedy’s diplomacy averted nuclear Armageddon. Review of: Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 / Max Hastings.
Bryan Karetnyk. Her fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s ‘capitalist realism’ had its roots in her homeland. Review of: Ayn Rand and the Russian Intelligentsia: The origins of an icon of the American right / Derek Offord.
Wendy Slater. Prince and taxi driver: The ordinary and extraordinary lives of émigrés in Paris. Review of: After the Romanovs: Russian exiles in Paris between the wars / Helen Rappaport.
George Feifer. The path to the Kremlin: Two differing accounts of the Russian leader’s turn to tyranny. Review of: Putin: His Life and Times / Philip Short -- The Russian Conundrum: How the West fell for Putin’s power gambit – and how to fix it / Mikhail Khodorkovsky with Martin Sixsmith.
Jesse Norman. In trouble again: Character-revealing glimpses of a self-destructive premier. Review of: Boris Johnson: The rise and fall of a troublemaker at Number 10 / Andrew Gimson.
Maren Meinhardt. The Young Pretenders: Ten dramatic days that lasted a lifetime. Review of: Pretty Young Rebel: The life of Flora Macdonald / Flora Fraser.
Regina Rini. Negative partisans: How do we deal with hatred?. (Essay)
In Brief Review of: Oppian's “Halieutica” : Charting a didactic epic / Emily Kneebone.
In Brief Review of: Henrietta Maria: Conspirator, warrior, phoenix queen / Leanda de Lisle.
In Brief Review of: The Golden Mole: And other living treasure / Katherine Rundell.
Literature:
Claire Lowden. Dickens in Appalachia: A lyrical re-dreaming of David Copperfield. Review of: Demon Copperhead / Barbara Kingsolver.
George Berridge. End of the road: Cormac McCarthy’s long-awaited diptych of conspiracy and nuclear anxiety. Review of: The Passenger and Stella Maris / Cormac McCarthy.
Mary C. Flannery. The case for the defence: New evidence suggests that Geoffrey Chaucer may be innocent of rape. (Essay)
Edmund Gordon. Fraud vs larceny: George Saunders’s stories of offbeat realism and moral choice. Review of: Liberation Day / George Saunders.
In Brief Review of: The Book About Everything: Eighteen artists, writers and thinkers on James Joyce’s Ulysses / Declan Kiberd, Enrico Terrinoni and Catherine Wilsdon, editors.
In Brief Review of: Picture Bride: a Novel / Yoshiko Uchida.
In Brief Review of: The Great Book of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table: A new “Morte d’Arthur” / John Matthews, illustrated by John Howe.
Arts:
Gabriel Josipovici. Failing better: Cézanne’s struggle to communicate the incommunicable. Review of: Cezanne, exhibition at the Tate Modern & the accompanying catalog by Achim Borchardt-Hume, Gloria Groom, Caitlin Haskell and Natalia Sidlina, and If These Apples Should Fall: Cézanne and the present / T. J. Clark.
James Cahill. Larger realities: Presenting an American master on his own term. Review of the exhibition Winslow Homer: Force of Nature at the National Gallery.
Charles Darwent. ‘Just what you like’: Making modern art in Britain. Review of: This is Tomorrow: Twentieth-century Britain and its artists / Michael Bird.
Hal Jensen. Die hard but live harder: The posthumous diaries of Alan Rickman, an actor forever on the move. Review of: Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman diaries / Alan Rickman, edited by Alan Taylor.
In Brief Review of: Boys Don't Cry / Chase Joynt and Morgan M. Page.
History, Politics, & Society:
Helen Hackett. Playhouse, pew and palace: A comprehensive view of Tudor England. Review of: Tudor England: a History / Lucy Woodring.
Andrew Preson. On the brink: How Kennedy’s diplomacy averted nuclear Armageddon. Review of: Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 / Max Hastings.
Bryan Karetnyk. Her fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s ‘capitalist realism’ had its roots in her homeland. Review of: Ayn Rand and the Russian Intelligentsia: The origins of an icon of the American right / Derek Offord.
Wendy Slater. Prince and taxi driver: The ordinary and extraordinary lives of émigrés in Paris. Review of: After the Romanovs: Russian exiles in Paris between the wars / Helen Rappaport.
George Feifer. The path to the Kremlin: Two differing accounts of the Russian leader’s turn to tyranny. Review of: Putin: His Life and Times / Philip Short -- The Russian Conundrum: How the West fell for Putin’s power gambit – and how to fix it / Mikhail Khodorkovsky with Martin Sixsmith.
Jesse Norman. In trouble again: Character-revealing glimpses of a self-destructive premier. Review of: Boris Johnson: The rise and fall of a troublemaker at Number 10 / Andrew Gimson.
Maren Meinhardt. The Young Pretenders: Ten dramatic days that lasted a lifetime. Review of: Pretty Young Rebel: The life of Flora Macdonald / Flora Fraser.
Regina Rini. Negative partisans: How do we deal with hatred?. (Essay)
In Brief Review of: Oppian's “Halieutica” : Charting a didactic epic / Emily Kneebone.
In Brief Review of: Henrietta Maria: Conspirator, warrior, phoenix queen / Leanda de Lisle.
In Brief Review of: The Golden Mole: And other living treasure / Katherine Rundell.
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Recent articles on books from The New Yorker:
Jon Michaud. 10/18/2022: James Purdy Will Never Be Famous Again.
Jane Hu. 10/19/2022: Hilary Mantel’s Double Vision.
Julian Lucas. 10/17/2022: A Nobel Laureate Revisits the Great War’s African Front. Review of: Afterlives / Abdulrazak Gurnah, a sequel to his Paradise.
Louis Menand. 10/17/2022: Who Paul Newman Was—and Who He Wanted to Be. Review of: The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man / Paul Newman.
Sarah Chihaya. 10/16/2022: Kate Atkinson’s Dark Dance with Genre. Review of: Shrines of Gaiety / Kate Atkinson.
Jay Kaspian Kang. 10/11/2022: The Vices and Virtues of the Problematic-Male Confessional. Review of: Predator: A Memoir, a Movie, an Obsession / Ander Manson.
Ted Geltner. 10/06/2022: The Terrifying Car Crash That Inspired a Masterpiece. On the background to Denis Johnson's Car Crash While Hitchhiking.
Geraldo Cadava. 10/05/2022: The Anarchist Who Authored the Mexican Revolution. Review of: Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands / Kelly Lytle Hernández. (on Ricardo Flores Magón)
Jon Michaud. 10/18/2022: James Purdy Will Never Be Famous Again.
Jane Hu. 10/19/2022: Hilary Mantel’s Double Vision.
Julian Lucas. 10/17/2022: A Nobel Laureate Revisits the Great War’s African Front. Review of: Afterlives / Abdulrazak Gurnah, a sequel to his Paradise.
Louis Menand. 10/17/2022: Who Paul Newman Was—and Who He Wanted to Be. Review of: The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man / Paul Newman.
Sarah Chihaya. 10/16/2022: Kate Atkinson’s Dark Dance with Genre. Review of: Shrines of Gaiety / Kate Atkinson.
Jay Kaspian Kang. 10/11/2022: The Vices and Virtues of the Problematic-Male Confessional. Review of: Predator: A Memoir, a Movie, an Obsession / Ander Manson.
Ted Geltner. 10/06/2022: The Terrifying Car Crash That Inspired a Masterpiece. On the background to Denis Johnson's Car Crash While Hitchhiking.
Geraldo Cadava. 10/05/2022: The Anarchist Who Authored the Mexican Revolution. Review of: Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands / Kelly Lytle Hernández. (on Ricardo Flores Magón)
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Recent popular articles from Los Angeles Review of Books:
Caterina Domeneghini. 10/17/2022: How We Know What We Are Being Told. Review of: Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative / Peter Brooks.
David Bentley Hart. 10/16/2022: A Weighty Affair. Review of: Pandemonium : A Visual History of Demonology / Ed Simon.
Matthew James Seidel. 10/15/2022: The First Climate Fiction Masterpiece. Review of: The Kraken Wakes / John Wyndham, introduction by Alexandra Kleeman.
Caterina Domeneghini. 10/17/2022: How We Know What We Are Being Told. Review of: Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative / Peter Brooks.
David Bentley Hart. 10/16/2022: A Weighty Affair. Review of: Pandemonium : A Visual History of Demonology / Ed Simon.
Matthew James Seidel. 10/15/2022: The First Climate Fiction Masterpiece. Review of: The Kraken Wakes / John Wyndham, introduction by Alexandra Kleeman.
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Peter Schjeldahl, 1942-2022
William Grimes. NYT, 10/21/2022: Peter Schjeldahl, New York Art Critic With a Poet’s Voice, Dies at 80. "Mr. Schjeldahl, who wrote for The New Yorker and The Village Voice, was an indispensable guide to art on view, both old and new."
David Remnick. New Yorker, 10/21/2022: Remembering Peter Schjeldahl, a Consummate Critic.
William Grimes. NYT, 10/21/2022: Peter Schjeldahl, New York Art Critic With a Poet’s Voice, Dies at 80. "Mr. Schjeldahl, who wrote for The New Yorker and The Village Voice, was an indispensable guide to art on view, both old and new."
David Remnick. New Yorker, 10/21/2022: Remembering Peter Schjeldahl, a Consummate Critic.
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"Full extent of injuries from ‘brutal attack’ on Satanic Verses author in New York state in August revealed.
Sam Jones. The Guardian, 10/25/2022: Salman Rushdie has lost sight in one eye and use of one hand, says agent.
Sam Jones. The Guardian, 10/25/2022: Salman Rushdie has lost sight in one eye and use of one hand, says agent.
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The acclaimed novelist has moved countries and finds herself at a turning point in her art and in her life.
Thomas Chatterton Williams. The Atlantic, 10/24/2022: Rachel Cusk Won't Stay Still.
Thomas Chatterton Williams. The Atlantic, 10/24/2022: Rachel Cusk Won't Stay Still.
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Dennis J. Junk. Quillette, 10/22/2022: ‘The Dawn of Everything’ and the Politics of Human Prehistory. Review of: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity / David Graeber & David Wengrow.
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Talking about The Wasteland on LitHub.
Literary Hub, 10/24/2022: The Most Important Poem of the 20th Century: On T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” at 100.
Alok A. Khorana. LitHub, 10/24/2022: How Modern is The Waste Land, After All?
Literary Hub, 10/24/2022: The Most Important Poem of the 20th Century: On T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” at 100.
Alok A. Khorana. LitHub, 10/24/2022: How Modern is The Waste Land, After All?
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Reviews from The Baffler:
Nathan Shields. 10/19/2022: In the Domain of Faust: Pianist Jeremy Denk’s memoir is both dirge and demonology. Review of: Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons / Jeremy Denk.
Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein. 10/13/2022: There’s No Such Thing as a Free Market. Review of: Free Market: The History of an Idea / Jacob Soll.
Kevin Rogan. 10/12/2022: Liberation Gospel: Jeremiah Moss’s journey of discovery. Review of: Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York / Jeremiah Moss.
Aaron Timms. 10/06/2022: Constantine Cavafy, Influencer: Standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the TL.
Nathan Shields. 10/19/2022: In the Domain of Faust: Pianist Jeremy Denk’s memoir is both dirge and demonology. Review of: Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons / Jeremy Denk.
Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein. 10/13/2022: There’s No Such Thing as a Free Market. Review of: Free Market: The History of an Idea / Jacob Soll.
Kevin Rogan. 10/12/2022: Liberation Gospel: Jeremiah Moss’s journey of discovery. Review of: Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York / Jeremiah Moss.
Aaron Timms. 10/06/2022: Constantine Cavafy, Influencer: Standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the TL.
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Maria Fitzgerald, interviewer Cal Flynn. fivebooks.com, 10/21/2022: The Best Popular Science Books of 2022: The Royal Society Book Prize.
Books discussed are:
The Greywacke: How a Priest, a Soldier and a School Teacher Uncovered 300 Million Years of History / Nick Davidson.
Different: What Apes Can Teach Us About Gender / Frans de Waal.
Spike: The Virus vs. The People - the Inside Story / Jeremy Farrar & with Anjana Ahuja.
A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters / Henry Gee.
Age Proof: The New Science of Living a Longer and Healthier Life / Rose Anne Kenny.
Hot Air: The Inside Story of the Battle Against Climate Change Denial / Peter Stot.
Books discussed are:
The Greywacke: How a Priest, a Soldier and a School Teacher Uncovered 300 Million Years of History / Nick Davidson.
Different: What Apes Can Teach Us About Gender / Frans de Waal.
Spike: The Virus vs. The People - the Inside Story / Jeremy Farrar & with Anjana Ahuja.
A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters / Henry Gee.
Age Proof: The New Science of Living a Longer and Healthier Life / Rose Anne Kenny.
Hot Air: The Inside Story of the Battle Against Climate Change Denial / Peter Stot.
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TLS October 28, 2022|No. 6239
Literature, Bibliography, & Linguisitics:
Helen Vendler. Falling towers: A ‘supremely satisfying’ account of the making of a modernist masterpiece, 100 years on. Review of: The Waste Land: A biography of a poem / Matthew Hollis.
Suzanne Raitt. Missing in action: Jacob’s Room at 100. (Essay)
Christopher Priest. A middlebrow cult: The official biography of the bestselling fantasy writer. Review of: Terry Pratchett: A life with footnotes: The official biography / Rob Wilkins.
Sarah Crown. Resistance in times of Crisis: Celeste Ng explores ‘art’s capacity to change hearts and minds.’ Review of: Our Missing Hearts / Celeste Ng.
Benjamin Markovits. The new age of innocence: The fourth incarnation of Lucy Barton lives through lockdown. Review of: Lucy by the Sea / Elizabeth Strout.
Beejay Silcox. Write what you know: A friendship on a knife edge in postwar Saint Rémy. Review of: The Book of Goose / Yiyun Li.
Sandra Newman. The great unknown: A fan’s-eye view of fantasy today. Review of: Fantasy: How It Works / Brian Attebery.
Felipe Fernández-Armesto. Lies, damned lies?: A litany of all-encompassing misrepresentations. Review of: A History of Lying/ Juan Jacinto Muñoz-Rengel; translated by Thomas Bunstead.
Edmund Gordon. Show, don’t tell: An overlooked ‘mini art form.’ Review of: Blurb Your Enthusiasm: An A-Z of literary persuasion / Louise Willder.
Ritchie Robertson. Landscape of death: A blend of the military, the paranormal and the erotic. Review of: Baron Bagge / Alexander Lernet-Holenia; translated by Richard Winston and Clara Winston, with a new introduction by Patti Smith.
Paul Binding. A modern breakthrough: Assorted writings of an emancipated Danish author. Review of: Some Would Call This Living: An anthology / Herman Bang; translated by Janet Garton, Charlotte Barslund and Paul Russell Garrett.
Henry Hitchings. Please no squeeza da banana: Exploring the ‘rough and tumble’ of language. Review of: The Art of Verbal Warfare / Rik Smits.
In Brief Review of: Czesław Miłosz’s Faith in the Flesh: Body, belief, and human identity: Body, belief, and human identity / Stanley Bill.
In Brief Review of: Bibliomaniac: An obsessive’s tour of the bookshops of Britain / Robin Ince.
In Brief Review of: The Collectors / Philip Pullman; illustrated by Tom Duxbury.
In Brief Review of: The Literary Mafia: Jews, publishing, and postwar American literature / Josh Lambert.
In Brief Review of: A Film (3,000 Meters) / Víctor Català ; translated by Peter Bush.
Arts:
George Berridge. No man is an island?: A meditation on men and friendship from Martin McDonagh. Review of the film The Banshees of Inisherin.
In Brief Review of: Shakespeare and British World War Two Film / Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr.
Science & Technology:
Joe Moran. Be easy on yourself: A therapist’s observations of damaging self-recrimination. Review of: Everyone's a Critic: How we can learn to be kind to ourselves / Julia Beno.
Beth Guilding. Talking cures: The need for a shift from drugs to human encounter. Review of: Don't Turn Away: Stories of troubled minds in fractured times / Penelope Campling.
History, Politics & Society:
Alan Forrest. The road to St Helena: Napoleon’s enemies at home and abroad. Review of: Napoleon: The decline and fall of an empire, 1811-1821 / Michael Broers -- Napoleon at Peace: How to end a revolution / William Doyle.
Willard Sunderland. Napoleon’s nemesis: The Russian general who won his spurs in Ukraine. Review of: Kutuzov: A life in war and peace / Alexander Mikaberidze.
Valerie Wallace. Selling Scotland: The power of myth to promote an ancient nation. Review of: Scotland: The global history: 1603 to the present / Murray Pittock.
Andrew Martin. Dress codes and dominoes: The role of the club in British society. Review of: Behind Closed Doors: The secret life of London’s private members’ clubs / Seth Alexander Thévoz -- Clubland: How the working men’s club shaped Britain / Pete Brown.
Michael Caines. A world rewritten: The enduring achievements of female writers and travellers. Review of: Trailblazers: Women travel writers and the exchange of knowledge, Chawton House, Hampshire, until February 26, 2023.
Literature, Bibliography, & Linguisitics:
Helen Vendler. Falling towers: A ‘supremely satisfying’ account of the making of a modernist masterpiece, 100 years on. Review of: The Waste Land: A biography of a poem / Matthew Hollis.
Suzanne Raitt. Missing in action: Jacob’s Room at 100. (Essay)
Christopher Priest. A middlebrow cult: The official biography of the bestselling fantasy writer. Review of: Terry Pratchett: A life with footnotes: The official biography / Rob Wilkins.
Sarah Crown. Resistance in times of Crisis: Celeste Ng explores ‘art’s capacity to change hearts and minds.’ Review of: Our Missing Hearts / Celeste Ng.
Benjamin Markovits. The new age of innocence: The fourth incarnation of Lucy Barton lives through lockdown. Review of: Lucy by the Sea / Elizabeth Strout.
Beejay Silcox. Write what you know: A friendship on a knife edge in postwar Saint Rémy. Review of: The Book of Goose / Yiyun Li.
Sandra Newman. The great unknown: A fan’s-eye view of fantasy today. Review of: Fantasy: How It Works / Brian Attebery.
Felipe Fernández-Armesto. Lies, damned lies?: A litany of all-encompassing misrepresentations. Review of: A History of Lying/ Juan Jacinto Muñoz-Rengel; translated by Thomas Bunstead.
Edmund Gordon. Show, don’t tell: An overlooked ‘mini art form.’ Review of: Blurb Your Enthusiasm: An A-Z of literary persuasion / Louise Willder.
Ritchie Robertson. Landscape of death: A blend of the military, the paranormal and the erotic. Review of: Baron Bagge / Alexander Lernet-Holenia; translated by Richard Winston and Clara Winston, with a new introduction by Patti Smith.
Paul Binding. A modern breakthrough: Assorted writings of an emancipated Danish author. Review of: Some Would Call This Living: An anthology / Herman Bang; translated by Janet Garton, Charlotte Barslund and Paul Russell Garrett.
Henry Hitchings. Please no squeeza da banana: Exploring the ‘rough and tumble’ of language. Review of: The Art of Verbal Warfare / Rik Smits.
In Brief Review of: Czesław Miłosz’s Faith in the Flesh: Body, belief, and human identity: Body, belief, and human identity / Stanley Bill.
In Brief Review of: Bibliomaniac: An obsessive’s tour of the bookshops of Britain / Robin Ince.
In Brief Review of: The Collectors / Philip Pullman; illustrated by Tom Duxbury.
In Brief Review of: The Literary Mafia: Jews, publishing, and postwar American literature / Josh Lambert.
In Brief Review of: A Film (3,000 Meters) / Víctor Català ; translated by Peter Bush.
Arts:
George Berridge. No man is an island?: A meditation on men and friendship from Martin McDonagh. Review of the film The Banshees of Inisherin.
In Brief Review of: Shakespeare and British World War Two Film / Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr.
Science & Technology:
Joe Moran. Be easy on yourself: A therapist’s observations of damaging self-recrimination. Review of: Everyone's a Critic: How we can learn to be kind to ourselves / Julia Beno.
Beth Guilding. Talking cures: The need for a shift from drugs to human encounter. Review of: Don't Turn Away: Stories of troubled minds in fractured times / Penelope Campling.
History, Politics & Society:
Alan Forrest. The road to St Helena: Napoleon’s enemies at home and abroad. Review of: Napoleon: The decline and fall of an empire, 1811-1821 / Michael Broers -- Napoleon at Peace: How to end a revolution / William Doyle.
Willard Sunderland. Napoleon’s nemesis: The Russian general who won his spurs in Ukraine. Review of: Kutuzov: A life in war and peace / Alexander Mikaberidze.
Valerie Wallace. Selling Scotland: The power of myth to promote an ancient nation. Review of: Scotland: The global history: 1603 to the present / Murray Pittock.
Andrew Martin. Dress codes and dominoes: The role of the club in British society. Review of: Behind Closed Doors: The secret life of London’s private members’ clubs / Seth Alexander Thévoz -- Clubland: How the working men’s club shaped Britain / Pete Brown.
Michael Caines. A world rewritten: The enduring achievements of female writers and travellers. Review of: Trailblazers: Women travel writers and the exchange of knowledge, Chawton House, Hampshire, until February 26, 2023.
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A recent passing I missed. From Wikipedia:
"Alastair David Shaw Fowler CBE FBA (1930 – 9 October 2022) was a Scottish literary critic, editor, and an authority on Edmund Spenser, Renaissance literature, genre theory, and numerology."
I have 2 editions of his excellent annotated Paradise Lost as well as his History of English Literature.
"Alastair David Shaw Fowler CBE FBA (1930 – 9 October 2022) was a Scottish literary critic, editor, and an authority on Edmund Spenser, Renaissance literature, genre theory, and numerology."
I have 2 editions of his excellent annotated Paradise Lost as well as his History of English Literature.
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Mike Davis, 1946-2022
Neil Genzlinger. NYT, 10/26/2022: Mike Davis, Who Wrote of Los Angeles and Catastrophe, Dies at 76.
Davis was the author of, among others: City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles -- Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster -- Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World.
"His father was active in the meat cutters union, and the struggles Dwight Davis experienced made a strong impression on his son, who described his father as a patriotic man who had faith in the inevitability of human progress.
“By the end of his life, he’d seen his union destroyed and his pension plan taken away,” Mr. Davis said in 1998. “It’s hard to see your parents lose their beliefs.”
LARB, 10/26/2022: Remembering Mike Davis.
Gabriel Winant. n+1, 11/16/2022. Mike Davis’s Specificities.
Neil Genzlinger. NYT, 10/26/2022: Mike Davis, Who Wrote of Los Angeles and Catastrophe, Dies at 76.
Davis was the author of, among others: City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles -- Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster -- Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World.
"His father was active in the meat cutters union, and the struggles Dwight Davis experienced made a strong impression on his son, who described his father as a patriotic man who had faith in the inevitability of human progress.
“By the end of his life, he’d seen his union destroyed and his pension plan taken away,” Mr. Davis said in 1998. “It’s hard to see your parents lose their beliefs.”
LARB, 10/26/2022: Remembering Mike Davis.
Gabriel Winant. n+1, 11/16/2022. Mike Davis’s Specificities.
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Christy Pichichero. Public Books, 10/26/2022: The Dawn of Scientific Racism. Review of: Who’s Black and Why? A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race / Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Andrew S. Curran.
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Diane Cole. BBC Culture, 10/25/2022: Enheduanna: The world's first named author. On the occasion of the exhibition "She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia, ca 3400-2000 BC ... at the Morgan Library, New York City, until 19 February 2023." There is a 2009 book Princess, Priestess, Poet: The Sumerian Temple Hymns of Enheduanna / Betty De Sheong Meador; introduction by John Maier. University of Texas Press.
"Enheduanna was unknown to modernity altogether until 1927, when the archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley excavated objects that bear her name. We now know that her name, in Sumerian, means "Ornament of Heaven", and as the high priestess of the moon deity Nanna-Suen, she composed 42 temple hymns and three stand-alone poems that, like the Epic of Gilgamesh (which is not credited to a named author), scholars consider an important part of Mesopotamia's literary legacy"
"Enheduanna was unknown to modernity altogether until 1927, when the archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley excavated objects that bear her name. We now know that her name, in Sumerian, means "Ornament of Heaven", and as the high priestess of the moon deity Nanna-Suen, she composed 42 temple hymns and three stand-alone poems that, like the Epic of Gilgamesh (which is not credited to a named author), scholars consider an important part of Mesopotamia's literary legacy"
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Reading guides to the city of Istanbul & the science fiction author Philip K. Dick:
Elif Shafak. NYT, 10/26/2022: Read Your Way Through Istanbul.
Molly Yong. NYT, 10/25/2022: The Essential Philip K. Dick.
Elif Shafak. NYT, 10/26/2022: Read Your Way Through Istanbul.
Molly Yong. NYT, 10/25/2022: The Essential Philip K. Dick.
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New Yorker book recommendations (for xmas gifts?):
New Yorker, 10/26/2022: The Best Books of 2022 So Far.
With links to most of the full book reviews published in the magazine, plus what I imagine are most of the In Brief weekly recommendations.
New Yorker, 10/26/2022: The Best Books of 2022 So Far.
With links to most of the full book reviews published in the magazine, plus what I imagine are most of the In Brief weekly recommendations.
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Gael Greene, 1933-2022, author of Insatiable: Tales from a Life of Delicious Excess:
William Grimes. NYT, 11/01/2022: Gael Greene, Who Shook Up Restaurant Reviewing, Dies at 88.
"In addition to her memoir, a jaw-dropper that detailed her affairs with Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, a famous porn star and several chefs, some of whose restaurants she reviewed, she wrote the guidebooks “Sex and the College Girl” (1964) and “Delicious Sex” (1986) and two erotic novels, “Blue Skies, No Candy” (1976) and “Dr. Love” (1982). Many of her early reviews and articles for New York were collected in “Bite: A New York Restaurant Strategy for Hedonists, Masochists, Selective Penny Pinchers and the Upwardly Mobile” (1971)."
Addendum:
Adam Platt. New York Magazine, 11/01/2022: Gael Greene Invented the Modern Restaurant Critic: With style, sex, and plenty of hats.
William Grimes. NYT, 11/01/2022: Gael Greene, Who Shook Up Restaurant Reviewing, Dies at 88.
"In addition to her memoir, a jaw-dropper that detailed her affairs with Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, a famous porn star and several chefs, some of whose restaurants she reviewed, she wrote the guidebooks “Sex and the College Girl” (1964) and “Delicious Sex” (1986) and two erotic novels, “Blue Skies, No Candy” (1976) and “Dr. Love” (1982). Many of her early reviews and articles for New York were collected in “Bite: A New York Restaurant Strategy for Hedonists, Masochists, Selective Penny Pinchers and the Upwardly Mobile” (1971)."
Addendum:
Adam Platt. New York Magazine, 11/01/2022: Gael Greene Invented the Modern Restaurant Critic: With style, sex, and plenty of hats.
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Thomas Cahill, 1940-2022, author of How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe & 'The Gifts of the Jews': How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels:
Clay Risen. NYT, 10/30/2022: Thomas Cahill, Popular Writer of Ireland’s History, Dies at 82.
Clay Risen. NYT, 10/30/2022: Thomas Cahill, Popular Writer of Ireland’s History, Dies at 82.
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NYT: "The government’s case blocked the merger of two of the United States’ largest publishers and reflected a more aggressive approach to curbing consolidation. It was closely watched by the publishing industry."
Alexandra Alter & Elizabeth A. Harris. NYT, 10/31/2022: Judge Blocks a Merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster.
Victoria Bisset. WaPo, 11/01/2022: Judge blocks Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster merger.
Alexandra Alter & Elizabeth A. Harris. NYT, 10/31/2022: Judge Blocks a Merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster.
Victoria Bisset. WaPo, 11/01/2022: Judge blocks Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster merger.
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Catching up on Los Angeles Review of Books:
Naomi Kanakia. 11/02/2022: The Dreariness of Book Club Discussions.
Eleanor J. Bader. 11/01/2022: The Silence About Menstruation: A Conversation with Rachel Kauder Nalebuff, author of Our Red Book: Intimate Histories of Periods, Growing & Changing
Jarrod Shanahan. 10/31/2022: Send More Cops. Review of: The Horror of Police / Travis Linnemann.
Naomi Kanakia. 11/02/2022: The Dreariness of Book Club Discussions.
Eleanor J. Bader. 11/01/2022: The Silence About Menstruation: A Conversation with Rachel Kauder Nalebuff, author of Our Red Book: Intimate Histories of Periods, Growing & Changing
Jarrod Shanahan. 10/31/2022: Send More Cops. Review of: The Horror of Police / Travis Linnemann.
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Sam Thielman. New Yorker, 11/01/2022: Hayao Miyazaki’s Beautiful, Broken Worlds. Review of the graphic novel Shuna's Journey.
Susan Napier. NYT, 11/02/2022: Hayao Miyazaki’s ‘Shuna’s Journey,’ Finally Translated Into English.
Susan Napier. NYT, 11/02/2022: Hayao Miyazaki’s ‘Shuna’s Journey,’ Finally Translated Into English.
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Dwight Garner. NYT, 10/31/2022: A New Biography of George Balanchine, Ballet’s Colossus. Review of MR. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century / Jennifer Homans.
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Ren Ellis Neyra, Juno Jill Richards, Dixa Ramirez-D'Oleo, & Marina Bilbija. Public Books, 11/02/2022: Reading "Lote." Review of Lote / Shola von Reinhold.
"The plot of Lote is too populated to be easily summarized. Instead, this forum draws out four different readings of the novel, in conversation with one another, as an extension of those first flurried text threads."
"The plot of Lote is too populated to be easily summarized. Instead, this forum draws out four different readings of the novel, in conversation with one another, as an extension of those first flurried text threads."
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Annette Simon. The Millions, 10/27/2022: The Unexpected Poetry of Book Spines. An excerpt from her Spine Poems: An Eclectic Collection of Found Verse for Book Lovers.
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TLS November 4, 2022|No. 6240
Literature:
André Aciman. Seize me if you can: A century on, Proust’s magnum opus retains its universal appeal. On À la recherche du temps perdu / Marcel Proust (Pleiade Edition)
Richard Lea. Containing multitudes: Returning to Adam Godley’s theory of everything. Review of: The Singularities / John Banville.
Isabelle Baafi. The words left out: Three American poets explore identity. Review of Essential June Jordan / June Jordan; edited by Jan Heller Levi and Christopher Keller; with a foreword by Jericho Brown -- Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems / Wanda Coleman; edited by Terrance Hayes -- Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems / Rita Dove.
David Gallagher. You say you want a revolution?: Grappling with art and ideology across three generations. Review of: Retrospective / Juan Gabriel Vásquez; translated by Anne McLean.
Madeleine Thien. Fear only the living: Love, violence and the tumult of China’s transformations. Review of Cocoon / Zhang Yueran; translated by Jeremy Tiang.
Pablo Scheffer. Pinochet’s children: Two novels capture Chile under the dictator. Review of The Twilight Zone / Nona Fernández; translated by Natasha Wimmer -- Space Invaders / Nona Fernández; translated by Natasha Wimmer.
André Naffis-Sahely. The fiya this time: Two anthologies of British Black and Asian poetry. Review of: More Fiya: A new collection of Black British poetry / Kayo Chingonyi, editor -- The Fire People: A collection of British Black and Asian poetry / Lemn Sissay, editor.
Margaret Drabble. Ghost writer: Robert Aickman: an unprepossessing master of the uncanny. Review of Robert Aickman: An attempted biography / R. B. Russell -- Go Back at Once / Robert Aickman.
Vanessa Nicolson. ‘I never loved her …’: Ben Nicolson on his mother, Vita Sackville-Wes. (Essay)
In Brief Review of Dinosaurs: a novel / Lydia Millet.
In Brief Review of A Horse at Night: On writing / Amina Cain.
Arts
Gill Partington. A cut and paste job: between poetry and visual art. Review of Humbert / Tom Phillips (online website)
Adam Mars-Jones. A life in retrospect: Kazuo Ishiguro’s British adaptation of a Japanese classic. Review of Living, a film with a screenplay by Kazuo Ishiguro, an adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's film Ikiru.
Philosophy
In Brief Review of A Philosophy of Lying / Lars Svendsen; Translated by Matt Bagguley.
Religion
Diarmaid MacCulloch. Kingdom of God: The making of Latin Christianity. Review of The Formation of Christendom: With a new preface by the author / Judith Herrin -- Christendom: The triumph of a religion / Peter Heather.
Julian Baggini. Wrestling with the Almighty: A Danish psychologist argues for a deity who is not a divine bully. Review of My Year with God / Svend Brinkmann; translated by Tam McTurk.
Environment
Ann Pettifor. On the move: Global warming and the inevitability of mass migration. Nomad Century: How to survive the climate upheaval / Gaia Vince -- The Children of the Anthropocene: Stories from the young people at the heart of the climate crisis / Bella Lack.
Politics & Society
Lucy Hughes-Hallett. Over the volcano: A city of secrets, sinkholes and surprises. Review of The Serpent Coiled in Naples / Marius Kociejowski.
Libby Purves. Pigs in the City: A cockney memoir. Review of Toffee Apples and Quail Feathers / Jennifer Worth.
Harold James. The lonely neoliberal: The role of Hayek’s personal life in his intellectual formation. Review of Hayek: A Life: 1899–1950 / Bruce Caldwell and Hansjoerg Klausinger.
Michele Pridmore-Brown. Conquering sociopaths: The troubled dreams of the gods of the digital universe. Review of Survival of the Richest: Escape fantasies of the tech billionaires / Douglas Rushkoff.
History
In Brief Review of Lost Realms: Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings / Thomas Williams.
Mary Beard. How to write about Roman emperors, virtuous and vile. (From her A Don's Life column)
Literature:
André Aciman. Seize me if you can: A century on, Proust’s magnum opus retains its universal appeal. On À la recherche du temps perdu / Marcel Proust (Pleiade Edition)
Richard Lea. Containing multitudes: Returning to Adam Godley’s theory of everything. Review of: The Singularities / John Banville.
Isabelle Baafi. The words left out: Three American poets explore identity. Review of Essential June Jordan / June Jordan; edited by Jan Heller Levi and Christopher Keller; with a foreword by Jericho Brown -- Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems / Wanda Coleman; edited by Terrance Hayes -- Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems / Rita Dove.
David Gallagher. You say you want a revolution?: Grappling with art and ideology across three generations. Review of: Retrospective / Juan Gabriel Vásquez; translated by Anne McLean.
Madeleine Thien. Fear only the living: Love, violence and the tumult of China’s transformations. Review of Cocoon / Zhang Yueran; translated by Jeremy Tiang.
Pablo Scheffer. Pinochet’s children: Two novels capture Chile under the dictator. Review of The Twilight Zone / Nona Fernández; translated by Natasha Wimmer -- Space Invaders / Nona Fernández; translated by Natasha Wimmer.
André Naffis-Sahely. The fiya this time: Two anthologies of British Black and Asian poetry. Review of: More Fiya: A new collection of Black British poetry / Kayo Chingonyi, editor -- The Fire People: A collection of British Black and Asian poetry / Lemn Sissay, editor.
Margaret Drabble. Ghost writer: Robert Aickman: an unprepossessing master of the uncanny. Review of Robert Aickman: An attempted biography / R. B. Russell -- Go Back at Once / Robert Aickman.
Vanessa Nicolson. ‘I never loved her …’: Ben Nicolson on his mother, Vita Sackville-Wes. (Essay)
In Brief Review of Dinosaurs: a novel / Lydia Millet.
In Brief Review of A Horse at Night: On writing / Amina Cain.
Arts
Gill Partington. A cut and paste job: between poetry and visual art. Review of Humbert / Tom Phillips (online website)
Adam Mars-Jones. A life in retrospect: Kazuo Ishiguro’s British adaptation of a Japanese classic. Review of Living, a film with a screenplay by Kazuo Ishiguro, an adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's film Ikiru.
Philosophy
In Brief Review of A Philosophy of Lying / Lars Svendsen; Translated by Matt Bagguley.
Religion
Diarmaid MacCulloch. Kingdom of God: The making of Latin Christianity. Review of The Formation of Christendom: With a new preface by the author / Judith Herrin -- Christendom: The triumph of a religion / Peter Heather.
Julian Baggini. Wrestling with the Almighty: A Danish psychologist argues for a deity who is not a divine bully. Review of My Year with God / Svend Brinkmann; translated by Tam McTurk.
Environment
Ann Pettifor. On the move: Global warming and the inevitability of mass migration. Nomad Century: How to survive the climate upheaval / Gaia Vince -- The Children of the Anthropocene: Stories from the young people at the heart of the climate crisis / Bella Lack.
Politics & Society
Lucy Hughes-Hallett. Over the volcano: A city of secrets, sinkholes and surprises. Review of The Serpent Coiled in Naples / Marius Kociejowski.
Libby Purves. Pigs in the City: A cockney memoir. Review of Toffee Apples and Quail Feathers / Jennifer Worth.
Harold James. The lonely neoliberal: The role of Hayek’s personal life in his intellectual formation. Review of Hayek: A Life: 1899–1950 / Bruce Caldwell and Hansjoerg Klausinger.
Michele Pridmore-Brown. Conquering sociopaths: The troubled dreams of the gods of the digital universe. Review of Survival of the Richest: Escape fantasies of the tech billionaires / Douglas Rushkoff.
History
In Brief Review of Lost Realms: Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings / Thomas Williams.
Mary Beard. How to write about Roman emperors, virtuous and vile. (From her A Don's Life column)
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Richard Stengel. NYT, 11/02/2022: It Can Happen Here: 8 Great Books to Read About the Decline of Democracy.
The books discussed are:
How Democracies Die / Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt.
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America / Timothy Snyder.
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism / Anne Applebaum.
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them / Jason Stanley.
Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present / Ruth Ben-Ghiat.
How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them / Barbara F. Walter.
The Next Civil War: Dispatches From the American Future / Stephen Marche.
The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure / Yascha Mounk.
Stengel is the author of Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do About It
The books discussed are:
How Democracies Die / Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt.
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America / Timothy Snyder.
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism / Anne Applebaum.
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them / Jason Stanley.
Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present / Ruth Ben-Ghiat.
How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them / Barbara F. Walter.
The Next Civil War: Dispatches From the American Future / Stephen Marche.
The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure / Yascha Mounk.
Stengel is the author of Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do About It
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New York Review of Books, 11/24/2022
Literature
Ruth Margalit. Village People. Review of: Salka Valka / Halldór Laxness, translated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton -- Independent People / Halldór Laxness, translated from the Icelandic by J. A. Thompson, with an introduction by John Freeman.
Mark O'Connell. Total Recall. Review of: The Immortal King Rao / Vauhini Vara -- The Candy House / Jennifer Egan.
Jenny Uglow. Hilary Mantel (1952–2022). (Essay)
Anahid Nersessian. A Vivisectional Style. Review of: Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne / Katherine Rundell.
Maya Jaggi. Resurrecting the Poets of Tbilisi. (Essay)
Lucy Sante. Models for Being. Review of: Stay True: A Memoir / Hua Hsu.
Arts
Jed Perl. Between Abstraction and Representation. (Essay)
Andrew Raftery. Clay Genius. Review of: The Radical Potter: The Life and Times of Josiah Wedgwood / Tristram Hunt.
Politics & Society
Alizeh Kohari. Pakistan Submerged. (Essay)
Christopher de Bellaigue. Khamenei’s Dilemma. (Essay)
Reginald Dwayne Betts and Serhiy Zhadan. Holding a Gun. "An exchange of letters between Reginald Dwayne Betts and Serhiy Zhadan, lyrical writers of the tough places they come from."
Adam Hochschild. The Cruelties of Empire. Review of: Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire / Caroline Elkins -- In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism / J. P. Daughton.
David Cole. Originalism’s Charade. Review of: Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism / Erwin Chemerinsky -- Constructing Basic Liberties: A Defense of Substantive Due Process / James E. Fleming.
Cass R. Sunstein. Accounting for the Human Cost. Review of: The Tragic Science: How Economists Cause Harm (Even as They Aspire to Do Good) / George F. DeMartino.
Darryl Pinckney. Georgia’s Battle Over the Ballot. (Essay)
Sara Lipton. The Jewish Authenticity Trap. Review of: People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present / Dara Horn.
Literature
Ruth Margalit. Village People. Review of: Salka Valka / Halldór Laxness, translated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton -- Independent People / Halldór Laxness, translated from the Icelandic by J. A. Thompson, with an introduction by John Freeman.
Mark O'Connell. Total Recall. Review of: The Immortal King Rao / Vauhini Vara -- The Candy House / Jennifer Egan.
Jenny Uglow. Hilary Mantel (1952–2022). (Essay)
Anahid Nersessian. A Vivisectional Style. Review of: Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne / Katherine Rundell.
Maya Jaggi. Resurrecting the Poets of Tbilisi. (Essay)
Lucy Sante. Models for Being. Review of: Stay True: A Memoir / Hua Hsu.
Arts
Jed Perl. Between Abstraction and Representation. (Essay)
Andrew Raftery. Clay Genius. Review of: The Radical Potter: The Life and Times of Josiah Wedgwood / Tristram Hunt.
Politics & Society
Alizeh Kohari. Pakistan Submerged. (Essay)
Christopher de Bellaigue. Khamenei’s Dilemma. (Essay)
Reginald Dwayne Betts and Serhiy Zhadan. Holding a Gun. "An exchange of letters between Reginald Dwayne Betts and Serhiy Zhadan, lyrical writers of the tough places they come from."
Adam Hochschild. The Cruelties of Empire. Review of: Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire / Caroline Elkins -- In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism / J. P. Daughton.
David Cole. Originalism’s Charade. Review of: Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism / Erwin Chemerinsky -- Constructing Basic Liberties: A Defense of Substantive Due Process / James E. Fleming.
Cass R. Sunstein. Accounting for the Human Cost. Review of: The Tragic Science: How Economists Cause Harm (Even as They Aspire to Do Good) / George F. DeMartino.
Darryl Pinckney. Georgia’s Battle Over the Ballot. (Essay)
Sara Lipton. The Jewish Authenticity Trap. Review of: People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present / Dara Horn.
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Elizabeth A. Harris & Alexandra Alter. NYT, 11/01/2022: A Big Publishing Merger Was Blocked, but Brought the Industry Little Clarity.
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"The acclaimed documentarian has assembled a book called Our America: A Photographic History which contains some of his favorite photographs of the US and the people within it. ‘I’ve needed 45 years of telling stories in American history, of diving deep into lives and moments, places and huge events, to accrue the visual vocabulary to embark on this book,’ he said"
The Guardian, 11/04/2022: Ken Burns History of America in Pictures.
The Guardian, 11/04/2022: Ken Burns History of America in Pictures.
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David Treuer. New Yorker, 11/14/2022: Do We Have the History of Native Americans Backward? Review of: Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America / Pekka Hämäläinen.
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TLS November 11, 2022|No. 6241
Literature & Bibliography
Carolyne Larrington. Saved by books: ‘Eng Lit’ memoirs by three illustrious critics. Review of: Mad About Shakespeare: From classroom to theatre to emergency room / Jonathan Bate -- Fierce Appetites: Loving, losing and living to excess in my present and in the writings of the past / Elizabeth Boyle -- Love and the Novel: Life after reading / Christina Lipton.
James Waddell. Manuscript men: A group biography of book collectors across time. Review of: The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club / Christopher De Hamel.
In Brief Review of: Once Upon a Tome: The misadventures of a rare bookseller / Oliver Darkshire.
Askold Melnyczuk. Frailty, thy name is man: A prophetic environmentalist play by a giant of Ukrainian literature. Review of: The Song of the Forest / Lesia Ukrainka, translated by Patrick John Corness.
Clare Cavanagh. Mad shadows barge in: Poems and prose by a Russian émigré writer. Review of: Air Raid / Polina Barskova, translated by Valzhyna Mort -- Living Pictures / Polina Barskova, translated by Catherine Ciepiela.
In Brief Review of: Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai / Matti Friedman.
In Brief Review of: Le style réactionnaire: De Maurras à Houellebecq / Vincent Berthelier.
In Brief Review of: Gone But Not Forgotten: My favourite flops and other projects that came to nothing / Hans Magnus Enzensberger, translated by Mike Mitchell.
Arts
Guy Dammann. Massacre of the innocents: A masterpiece of modern ‘spectral music’. Review of the opera Innocence by Kaija Saariaho, performed at the Finnish National Opera, Helsinki, until November 24; Royal Opera House, London, April 17 to May 4, 2023.
Politics, History, & Society
Peter Thonemann. Not quite Cambridge: Why Academia today would frown on the Father of History. Review of: Herodotus: Histories Book I / Carolyn Dewald and Rosaria Vignolo Munson, editors, and Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, imitation, reception / N. Bryant Kirkland.
Amber Medland. Cream drunk from the bowl: A cook casts aside puritanism and rejoices in the recipe. Review of: Small Fires: An epic in the kitchen / Rebecca May Johnson.
Houman Barekat. Spot the ball: 150 years of hurt, and one high, for English football. Review of: England Football: The biography 1872-2022 / Paul Hayward.
Anna Reid. His biggest role: The improbable rise of Volodymyr Zelensky. Review of: The Zelensky Effect / Olga Onuch and Henry E. Hale -- Zelensky: Ukraine’s president and his country / Steven Derix with Marina Shelkunova; translated by Brent Annable -- The Fight of Our Lives: My time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s battle for democracy, and what it means for the world / Iuliia Mendel; translated by Madeline G. Levine -- Zelensky: A Biography / Serhii Rudenko, translated by Michael M. Naydan and Alla Perminova.
Linah Alsaafin. World Cup winner: Soaring inequalities – and human stories – in a ‘petrochemical boom town’ Review of: Inside Qatar: Hidden stories from one of the richest nations on Earth / John McManus.
Patrick Wilcken. The strongman syndrome: Lula may have won, but Brazil remains deeply divided. Review of: Brazilian Authoritarianism: Past and present / Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, translated by Eric M. B. Becker.
Josh Cohen. Freud on the couch: Puzzles and enigmas in the life of psychology’s founder. Review of: Freud's Patients: A book of lives / Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen -- Sigmund Freud (Critical Lives) / Matt Ffytche -- Saving Freud: A life in Vienna and an escape to freedom in London / Andrew Nagorski.
In Brief Review of: Evangelicalism: A very short introduction / John G. Stackhouse Jr.
In Brief Review of: A Chivalric Life: The book of the deeds of Messire Jacques de Lalaing / Translated and edited by Rosalind Brown-Grant and Mario Damen.
Literature & Bibliography
Carolyne Larrington. Saved by books: ‘Eng Lit’ memoirs by three illustrious critics. Review of: Mad About Shakespeare: From classroom to theatre to emergency room / Jonathan Bate -- Fierce Appetites: Loving, losing and living to excess in my present and in the writings of the past / Elizabeth Boyle -- Love and the Novel: Life after reading / Christina Lipton.
James Waddell. Manuscript men: A group biography of book collectors across time. Review of: The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club / Christopher De Hamel.
In Brief Review of: Once Upon a Tome: The misadventures of a rare bookseller / Oliver Darkshire.
Askold Melnyczuk. Frailty, thy name is man: A prophetic environmentalist play by a giant of Ukrainian literature. Review of: The Song of the Forest / Lesia Ukrainka, translated by Patrick John Corness.
Clare Cavanagh. Mad shadows barge in: Poems and prose by a Russian émigré writer. Review of: Air Raid / Polina Barskova, translated by Valzhyna Mort -- Living Pictures / Polina Barskova, translated by Catherine Ciepiela.
In Brief Review of: Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai / Matti Friedman.
In Brief Review of: Le style réactionnaire: De Maurras à Houellebecq / Vincent Berthelier.
In Brief Review of: Gone But Not Forgotten: My favourite flops and other projects that came to nothing / Hans Magnus Enzensberger, translated by Mike Mitchell.
Arts
Guy Dammann. Massacre of the innocents: A masterpiece of modern ‘spectral music’. Review of the opera Innocence by Kaija Saariaho, performed at the Finnish National Opera, Helsinki, until November 24; Royal Opera House, London, April 17 to May 4, 2023.
Politics, History, & Society
Peter Thonemann. Not quite Cambridge: Why Academia today would frown on the Father of History. Review of: Herodotus: Histories Book I / Carolyn Dewald and Rosaria Vignolo Munson, editors, and Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, imitation, reception / N. Bryant Kirkland.
Amber Medland. Cream drunk from the bowl: A cook casts aside puritanism and rejoices in the recipe. Review of: Small Fires: An epic in the kitchen / Rebecca May Johnson.
Houman Barekat. Spot the ball: 150 years of hurt, and one high, for English football. Review of: England Football: The biography 1872-2022 / Paul Hayward.
Anna Reid. His biggest role: The improbable rise of Volodymyr Zelensky. Review of: The Zelensky Effect / Olga Onuch and Henry E. Hale -- Zelensky: Ukraine’s president and his country / Steven Derix with Marina Shelkunova; translated by Brent Annable -- The Fight of Our Lives: My time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s battle for democracy, and what it means for the world / Iuliia Mendel; translated by Madeline G. Levine -- Zelensky: A Biography / Serhii Rudenko, translated by Michael M. Naydan and Alla Perminova.
Linah Alsaafin. World Cup winner: Soaring inequalities – and human stories – in a ‘petrochemical boom town’ Review of: Inside Qatar: Hidden stories from one of the richest nations on Earth / John McManus.
Patrick Wilcken. The strongman syndrome: Lula may have won, but Brazil remains deeply divided. Review of: Brazilian Authoritarianism: Past and present / Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, translated by Eric M. B. Becker.
Josh Cohen. Freud on the couch: Puzzles and enigmas in the life of psychology’s founder. Review of: Freud's Patients: A book of lives / Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen -- Sigmund Freud (Critical Lives) / Matt Ffytche -- Saving Freud: A life in Vienna and an escape to freedom in London / Andrew Nagorski.
In Brief Review of: Evangelicalism: A very short introduction / John G. Stackhouse Jr.
In Brief Review of: A Chivalric Life: The book of the deeds of Messire Jacques de Lalaing / Translated and edited by Rosalind Brown-Grant and Mario Damen.
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Ella Fox-Martens. The Baffler, 11/10/2022: Dream of a Past: H.D.’s writing and rewriting of herself. Review of: HERmione by H.D.
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In one of the books I'm reading, The Loneliest Americans, the author, Jay Caspian Kang, acknowledges as an influence Noel Ignatiev, author of How the Irish Became White & the posthumous collection Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity. Coincidentally, two recent articles on Ignatiev:
Mike King. Boston Review, 10/26/2022: How to Be a Race Traitor.
Dylan Davis & Patrick King. LARB, 10/09/2022: Unexpected Sledgehammer: Noel Ignatiev’s Communist Education. In addition to the Treason to Whiteness collection, the authors also discuss Ignatiev's memoir: Acceptable Men: Life in the World’s Largest Steel Mill.
Mike King. Boston Review, 10/26/2022: How to Be a Race Traitor.
Dylan Davis & Patrick King. LARB, 10/09/2022: Unexpected Sledgehammer: Noel Ignatiev’s Communist Education. In addition to the Treason to Whiteness collection, the authors also discuss Ignatiev's memoir: Acceptable Men: Life in the World’s Largest Steel Mill.
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Daniel Mendelsohn. New Yorker, 11/07/2022: Should Ovid’s Metamorphoses Have a Trigger Warning?
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"Whatever the literary strengths of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the book has done much to harm both the mentally ill and their communities."
Stephen Eide. Quillette, 11/14/2022: Ken Kesey and the Rush to Deinstitutionalization.
Stephen Eide. Quillette, 11/14/2022: Ken Kesey and the Rush to Deinstitutionalization.
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Hannah Gold. The Baffler, 11/14/2022: Goodbye to All That: The afterlives of Joan Didion’s possessions.
See also:
Roxanna Robinson. New Yorker, 11/16/2022: Joan Didion’s Priceless Sunglasses.
Still more:
Erin Somers. New York, 11/18/2022: Excess and Earnestness at Joan Didion’s Estate Sale.
See also:
Roxanna Robinson. New Yorker, 11/16/2022: Joan Didion’s Priceless Sunglasses.
Still more:
Erin Somers. New York, 11/18/2022: Excess and Earnestness at Joan Didion’s Estate Sale.
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Recent articles from LARB:
Jimin Kang. 11/14/2022: A Third Space. Review of: The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir / Karen Cheung.
Kevin Hart. 11/13/2022: Containment, Reform, and Abuse. Review of: Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis / John T. McGreevy.
John Dupré. Managing Nature: On Recent Books About Conservation and Genetic Modification. Review of: Porkopolis: American Animality, Standardized Life, & the Factory Farm / Alex Blanchette -- Our Transgenic Future: Spider Goats, Genetic Modification, and the Will to Change Nature / Lisa Jean Moore -- Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration / Laura J. Martin -- Strange Natures: Conservation in the Era of Synthetic Biology / Kent H. Redford.
Billy J. Stratton. They Do Not Come in Peace. Review of: Terra Nullius / Claire G. Coleman.
Jimin Kang. 11/14/2022: A Third Space. Review of: The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir / Karen Cheung.
Kevin Hart. 11/13/2022: Containment, Reform, and Abuse. Review of: Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis / John T. McGreevy.
John Dupré. Managing Nature: On Recent Books About Conservation and Genetic Modification. Review of: Porkopolis: American Animality, Standardized Life, & the Factory Farm / Alex Blanchette -- Our Transgenic Future: Spider Goats, Genetic Modification, and the Will to Change Nature / Lisa Jean Moore -- Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration / Laura J. Martin -- Strange Natures: Conservation in the Era of Synthetic Biology / Kent H. Redford.
Billy J. Stratton. They Do Not Come in Peace. Review of: Terra Nullius / Claire G. Coleman.
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Jason Guriel. Longreads, 11/10/2022: I Remember the Bookstore.
Josha Miller. Longreads, 10/20/222 Anatomy of the Mask: A Reading List on Superhero Comics.
Josha Miller. Longreads, 10/20/222 Anatomy of the Mask: A Reading List on Superhero Comics.
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TLS November 18, 2022|No. 6242
Books of the Year 2022
Literature
Javier Marias. My terror and pleasure: The last column written by Javier Marías, who died on September 11.
Dinah Birch. Our being your equals: Eight women writers who challenge the male canon. Review of: Eve Bites Back: An alternative history of English literature / Anna Beer.
Nat Segnit. Brain-dump fiction: An overlong paean to the alternative family falls flat. Review of: The Last Chairlift / John Irving.
Katrin Kohl. Elegy for the Cold War: The secret policemen who met monthly to share their poems. Review of: The Stasi Poetry Circle: The creative writing class that tried to win the Cold War / Philip Oltermann.
Costica Bradatan. Censor’s sensibility: A gravely funny bowdlerizer’s tale. Review of: The Censor's Notebook / Liliana Corobca; translated by Monica Cure.
In Brief Review of: Women in Wartime: Theatrical representations in the long eighteenth century / Paula R. Backscheider.
In Brief Review of: The Borges Enigma: Mirrors, doubles and intimate puzzles / Cynthia Lucy Stephens.
In Brief Review of: Pyre / Perumal Murugan; translated by Aniruddhan Vasudevan.
Arts
Colin Grant. Got to keep those good vibraniums: Marvel’s follow-up to the successful Black Panther. Review of of the movie Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
Philosophy
Kieran Setiya. The line of beauty: Why we’re glad to be alive. Review of: This Beauty: A philosophy of being alive / Nick Riggle -- Beauty: A quick immersion / Crispin Sartwell.
Science & Technology
Julia Clarke. Humanity’s kith and kin: Humans make up just 7 million years of rich mammal. Review of: The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A new history, from the shadow of the dinosaurs to us / Steve Brusatte.
History, Politics, & Society
David Armitage. Keeping it in the family: The ties that bind world history. Review of: The World: A Family History / Simon Sebag Montefiore.
Irina Dumitrescu. Excellent women: Female agency in the medieval world. Review of: Femina: A new history of the Middle Ages, through the women written out of it / Janina Ramirez.
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough. Winter the invading warrior
The spiritual and agricultural cycles were blurred in Anglo-Saxon England. Review of: Winters in the World: A journey through the Anglo-Saxon year / Eleanor Parker.
Regina Rini. Trust, but verify: Accepting vulnerability in the Musk era. (Essay on Twitter & Elon Musk)
Russell Williams. Danse macabre: The French novelist Emmanuel Carrère watches a terror trial. Review of: V13 / Emmanuel Carrère.
Edward Platt. Living lightly: The contributions nomads have made to civilization. Review of: Nomads: The wanderers who shaped our world / Anthony Sattin -- Walking with Nomads / Alice Morrison.
Robert Irwin. Barefoot in the forests: A memoir of life on the move. Review of: The Amulet: My childhood and youth as a nomad in Sudan / Hamid Dirar.
Ferdinand Mount. ‘Be there. Will be wild’: The base, the coup, the counter – and what we might expect from a second Trump term. Review of: American Resistance: The inside story of how the Deep State saved the nation / David Rothkopf -- The Storm Is Here: America on the brink / Luke Mogelson.
In Brief Review of: Mixing Medicines: The global drug trade and early modern Russia / Clare Griffin.
In Brief Review of: My Family and Other Enemies: Life and travels in Croatia’s hinterland / Mary Novakovich.
In Brief Review of: A Heart That Works / Rob Delaney. "Delaney tells the story of his son Henry, who was diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumour at the age of eleven months. Henry underwent extensive surgery and chemotherapy, but died in 2018, aged two and a half. While Catastrophe was being made, Henry was dying."
Books of the Year 2022
Literature
Javier Marias. My terror and pleasure: The last column written by Javier Marías, who died on September 11.
Dinah Birch. Our being your equals: Eight women writers who challenge the male canon. Review of: Eve Bites Back: An alternative history of English literature / Anna Beer.
Nat Segnit. Brain-dump fiction: An overlong paean to the alternative family falls flat. Review of: The Last Chairlift / John Irving.
Katrin Kohl. Elegy for the Cold War: The secret policemen who met monthly to share their poems. Review of: The Stasi Poetry Circle: The creative writing class that tried to win the Cold War / Philip Oltermann.
Costica Bradatan. Censor’s sensibility: A gravely funny bowdlerizer’s tale. Review of: The Censor's Notebook / Liliana Corobca; translated by Monica Cure.
In Brief Review of: Women in Wartime: Theatrical representations in the long eighteenth century / Paula R. Backscheider.
In Brief Review of: The Borges Enigma: Mirrors, doubles and intimate puzzles / Cynthia Lucy Stephens.
In Brief Review of: Pyre / Perumal Murugan; translated by Aniruddhan Vasudevan.
Arts
Colin Grant. Got to keep those good vibraniums: Marvel’s follow-up to the successful Black Panther. Review of of the movie Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
Philosophy
Kieran Setiya. The line of beauty: Why we’re glad to be alive. Review of: This Beauty: A philosophy of being alive / Nick Riggle -- Beauty: A quick immersion / Crispin Sartwell.
Science & Technology
Julia Clarke. Humanity’s kith and kin: Humans make up just 7 million years of rich mammal. Review of: The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A new history, from the shadow of the dinosaurs to us / Steve Brusatte.
History, Politics, & Society
David Armitage. Keeping it in the family: The ties that bind world history. Review of: The World: A Family History / Simon Sebag Montefiore.
Irina Dumitrescu. Excellent women: Female agency in the medieval world. Review of: Femina: A new history of the Middle Ages, through the women written out of it / Janina Ramirez.
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough. Winter the invading warrior
The spiritual and agricultural cycles were blurred in Anglo-Saxon England. Review of: Winters in the World: A journey through the Anglo-Saxon year / Eleanor Parker.
Regina Rini. Trust, but verify: Accepting vulnerability in the Musk era. (Essay on Twitter & Elon Musk)
Russell Williams. Danse macabre: The French novelist Emmanuel Carrère watches a terror trial. Review of: V13 / Emmanuel Carrère.
Edward Platt. Living lightly: The contributions nomads have made to civilization. Review of: Nomads: The wanderers who shaped our world / Anthony Sattin -- Walking with Nomads / Alice Morrison.
Robert Irwin. Barefoot in the forests: A memoir of life on the move. Review of: The Amulet: My childhood and youth as a nomad in Sudan / Hamid Dirar.
Ferdinand Mount. ‘Be there. Will be wild’: The base, the coup, the counter – and what we might expect from a second Trump term. Review of: American Resistance: The inside story of how the Deep State saved the nation / David Rothkopf -- The Storm Is Here: America on the brink / Luke Mogelson.
In Brief Review of: Mixing Medicines: The global drug trade and early modern Russia / Clare Griffin.
In Brief Review of: My Family and Other Enemies: Life and travels in Croatia’s hinterland / Mary Novakovich.
In Brief Review of: A Heart That Works / Rob Delaney. "Delaney tells the story of his son Henry, who was diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumour at the age of eleven months. Henry underwent extensive surgery and chemotherapy, but died in 2018, aged two and a half. While Catastrophe was being made, Henry was dying."
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Clay Risen. NYT, 11/17/2022: Michael J. Gerson, Presidential Speechwriter and Columnist, Dies at 58.
Peter Wehner. The Atlantic, 11/18/2022: My Friend, Mike Gerson.
Peter Wehner. The Atlantic, 11/18/2022: My Friend, Mike Gerson.
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Pace the headline, The Times is reporting the National Book Award Winners.
Elizabeth A. Harris. Imani Perry Wins National Book Award for ‘South to America.
Non-fiction: Imani Perry for South to America
Fiction: Tess Gunty for The Rabbit Hutch
Poetry: John Keene for Punks: New and Selected Poems
Young People's Literature: Sabaa Tahir for All My Rage
Translated literature: Samantha Schweblin (translator Megan McDowell) for Seven Empty Houses
The Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters was awarded to Art Spiegelman, author of Maus, banned this year in Tennessee for containing swear words.
Elizabeth A. Harris. Imani Perry Wins National Book Award for ‘South to America.
Non-fiction: Imani Perry for South to America
Fiction: Tess Gunty for The Rabbit Hutch
Poetry: John Keene for Punks: New and Selected Poems
Young People's Literature: Sabaa Tahir for All My Rage
Translated literature: Samantha Schweblin (translator Megan McDowell) for Seven Empty Houses
The Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters was awarded to Art Spiegelman, author of Maus, banned this year in Tennessee for containing swear words.
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Nan Z. Da. Public Books, 11/16/2022: Into the Woods with Yiyun Li. Review of: The Book of Goose / Yiyun Li.
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Another NY Times disappointing headline for an amusing short interview with the novelist Haruki Murakami. Hopefully will put to bed the cringey dinner party question regularly invoked by the feature.
11/20/2022: What Books Does Haruki Murakami Find Disappointing? His Own.
Plus, no interviewer supplied; discovered online 11/17, but may have appeared earlier. Translator is Philip Gabriel, responsible for crafting the following deadpan concluding sentence: "Personally, I like Mieko Kawakami’s novel “Natsu Monogatari” (“Summer Tales”). She has such sensitivity as a writer and is a deeply committed storyteller. This novel was translated and published in English in 2020 under the title “Breasts and Eggs.”"
11/20/2022: What Books Does Haruki Murakami Find Disappointing? His Own.
Plus, no interviewer supplied; discovered online 11/17, but may have appeared earlier. Translator is Philip Gabriel, responsible for crafting the following deadpan concluding sentence: "Personally, I like Mieko Kawakami’s novel “Natsu Monogatari” (“Summer Tales”). She has such sensitivity as a writer and is a deeply committed storyteller. This novel was translated and published in English in 2020 under the title “Breasts and Eggs.”"
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"On the eve of a major revival of her work, this is the story of how she came to see a future that is now our present."
Lynell Butler, visuals Ainslee Elem Robson. NYT, 11/17/2022: The Visions of Octavia Butler.
And also:
E. Alex Jung. New York/Vulture, 11/21/2022: The Spectacular Life of Octavia Butler.
Andrea Long Chu. New York/Vulture, 11/21/2022: Misreading Octavia Butler.
Hanif Abdurraquib. New York/Vulture, 11/21/2022: The Butler Journal Entry I Always Return To.
As told to Mary Retta. New York/Vulture, 11/21/2022: Octavia E. Butler Writing Lessons. "A few artists on how the author’s work has inspired them."
Lynell Butler, visuals Ainslee Elem Robson. NYT, 11/17/2022: The Visions of Octavia Butler.
And also:
E. Alex Jung. New York/Vulture, 11/21/2022: The Spectacular Life of Octavia Butler.
Andrea Long Chu. New York/Vulture, 11/21/2022: Misreading Octavia Butler.
Hanif Abdurraquib. New York/Vulture, 11/21/2022: The Butler Journal Entry I Always Return To.
As told to Mary Retta. New York/Vulture, 11/21/2022: Octavia E. Butler Writing Lessons. "A few artists on how the author’s work has inspired them."
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Michael Dirda. WaPo, 11/17/2022: Why read old books? A case for the classic, the unusual, the neglected.
74featherbear
Daniela Blei. LARB, 11/16/2022: Going Coastal: On Some Recent Books About the Ecology and History of Beaches. Review of: The Lure of the Beach: A Global History / Robert Ritchie -- Shipwrecked: Coastal Disasters and the Making of the American Beach / Jamin Wells -- The Foghorn’s Lament: The Disappearing Music of the Coast / Jennifer Lucy Allan -- The Last Resort: A Chronicle of Paradise, Profit, and Peril at the Beach / Sarah Stodola -- The Coasts of California: A California Field Atlas / Obi Kaufmann.
75featherbear
Margaret Talbot. New Yorker, 11/14/2022: J. Edgar Hoover, Public Enemy No. 1. Review of: G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century / Beverly Gage.
76featherbear
The Dec. 8 2022 issue of New York Review of Books:
Literature
Audrey Wollen. The Circuitous Sublime. Review of: Sweet Days of Discipline / Fleur Jaeggy, translated from the Italian by Tim Parks -- The Water Statues / Fleur Jaeggy, translated from the Italian by Gini Alhadeff -- I Am the Brother of XX / Fleur Jaeggy, translated from the Italian by Gini Alhadeff.
Dan Chiasson. Road Maps for the Soul. Review of: The Philosophy of Modern Song / Bob Dylan.
Edward Mendelson. Life, Death, This Moment of June. Review of: Mrs. Dalloway / Virginia Woolf, edited by Ann E. Fernald -- The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway / Virginia Woolf, edited by Merve Emre.
Regina Marler. Uncommon Women. Review of: Natural History / Andrea Barrett.
Arts
David Salle. Who Am I? What Am I? Review of: Charles Ray: Figure Ground Catalog of the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, January 31–June 5, 2022, by Kelly Baum and Brinda Kumar, with contributions by Charles Ray and Hal Foster, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Mike Jay. The Melancholy of Anatomy. Review of: Frederik Ruysch and His Thesaurus Anatomicus: A Morbid Guide / edited by Joanna Ebenstein.
Philosophy
Fara Dabhoiwala. Becoming Amartya Sen. Review of: Home in the World / Amartya Sen.
Martha C. Nussbaum. A Peopled Wilderness. Essay: "We must find new ways to act toward animals in a world dominated everywhere by human power and activity."
Corey Robin. Empathy & the Economy. Review of: Being Me Being You: Adam Smith and Empathy / Samuel Fleischacker.
Politics & Society
Peter Canby. The Death Squad Dossier. Essay: "Decades after Guatemala’s long civil war, a chronicle of government kidnapping and disappearance is bringing former officials to trial. Will there be justice for the victim."
Lynn Hunt. ‘A Great Democratic Revolution’. Review of: The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville / Olivier Zunz.
Ada Wordsworth. Ukrainian Lessons at the Train Station. Essay: "A diverse community of volunteers has gathered on the Polish border to assist Ukrainian refugees, but the outlook for Ukrainian refugees already in Europe is often bleak."
Literature
Audrey Wollen. The Circuitous Sublime. Review of: Sweet Days of Discipline / Fleur Jaeggy, translated from the Italian by Tim Parks -- The Water Statues / Fleur Jaeggy, translated from the Italian by Gini Alhadeff -- I Am the Brother of XX / Fleur Jaeggy, translated from the Italian by Gini Alhadeff.
Dan Chiasson. Road Maps for the Soul. Review of: The Philosophy of Modern Song / Bob Dylan.
Edward Mendelson. Life, Death, This Moment of June. Review of: Mrs. Dalloway / Virginia Woolf, edited by Ann E. Fernald -- The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway / Virginia Woolf, edited by Merve Emre.
Regina Marler. Uncommon Women. Review of: Natural History / Andrea Barrett.
Arts
David Salle. Who Am I? What Am I? Review of: Charles Ray: Figure Ground Catalog of the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, January 31–June 5, 2022, by Kelly Baum and Brinda Kumar, with contributions by Charles Ray and Hal Foster, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Mike Jay. The Melancholy of Anatomy. Review of: Frederik Ruysch and His Thesaurus Anatomicus: A Morbid Guide / edited by Joanna Ebenstein.
Philosophy
Fara Dabhoiwala. Becoming Amartya Sen. Review of: Home in the World / Amartya Sen.
Martha C. Nussbaum. A Peopled Wilderness. Essay: "We must find new ways to act toward animals in a world dominated everywhere by human power and activity."
Corey Robin. Empathy & the Economy. Review of: Being Me Being You: Adam Smith and Empathy / Samuel Fleischacker.
Politics & Society
Peter Canby. The Death Squad Dossier. Essay: "Decades after Guatemala’s long civil war, a chronicle of government kidnapping and disappearance is bringing former officials to trial. Will there be justice for the victim."
Lynn Hunt. ‘A Great Democratic Revolution’. Review of: The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville / Olivier Zunz.
Ada Wordsworth. Ukrainian Lessons at the Train Station. Essay: "A diverse community of volunteers has gathered on the Polish border to assist Ukrainian refugees, but the outlook for Ukrainian refugees already in Europe is often bleak."
77featherbear
"László Krasznahorkai’s latest novel reflects on the power of the surveillance state through the perspective of a librarian who wishes to lock up all books."
Tadhg Larabee. Boston Review, 11/17/2022: Archive Fever. Review of: Spadework for a Palace / László Krasznahorkai, trans. John Batki.
Tadhg Larabee. Boston Review, 11/17/2022: Archive Fever. Review of: Spadework for a Palace / László Krasznahorkai, trans. John Batki.
78featherbear
Daniel Lewis. NYT 11/18/2022: Ned Rorem, Composer Known for Both His Music and His Diaries, Dies at 99.
79featherbear
Overlooked Grumbach obit when it came out. Thought I'd scan through the NYT section & do a belated catch-up on other authors & writers:
Robert D. McFadden. NYT, 11/05/2022: Doris Grumbach, Author Who Explored Women’s Plight, Dies at 104.
Clay Risen. 11/18/2022: Staughton Lynd, Historian and Activist Turned Labor Lawyer, Dies at 92.
Sam Roberts. 11/16/2022. Henry Rosovsky, 95, Builder of Black and Jewish Studies at Harvard, Dies.
Clay Risen. 11/04/2022. Katherine Duncan-Jones, Who Cast Shakespeare as a Boor, Dies at 81. Her book: Ungentle Shakespeare: Scenes from his Life, re-released as: Shakespeare: An Ungentle Life.
Penelope Green. 11/04/2022: Rebecca Godfrey, 54, Dies; Author Found Humanity in Teenage Violence. She authored: Under the Bridge (non-fiction about the murder of a 14 year old girl) and a novel The Torn Skirt.
Kim Severson & Julia Moskin. 11/01/2022, updated 11/03: Julie Powell, Food Writer Known for ‘Julie & Julia,’ Dies at 49.
Sam Roberts. 10/30/2022: Msgr. John Meier, Who Searched for ‘Historical Jesus,’ Dies at 80. Author of the series: A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus.
Neil Genzlinger. 10/29/2022. Gerald Stern, Poet of Wistfulness, Anger and Humor, Dies at 97. Author of: This Time: New and Selected Poems, winner of the 1998 National Book Award, and Lucky Life, among others.
Penelope Green. 10/29/2022: Carmen Callil, Founder of the Feminist Press Virago, Dies at 84.
Richard Sandomir. 10/27/2022: John Jay Osborn Jr., Author of ‘The Paper Chase,’ Dies at 77. The Paper Chase became a movie & TV series.
Clay Risen. 10/12/2022: Bruno Latour, 75, Philosopher on the Social Basis of Scientific Facts, Dies. Author of Laboratory Life: The Social Construction of Scientific Facts -- The Pasteurization of France. "Beginning with a 2004 article in the journal Critical Inquiry, he raised the concern that the critical methods and perspectives that he and other philosophers had applied to truth claims in the 1980s and ’90s had been hijacked and perverted by climate change deniers and conspiracy theorists."
Robert D. McFadden. NYT, 11/05/2022: Doris Grumbach, Author Who Explored Women’s Plight, Dies at 104.
Clay Risen. 11/18/2022: Staughton Lynd, Historian and Activist Turned Labor Lawyer, Dies at 92.
Sam Roberts. 11/16/2022. Henry Rosovsky, 95, Builder of Black and Jewish Studies at Harvard, Dies.
Clay Risen. 11/04/2022. Katherine Duncan-Jones, Who Cast Shakespeare as a Boor, Dies at 81. Her book: Ungentle Shakespeare: Scenes from his Life, re-released as: Shakespeare: An Ungentle Life.
Penelope Green. 11/04/2022: Rebecca Godfrey, 54, Dies; Author Found Humanity in Teenage Violence. She authored: Under the Bridge (non-fiction about the murder of a 14 year old girl) and a novel The Torn Skirt.
Kim Severson & Julia Moskin. 11/01/2022, updated 11/03: Julie Powell, Food Writer Known for ‘Julie & Julia,’ Dies at 49.
Sam Roberts. 10/30/2022: Msgr. John Meier, Who Searched for ‘Historical Jesus,’ Dies at 80. Author of the series: A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus.
Neil Genzlinger. 10/29/2022. Gerald Stern, Poet of Wistfulness, Anger and Humor, Dies at 97. Author of: This Time: New and Selected Poems, winner of the 1998 National Book Award, and Lucky Life, among others.
Penelope Green. 10/29/2022: Carmen Callil, Founder of the Feminist Press Virago, Dies at 84.
Richard Sandomir. 10/27/2022: John Jay Osborn Jr., Author of ‘The Paper Chase,’ Dies at 77. The Paper Chase became a movie & TV series.
Clay Risen. 10/12/2022: Bruno Latour, 75, Philosopher on the Social Basis of Scientific Facts, Dies. Author of Laboratory Life: The Social Construction of Scientific Facts -- The Pasteurization of France. "Beginning with a 2004 article in the journal Critical Inquiry, he raised the concern that the critical methods and perspectives that he and other philosophers had applied to truth claims in the 1980s and ’90s had been hijacked and perverted by climate change deniers and conspiracy theorists."
80featherbear
See also >41 featherbear:
Elizabeth Winkler. New Yorker, 11/19/2022: The Struggle to Unearth the World’s First Author.
Elizabeth Winkler. New Yorker, 11/19/2022: The Struggle to Unearth the World’s First Author.
81featherbear
Via Twitter & Astrid Bear:
Greg Bear, 08/20/1951-11/19/2022
Alan Boyle. Geekwire, 11/20/2022: Greg Bear, 1951-2022: Best-selling writer influenced sci-fi world, on and off the page.
Molly Templeton. tor.com, 11/21/2022: Greg Bear, 1951-2022.
Greg Bear, 08/20/1951-11/19/2022
Alan Boyle. Geekwire, 11/20/2022: Greg Bear, 1951-2022: Best-selling writer influenced sci-fi world, on and off the page.
Molly Templeton. tor.com, 11/21/2022: Greg Bear, 1951-2022.
82featherbear
"Penguin Random House’s agreement to buy Simon & Schuster is set to fall through. Simon & Schuster’s parent company decided not to extend it after a judge blocked the purchase."
Alexandra Alter, Elizabeth A. Harris and Benjamin Mullin. NYT, 11/20/2022: Deal to Merge Two Publishing Giants Is on the Verge of Collapse.
Alexandra Alter, Elizabeth A. Harris and Benjamin Mullin. NYT, 11/20/2022: Deal to Merge Two Publishing Giants Is on the Verge of Collapse.
83featherbear
"A visit with David Quammen, who confronted in COVID a story that refused to stay at a safe distance."
Joshua Sokol. The Atlantic, The Science Writer Every Science Nerd Wants You to Read.
Joshua Sokol. The Atlantic, The Science Writer Every Science Nerd Wants You to Read.
84maisiedotes
>81 featherbear: That end date looks like it needs correcting.
85featherbear
Rob Madole. Baffler, 11/21/2022: Life in the Fap Lane: Lost in the funhouse with John Barth.
86featherbear
>84 maisiedotes: Corrected; typo on my part. Thanks.
87featherbear
Nicholas Dawidoff. The Atlantic, 11/21/2022: Remembering Roger Angell: He taught us about the wonders of baseball and the joys of aging.
88featherbear
TLS November 25, 2022|No. 6243
Literature
Elizabeth Lowry. The jewel in James II’s crown: The sophisticated stories of Henry James’s middle period. Review of: The Aspern Papers and Other Tales, 1884 / Henry James, Edited by Rosella Mamoli Zorzi and Simone Francescato.
Olivia Laing. Radical Barbie: Secrets and lies in the life and work of Kathy Acker. Review of: Eat Your Mind: The radical life and work of Kathy Acker / Jason McBride.
Peter Brooks. What Catherine knew: Henry James’s attitude to his most popular novel. Review of: Washington Square Henry James, Edited by Gert Buelens and Susan M. Griffin.
Declan Ryan. Boswell to Johnson: Elizabeth Hardwick seen through the eyes of a writer she mentored. Review of: Come Back in September: A literary education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan / Darryl Pinckney.
Krishan Kumar. Through a Burmese lens: Class and colonialism in the works of George Orwell. Review of: Orwell and Empire / Douglas Kerr.
Miranda France. A gothic door stopper: An Argentine writer imagines a horrifying cross-century cult. Review of: Our Share of Night / Mariana Enriquez, translated by Megan McDowell.
Alice Brockhurst. After #MeToo: Virginie Despentes’s fight for feminism, emancipation – and greater understanding. Review of: Cher Connard / Virginie Despente.
Sarah Arens. Death became him: A twisted take on the classic whodunnit features spirits, scapegoats and rumba. Review of: Le commerce des Allongés / Alain Mabanckou.
Rory Waterman. Eye of the storm: A cosmopolitan ‘compendium of substantial American writing. Review of The Kenyon Review: Six issues per year. Print: US, $36 a year; rest of world, $71 a year. Digital-only and multi-year subscriptions also available, edited by Nicole Terez Dutton.
Sophie Oliver. All together now: Modernism in many forms. Review of: The Modernist Review:
modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com Free, Jinan Ashraf, Emily Bell, Elena Valli and Hannah Voss, editors.
Franklin Nelson. You must write it: A ‘mosaic of literary voices and cultures across the UK.’ Review of: Writers Mosaic: writersmosaic.org.uk Updated regularly. Royal Literary Fund. Free, Gabriel Gbadamosi, editor.
Stephen Romer. Photos and paperoles: Proof – and proofs – of Proust’s pre-eminence. Review of: Marcel Proust: la fabrique de l'oeuvre, Antoine Compagnon, Guillaume Fau, Nathalie Mauriac Dyer, editors (catalog of the exhibition at Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, until January 22, 2023).
Kyra Piperides. The glum rocker on radio: Broadcasts on the 100th anniversary of the poet’s birth. Review of BBC Radio Broadcast Larkin Revisited.
In Brief Review of: Black and Female / Tsitsi Dangarembga.
Arts
John Osborne. This be the music: Philip Larkin’s work inspired more than 400 compositions. Review of Astonishing the Brickwork: Philip Larkin set to music / James L. Orwin.
Philip Ball. Audible cheesecake?: How to become a better listener. Review of: This is What It Sounds Like: What the music you love says about you: With Ogi Ogas / Susan Rogers.
In Brief Review of: Audimat: Published twice a year. audimat-editions.fr. €10 per issue, Étienne Menu and Guillaume Heuguet, editors (journal of French pop music)
In Brief Review of: Rock ’n’ Roll Plays Itself: A screen history / John Scanlan.
History, Politics, & Society
Ian Cawood. Limits to Liberalism: The survival of a deeply conservative society. Review of: The Strange Survival of Liberal Britain: Politics and power before the First World War / Vernon Bogdanor.
Anne Nelson. Culture-cracking: How a handful of journalists helped to shape American public opinion. Review of: Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The reporters who took on a world at war / Deborah Cohen.
Jonathan Buckley. Inner conflict: A war reporter’s memoir of addiction. Review of: The Madness: A memoir of war, fear and PTSD / Fergal Keane.
Emily Thomas. This book could save your life: Three studies of self-help drawing on the wisdom of the ages. Review of: Growing Moral: A Confucian guide to life / Stephen C. Angle -- Breakfast with Seneca: A Stoic guide to the art of living / David Fideler -- How to Be You: Simone de Beauvoir and the art of authentic living / Skye Cleary.
Henry Hitchings. Easy does it: Champions of ‘slow journalism.’ Review of: Tortoise: tortoisemedia.com : Digital membership, James Harding, editor -- The Conversation: theconversation.com/uk : The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited. Free, Jo Adetunji, editor -- Coda : codastory.com : Free, Natalie Antelava, editor.
Ian Sansom. Lend me your ear: Ear drops and hearing aids. (Essay on his father's deafness & hiw own gradual loss of hearing in his senior years)
In Brief Review of: The Doctor Who Wasn't There: Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth / Jeremy A. Greene.
In Brief Review of: Psychic Investigators: Anthropology, modern spiritualism, and credible witnessing in the late Victorian age / Efram Sera-Shriar,
In Brief Review of: Pull Devil, Pull Baker / Stella Benson. TLS gives no publisher information, but apparently a republication of a 1933 imprint; 8 copies in LT at this writing.
In Brief Review of: The Last Anglo-Jewish Gentleman: The life and times of Redcliffe Nathan Salaman / Todd M. Endelman.
Literature
Elizabeth Lowry. The jewel in James II’s crown: The sophisticated stories of Henry James’s middle period. Review of: The Aspern Papers and Other Tales, 1884 / Henry James, Edited by Rosella Mamoli Zorzi and Simone Francescato.
Olivia Laing. Radical Barbie: Secrets and lies in the life and work of Kathy Acker. Review of: Eat Your Mind: The radical life and work of Kathy Acker / Jason McBride.
Peter Brooks. What Catherine knew: Henry James’s attitude to his most popular novel. Review of: Washington Square Henry James, Edited by Gert Buelens and Susan M. Griffin.
Declan Ryan. Boswell to Johnson: Elizabeth Hardwick seen through the eyes of a writer she mentored. Review of: Come Back in September: A literary education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan / Darryl Pinckney.
Krishan Kumar. Through a Burmese lens: Class and colonialism in the works of George Orwell. Review of: Orwell and Empire / Douglas Kerr.
Miranda France. A gothic door stopper: An Argentine writer imagines a horrifying cross-century cult. Review of: Our Share of Night / Mariana Enriquez, translated by Megan McDowell.
Alice Brockhurst. After #MeToo: Virginie Despentes’s fight for feminism, emancipation – and greater understanding. Review of: Cher Connard / Virginie Despente.
Sarah Arens. Death became him: A twisted take on the classic whodunnit features spirits, scapegoats and rumba. Review of: Le commerce des Allongés / Alain Mabanckou.
Rory Waterman. Eye of the storm: A cosmopolitan ‘compendium of substantial American writing. Review of The Kenyon Review: Six issues per year. Print: US, $36 a year; rest of world, $71 a year. Digital-only and multi-year subscriptions also available, edited by Nicole Terez Dutton.
Sophie Oliver. All together now: Modernism in many forms. Review of: The Modernist Review:
modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com Free, Jinan Ashraf, Emily Bell, Elena Valli and Hannah Voss, editors.
Franklin Nelson. You must write it: A ‘mosaic of literary voices and cultures across the UK.’ Review of: Writers Mosaic: writersmosaic.org.uk Updated regularly. Royal Literary Fund. Free, Gabriel Gbadamosi, editor.
Stephen Romer. Photos and paperoles: Proof – and proofs – of Proust’s pre-eminence. Review of: Marcel Proust: la fabrique de l'oeuvre, Antoine Compagnon, Guillaume Fau, Nathalie Mauriac Dyer, editors (catalog of the exhibition at Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, until January 22, 2023).
Kyra Piperides. The glum rocker on radio: Broadcasts on the 100th anniversary of the poet’s birth. Review of BBC Radio Broadcast Larkin Revisited.
In Brief Review of: Black and Female / Tsitsi Dangarembga.
Arts
John Osborne. This be the music: Philip Larkin’s work inspired more than 400 compositions. Review of Astonishing the Brickwork: Philip Larkin set to music / James L. Orwin.
Philip Ball. Audible cheesecake?: How to become a better listener. Review of: This is What It Sounds Like: What the music you love says about you: With Ogi Ogas / Susan Rogers.
In Brief Review of: Audimat: Published twice a year. audimat-editions.fr. €10 per issue, Étienne Menu and Guillaume Heuguet, editors (journal of French pop music)
In Brief Review of: Rock ’n’ Roll Plays Itself: A screen history / John Scanlan.
History, Politics, & Society
Ian Cawood. Limits to Liberalism: The survival of a deeply conservative society. Review of: The Strange Survival of Liberal Britain: Politics and power before the First World War / Vernon Bogdanor.
Anne Nelson. Culture-cracking: How a handful of journalists helped to shape American public opinion. Review of: Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The reporters who took on a world at war / Deborah Cohen.
Jonathan Buckley. Inner conflict: A war reporter’s memoir of addiction. Review of: The Madness: A memoir of war, fear and PTSD / Fergal Keane.
Emily Thomas. This book could save your life: Three studies of self-help drawing on the wisdom of the ages. Review of: Growing Moral: A Confucian guide to life / Stephen C. Angle -- Breakfast with Seneca: A Stoic guide to the art of living / David Fideler -- How to Be You: Simone de Beauvoir and the art of authentic living / Skye Cleary.
Henry Hitchings. Easy does it: Champions of ‘slow journalism.’ Review of: Tortoise: tortoisemedia.com : Digital membership, James Harding, editor -- The Conversation: theconversation.com/uk : The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited. Free, Jo Adetunji, editor -- Coda : codastory.com : Free, Natalie Antelava, editor.
Ian Sansom. Lend me your ear: Ear drops and hearing aids. (Essay on his father's deafness & hiw own gradual loss of hearing in his senior years)
In Brief Review of: The Doctor Who Wasn't There: Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth / Jeremy A. Greene.
In Brief Review of: Psychic Investigators: Anthropology, modern spiritualism, and credible witnessing in the late Victorian age / Efram Sera-Shriar,
In Brief Review of: Pull Devil, Pull Baker / Stella Benson. TLS gives no publisher information, but apparently a republication of a 1933 imprint; 8 copies in LT at this writing.
In Brief Review of: The Last Anglo-Jewish Gentleman: The life and times of Redcliffe Nathan Salaman / Todd M. Endelman.
89featherbear
Holiday reading from Public Books
Sarah Brouillette. 11/23/2022: Reading After the University. On Outside Literary Studies: Black Criticism and the University / Andy Hines -- Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Studies / John Guillory.
Lee Konstantinou. 11/22/2022: "The Last Samurai," Unread. About his book, The Last Samurai Reread, which is about Helen DeWitt's The Last Samurai.
Sarah Brouillette. 11/23/2022: Reading After the University. On Outside Literary Studies: Black Criticism and the University / Andy Hines -- Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Studies / John Guillory.
Lee Konstantinou. 11/22/2022: "The Last Samurai," Unread. About his book, The Last Samurai Reread, which is about Helen DeWitt's The Last Samurai.
90featherbear
Holiday reading from Quillette.
Robin Ashenden. 11/25/2022: In From the Cold: Solzhenitsyn’s Ivan Denisovich at 60.
David S. Wills. 11/24/2022: Murakami On Writing.
Robin Ashenden. 11/25/2022: In From the Cold: Solzhenitsyn’s Ivan Denisovich at 60.
David S. Wills. 11/24/2022: Murakami On Writing.
91featherbear
Bookforum contributors on what they're reading. Don't see a date, but I assume this is fall/winter quarter: Horse's Mouth.
92featherbear
New York Times Book Review, 11/22/2022: 100 Notable Books of 2022.
93featherbear
Books of 2022 from WaPo:
Washington Post Editors and Reviewers. 11/17/2022: The 10 best books of 2022.
Nora Krug & Stephanie Merrie. 11/17/2022: The 12 best thriller and mystery novels of 2022.
Washington Post Editors and Reviewers. 11/17/2022: 50 notable works of fiction.
Washington Post Editors and Reviewers. 11/17/2022: The 10 best books of 2022.
Nora Krug & Stephanie Merrie. 11/17/2022: The 12 best thriller and mystery novels of 2022.
Washington Post Editors and Reviewers. 11/17/2022: 50 notable works of fiction.
94featherbear
Applying literary theory to the news:
Sophia Stewart. The Atlantic, 11/17/2022: Beware the ‘Storification’ of the Internet. A consult with Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative / Peter Brooks.
Sophia Stewart. The Atlantic, 11/17/2022: Beware the ‘Storification’ of the Internet. A consult with Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative / Peter Brooks.
95featherbear
Strange tastes in reading I have known. Two from The Atlantic:
Hamilton Cain. 11/28/2022: Seven Books About How the World Really Works.
Lauren Silverman. 11/28/2022: The Strange Allure of Reading Ordinary People’s Diaries.
Hamilton Cain. 11/28/2022: Seven Books About How the World Really Works.
Lauren Silverman. 11/28/2022: The Strange Allure of Reading Ordinary People’s Diaries.
96featherbear
From the The New Yorker. Dates from online appearance; usually appears the following week in print.
Maggie Doherty. 11/28/2022: Kathy Acker’s Art of Identity Theft.
Jill Lepore. 11/28/2022: Is Mick Herron the Best Spy Novelist of His Generation?
Adam Gopnick. 11/28/2022: What Hollywood’s Ultimate Oral History Reveals. Review of: Hollywood: The Oral History / Jeanine Basinger & Sam Wasson.
Peter C. Baker. 11/25/2022: There’s Nothing Decorous About Rob Delaney’s Grief. Review of: A Heart That Works / Rob Delaney.
Maggie Doherty. 11/28/2022: Kathy Acker’s Art of Identity Theft.
Jill Lepore. 11/28/2022: Is Mick Herron the Best Spy Novelist of His Generation?
Adam Gopnick. 11/28/2022: What Hollywood’s Ultimate Oral History Reveals. Review of: Hollywood: The Oral History / Jeanine Basinger & Sam Wasson.
Peter C. Baker. 11/25/2022: There’s Nothing Decorous About Rob Delaney’s Grief. Review of: A Heart That Works / Rob Delaney.
97featherbear
TLS December 2, 2022|No. 6244
Literature
Hal Jensen. Not the final word: Novels of grieving, remembrance and revival. Review of: Someday, Maybe / Onyi Nwabineli -- There's Been a Little Incident / Alice Ryan -- The Ghost Variations / Damian Lanigan -- The Furrows / Namwali Serpell -- My Mind to Me a Kingdom / Paul Stanbridge.
Lucasta Miller. Wife, mother, worker: How to make the life of Sylvia Plath ‘relatable.’ Review of: Euphoria / Elin Cullhed; translated by Jennifer Hayashida.
Ana Alicia Garza. Is man no more than this?: Representations of British vagrancy in politics and literature. Review of: Vagrancy in the Victorian Age / Alistair Robinson -- The Tramp in British Literature, 1850-1950 / Luke Lewin Davies -- Vagabonds: Life on the streets of nineteenth-century London / Oskar Jensen.
Martin Beagles. Lost in translation: An ‘original’ new work by J. M. Coetzee – in Spanish. Review of: El polaco / J. M. Coetzee, translated by Mariana Dimópulos.
Alison Kelly. Attuned to the absurd: The correspondence between a short-story writer and a poet. Review of: Love, Loosha: The letters of Lucia Berlin and Kenward Elmslie / Chip Livingston, editor.
Mark Thompson. A person of passions: The reluctant letters of a European master. Review of: Iz Prepiske / Danilo Kiš; Edited by Mirjana Miočinović.
In Brief Review of: Awake / Harald Voetmann; Translated by Johanne Sorgenfri Ottosen.
In Brief Review of: States of Plague: Reading Albert Camus in a pandemic / Alice Kaplan and Laura Marris.
Arts
Norma Clarke. Married to her art: The life and work of a quietly trailblazing painter. Review of 3 exhibitions: Rosa Bonheur (1822–1899) / Musée d’Orsay, Paris, until January 15, 2023 -- Capturer l'ame: Rosa Bonheur et l’animalier / Château de Fontainebleau, until January 23 -- Rosa Bonheur intime / Château de Rosa Bonheur, Thomery, until January 30, 2023.
Craig Raine. Pitiless misogynist?: Searching for Lucian Freud’s psychology in his paintings. Review of: Love Lucian: The letters of Lucian Freud 1939–1954 / David Dawson and Martin Gayford, editors and Lucian Freud / Daniel F. Herrmann; catalog of the exhibition Lucian Freud, new perspectives / National Gallery, until January 22, 2023.
Ian Christie. Making the Fun Factory: A master of the music hall who trained Charlie Chaplin. Review of: Fred Karno: The legend behind the laughter / David Crump.
Lindsey Hilsum. Stealing Ukraine’s past: The Russians stripped Kherson’s art collection bare before they retreated.
In Brief Review of: The Fantasy of the Middle Ages: An epic journey through imaginary medieval worlds / Larisa Grollemond and Bryan C. Keene.
Science and Technology
Nessa Carey. The gene genie: Recent scientific breakthroughs allow experimentation with the DNA of all living species. Review of: The Genetic Age: Our perilous quest to edit life / Matthew Cobb.
Charles Foster. From forager to banker: Surveying mankind’s rapid evolution. Review of: Homo Sapiens Reconsidered: The scientific revolution rewriting our origins / Paul Pettitt.
History, Politics, & Society
Harry Sidebottom. They made a desert: It took a great power to kill off a city. Review of: The Destruction of Cities in the Ancient World: Integrating the archaeological and literary evidence / Sylvian Fachard and Edward Harris, editors.
Greg Woolf. Twinned cities: The relationship between two ancient civic communities. Review of: Teos and Abdera: Two cities in peace and war / Mustafa Adak and Peter Thonemann.
Teresa Lim. Review of: The Interpreter's Daughter: A remarkable true story of feminist defiance in 19th century Singapore / Teresa Lim.
Tony Badger. Roosevelt’s rough deal: How FDR became a statesman through his battle with polio. Review of: Becoming FDR: The personal crisis that made a president / Jonathan Darman -- FDR: Transforming the presidency and renewing America / Iwan Morgan.
Tom F. Wright. Abraham Lincoln’s blithe spiritualist: A fascinating connection between the president and his assassin. Review of: In the Houses of Their Dead: The Lincolns, the Booths, and the spirits / Terry Alford.
Julia Beno. Time to bin the bell curve: On the notion of ‘normal’ and what it has done to us. Review of: Am I Normal? The 200-year search for normal people (and why they don’t exist) / Sarah Chaney.
Michael Robertson. Confusion of the brain: William Morris, Marx and Capital. (Essay)
Lawrence Douglas. Know them by their clients: The rise of ruthless legal megafirms. Review of: Servants of the Damned: Giant law firms and the corruption of justice / David Enrich.
Irina Dumitrescu. The need for greed: The other side of gluttony. (Essay)
In Brief Review of: Tree Thieves: Crime and survival in the woods / Lyndsie Bourgon.
In Brief Review of: Football in the Land of the Soviets / Carles Viñas, translated by Luke Stobart.
In Brief Review of: On Not Knowing: How to love and other essays / Emily Ogden.
Literature
Hal Jensen. Not the final word: Novels of grieving, remembrance and revival. Review of: Someday, Maybe / Onyi Nwabineli -- There's Been a Little Incident / Alice Ryan -- The Ghost Variations / Damian Lanigan -- The Furrows / Namwali Serpell -- My Mind to Me a Kingdom / Paul Stanbridge.
Lucasta Miller. Wife, mother, worker: How to make the life of Sylvia Plath ‘relatable.’ Review of: Euphoria / Elin Cullhed; translated by Jennifer Hayashida.
Ana Alicia Garza. Is man no more than this?: Representations of British vagrancy in politics and literature. Review of: Vagrancy in the Victorian Age / Alistair Robinson -- The Tramp in British Literature, 1850-1950 / Luke Lewin Davies -- Vagabonds: Life on the streets of nineteenth-century London / Oskar Jensen.
Martin Beagles. Lost in translation: An ‘original’ new work by J. M. Coetzee – in Spanish. Review of: El polaco / J. M. Coetzee, translated by Mariana Dimópulos.
Alison Kelly. Attuned to the absurd: The correspondence between a short-story writer and a poet. Review of: Love, Loosha: The letters of Lucia Berlin and Kenward Elmslie / Chip Livingston, editor.
Mark Thompson. A person of passions: The reluctant letters of a European master. Review of: Iz Prepiske / Danilo Kiš; Edited by Mirjana Miočinović.
In Brief Review of: Awake / Harald Voetmann; Translated by Johanne Sorgenfri Ottosen.
In Brief Review of: States of Plague: Reading Albert Camus in a pandemic / Alice Kaplan and Laura Marris.
Arts
Norma Clarke. Married to her art: The life and work of a quietly trailblazing painter. Review of 3 exhibitions: Rosa Bonheur (1822–1899) / Musée d’Orsay, Paris, until January 15, 2023 -- Capturer l'ame: Rosa Bonheur et l’animalier / Château de Fontainebleau, until January 23 -- Rosa Bonheur intime / Château de Rosa Bonheur, Thomery, until January 30, 2023.
Craig Raine. Pitiless misogynist?: Searching for Lucian Freud’s psychology in his paintings. Review of: Love Lucian: The letters of Lucian Freud 1939–1954 / David Dawson and Martin Gayford, editors and Lucian Freud / Daniel F. Herrmann; catalog of the exhibition Lucian Freud, new perspectives / National Gallery, until January 22, 2023.
Ian Christie. Making the Fun Factory: A master of the music hall who trained Charlie Chaplin. Review of: Fred Karno: The legend behind the laughter / David Crump.
Lindsey Hilsum. Stealing Ukraine’s past: The Russians stripped Kherson’s art collection bare before they retreated.
In Brief Review of: The Fantasy of the Middle Ages: An epic journey through imaginary medieval worlds / Larisa Grollemond and Bryan C. Keene.
Science and Technology
Nessa Carey. The gene genie: Recent scientific breakthroughs allow experimentation with the DNA of all living species. Review of: The Genetic Age: Our perilous quest to edit life / Matthew Cobb.
Charles Foster. From forager to banker: Surveying mankind’s rapid evolution. Review of: Homo Sapiens Reconsidered: The scientific revolution rewriting our origins / Paul Pettitt.
History, Politics, & Society
Harry Sidebottom. They made a desert: It took a great power to kill off a city. Review of: The Destruction of Cities in the Ancient World: Integrating the archaeological and literary evidence / Sylvian Fachard and Edward Harris, editors.
Greg Woolf. Twinned cities: The relationship between two ancient civic communities. Review of: Teos and Abdera: Two cities in peace and war / Mustafa Adak and Peter Thonemann.
Teresa Lim. Review of: The Interpreter's Daughter: A remarkable true story of feminist defiance in 19th century Singapore / Teresa Lim.
Tony Badger. Roosevelt’s rough deal: How FDR became a statesman through his battle with polio. Review of: Becoming FDR: The personal crisis that made a president / Jonathan Darman -- FDR: Transforming the presidency and renewing America / Iwan Morgan.
Tom F. Wright. Abraham Lincoln’s blithe spiritualist: A fascinating connection between the president and his assassin. Review of: In the Houses of Their Dead: The Lincolns, the Booths, and the spirits / Terry Alford.
Julia Beno. Time to bin the bell curve: On the notion of ‘normal’ and what it has done to us. Review of: Am I Normal? The 200-year search for normal people (and why they don’t exist) / Sarah Chaney.
Michael Robertson. Confusion of the brain: William Morris, Marx and Capital. (Essay)
Lawrence Douglas. Know them by their clients: The rise of ruthless legal megafirms. Review of: Servants of the Damned: Giant law firms and the corruption of justice / David Enrich.
Irina Dumitrescu. The need for greed: The other side of gluttony. (Essay)
In Brief Review of: Tree Thieves: Crime and survival in the woods / Lyndsie Bourgon.
In Brief Review of: Football in the Land of the Soviets / Carles Viñas, translated by Luke Stobart.
In Brief Review of: On Not Knowing: How to love and other essays / Emily Ogden.
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Kathryn Jezer-Morton. The Cut, 11/28/2022: Are There Any Kids’ Books Out There That Are … Actually Good?
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Reading rediscoveries.
New Yorker, 11/29/2022: The Year in Rereading: The books we returned to this year for insight, comfort, and delight.
New Yorker, 11/29/2022: The Year in Rereading: The books we returned to this year for insight, comfort, and delight.
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Lauren Hakimi. BuzzFeed News, 11/30/2022: 10 Informative Books That Will Help You Understand What’s Happening In Iran.
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"Often vilified as a weapon of male supremacy, pornography in fact has much to tell us about ourselves and our culture." Lubey is the author of What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest since the Eighteenth Century; not clear whether this is an excerpt.
Kathleen Lubey. Aeon, 11/29/2022: The honesty of pornography.
Kathleen Lubey. Aeon, 11/29/2022: The honesty of pornography.
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"Weak novels cause us to attend to fiction as strategy rather than as entertainment. Tristram Shandy is a weak novel. It is a novel that only weakly consents to participate in the conventions of genre, that is always about to—and sometimes does—fail to be a novel at all."
Lucy Ives. The Baffler, 11/30/2022: The Weak Novel: An inappropriate, indispensable form.
Lucy Ives. The Baffler, 11/30/2022: The Weak Novel: An inappropriate, indispensable form.
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Recent reviews from the UK Critic:
Richard Bratby. November print issue. Reconstructing a self-destructive life. On Joseph Roth.
Victoria Smith. 11/30/2022: Defending women’s spaces, again. Review of: Defending Women's Spaces / Karen Ingala Smith.
Stephen Daisley. 11/17/2022: Those new puritans. Review of: The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World / Andrew Doyle.
Richard Bratby. November print issue. Reconstructing a self-destructive life. On Joseph Roth.
Victoria Smith. 11/30/2022: Defending women’s spaces, again. Review of: Defending Women's Spaces / Karen Ingala Smith.
Stephen Daisley. 11/17/2022: Those new puritans. Review of: The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World / Andrew Doyle.
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"Why should one not have readers? Was there any merit in being difficult or obscure?"
Michael Hofmann. n+1 online, 11/29/2022: On Hans Magnus Enzensberger.
Michael Hofmann. n+1 online, 11/29/2022: On Hans Magnus Enzensberger.
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Aline Kominsky-Crumb, 1948-2022
Zoe Guy. Vulture, 12/01/2022: Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Rebellious Cartoonist, Dead at 74. Author of Need More Love & Crumb Family Covid Exposé.
Michael S. Rosenwald. WaPo, 12/01/2022: Aline Kominsky-Crumb, feminist underground cartoonist, dies at 74.
Zoe Guy. Vulture, 12/01/2022: Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Rebellious Cartoonist, Dead at 74. Author of Need More Love & Crumb Family Covid Exposé.
Michael S. Rosenwald. WaPo, 12/01/2022: Aline Kominsky-Crumb, feminist underground cartoonist, dies at 74.
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Martin Laflamme. LARB, 12/02/2022: The Masks of Xi Jinping. Review of: Xi Jinping: Political Career, Governance, and Leadership, 1953–2018 / Alfred L. Chan -- Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion: Elite Power Struggles in the Soviet Union and China after Stalin and Mao / Joseph Torigian.
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Eric Rosenblum. New Yorker, 12/01/2022: Katherine Dunn’s Dark Carnival of Desire.
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Maya Solovej. The Baffler, 11/29/2022: Mother May I: Vigdis Hjorth’s reality literature. Review of: Is Mother Dead / Vigdis Hjorth, trans. Charlotte Barslund.
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Susie Mesure. Guardian, 12/02/2022: ‘I want to savour every word’: the joy of reading slowly.
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Elisabeth Schimpfössl and Felix Sandalov. NYT, 12/04/2022: The Teen Romance Novel That Russia’s Politicians Just Can’t Bear.
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Bernadette Meyer, 1945-2022
Alex Williams. NYT, 12/04/2022: Bernadette Mayer, Poet Who Celebrated the Ordinary, Dies at 77. Author of Another Smashed Pinecone & Midwinter Day.
Rivka Galchen. New Yorker, 12/09/2022: Bernadette Mayer, the Poet of Escape.
Hannah Zeavin. n+1, 12/12/2022: “There is a life here”: On Bernadette Mayer (1945–2022).
Alex Williams. NYT, 12/04/2022: Bernadette Mayer, Poet Who Celebrated the Ordinary, Dies at 77. Author of Another Smashed Pinecone & Midwinter Day.
Rivka Galchen. New Yorker, 12/09/2022: Bernadette Mayer, the Poet of Escape.
Hannah Zeavin. n+1, 12/12/2022: “There is a life here”: On Bernadette Mayer (1945–2022).
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New York Times Books Staff. NYT, 11/29/2022: The 10 Best Books of 2022.
The Candy House / Jennifer Egan -- Checkout 19 / Claire Louise Bennett -- Demon Copperhead / Barbara Kingsolver -- The Furrows / Namwalli Serpell -- Trust / Hernan Diaz -- An Immense World / Ed Yong -- Stay True: a Memoir / Hua Hsu -- Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us / Rachel Aviv -- Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation / Linda Villarosa -- We Don’t Know Ourselves / Fintan O'Toole.
Sarah Lyall. NYT, 12/04/2022: The Best Thrillers of 2022.
The Appeal / Janice Hallett -- Broken Summer / J.M. Lee -- The Other Side of Night: a Novel / Adam Hamdy -- Blood Sugar / Sascha Rothchild -- The Murder Rule: a Novel / Dervla McTiernan -- The Island: a Thriller / Adrian McKinty.
Addendum.
Sarah Weinmann. NYT, 12/06/2022: The Best Crime Novels of 2022.
Best debut: Don't Know Though / Eli Cranor and Portrait of a Thief / Grace D. Li.
Best standalones: Real Easy / Marie Rutkoski -- The Lost Kings / Tyrell Johnson -- Gangland / Chuck Hogan -- Anywhere You Run / Wanda M. Morris -- Survivor's Guilt / Robyn Gigl.
Best in series: Vera Kelly Lost and Found / Rosalie Knecht -- Secrets Typed in Blood / Stephen Spotswood.
Best overall: Notes on an Execution / Danya Kukafka.
Best in genre nonfiction: The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators / Martin Edwards.
The Candy House / Jennifer Egan -- Checkout 19 / Claire Louise Bennett -- Demon Copperhead / Barbara Kingsolver -- The Furrows / Namwalli Serpell -- Trust / Hernan Diaz -- An Immense World / Ed Yong -- Stay True: a Memoir / Hua Hsu -- Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us / Rachel Aviv -- Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation / Linda Villarosa -- We Don’t Know Ourselves / Fintan O'Toole.
Sarah Lyall. NYT, 12/04/2022: The Best Thrillers of 2022.
The Appeal / Janice Hallett -- Broken Summer / J.M. Lee -- The Other Side of Night: a Novel / Adam Hamdy -- Blood Sugar / Sascha Rothchild -- The Murder Rule: a Novel / Dervla McTiernan -- The Island: a Thriller / Adrian McKinty.
Addendum.
Sarah Weinmann. NYT, 12/06/2022: The Best Crime Novels of 2022.
Best debut: Don't Know Though / Eli Cranor and Portrait of a Thief / Grace D. Li.
Best standalones: Real Easy / Marie Rutkoski -- The Lost Kings / Tyrell Johnson -- Gangland / Chuck Hogan -- Anywhere You Run / Wanda M. Morris -- Survivor's Guilt / Robyn Gigl.
Best in series: Vera Kelly Lost and Found / Rosalie Knecht -- Secrets Typed in Blood / Stephen Spotswood.
Best overall: Notes on an Execution / Danya Kukafka.
Best in genre nonfiction: The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators / Martin Edwards.
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Odds & ends from LARB:
Chris Yogerst. 12/05/2022: Hollywood on Hollywood. Review of: Hollywood: The Oral History / Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson.
Kurt Guldentops, Sungshin Kim. 12/03/2022: The Fantasy Story as a Merciless Laboratory of History. Review of: Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution / R.F. Kuang.
Timothy Larsen. 12/04/2022: Naming Names. Review of: Confessions: A Life of Failed Promises / A.N. Wilson.
Chris Yogerst. 12/05/2022: Hollywood on Hollywood. Review of: Hollywood: The Oral History / Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson.
Kurt Guldentops, Sungshin Kim. 12/03/2022: The Fantasy Story as a Merciless Laboratory of History. Review of: Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution / R.F. Kuang.
Timothy Larsen. 12/04/2022: Naming Names. Review of: Confessions: A Life of Failed Promises / A.N. Wilson.
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Alyssa Rosenberg. WaPo, 12/06/2022: To build a delightful library for kids, start with these 99 books.
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New York Review of Books, Dec. 22 2022 issue:
Literature
Michael Gorra. Language, Destroyer of Worlds. Review of: The Passenger and Stella Maris / Cormac McCarthy.
Nathaniel Rich. Houses of Holes. Review of: Weasels in the Attic -- The Hole -- The Factory / Hiroko Oyamada; translated by David Boyd.
Merve Emre. Making it Big. Review of: Roald Dahl: Teller of the Unexpected / Matthew Dennison.
Stacy Schiff. Writing the Furies. Review of: A Left-Handed Woman: Essays / Judith Thurman.
Tobi Haslett. A Dream of a Great Burning. Review of: Look for Me and I’ll Be Gone -- Fanon -- A Glance Away -- Hurry Home -- The Lynchers -- The Homewood Books: Damballah, Hiding Place, Sent for You Yesterday -- Brothers and Keepers -- Philadelphia Fire / all by John Edgar Wideman.
Rebecca Giggs. The Sea, the SeaReview of: The Sea Trilogy: Under the Sea-Wind, The Sea Around Us, The Edge of the Sea / Rachel Carson, edited by Sandra Steingraber (Library of America Series)
Arts
Martin Filler. Whips and Vines. Review of: Art Nouveau Architecture / Anne Anderson -- Henry van de Velde: Selected Essays, 1889–1914 / edited by Katherine M. Kuenzli, translated from the French and German by Elizabeth Tucker -- Art Nouveau: Art, Architecture and Design in Transformation / Charlotte Ashby -- Hector Guimard: How Paris Got Its Curves, an exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York City, November 18, 2022–May 21, 2023; and the Richard H. Driehaus Museum, Chicago, June 22, 2023–January 7, 2024 -- Hector Guimard: Art Nouveau to Modernism, catalog of the exhibition edited by David A. Hanks, with contributions by Barry Bergdoll, Sarah D. Coffin, Isabelle Gournay, Philippe Thiébaut, Georges Vigne, Alisa Chiles, and Yao-Fen Yo -- Aubrey Beardsley, 150 Years Young, an exhibition at the Grolier Club, New York City, September 8–November 12, 2022.
Stephen Greenblatt. ‘Competitive Consumption. Review of The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England catalog of the exhibition of the same name at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, October 10, 2022–January 8, 2023; the Cleveland Museum of Art, February 26–May 14, 2023; and the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, June 24–September 24, 2023, the catalog by Elizabeth Cleland and Adam Eaker, with contributions by Marjorie E. Wieseman and Sarah Bochicchio.
Anahid Nersessian. The Hunter. Review of: Fossora / an album by Björk.
Colm Tóibín. Cut, Mold, Reshape, Tear. Essay: "From an early age, Picasso worked with anything that was to hand—including, often, scissors and paper."
Gabriel Winslow-Yost. No Surprises. Review of The Rehearsal, an HBO series written and directed by Nathan Fielder and cowritten by Carrie Kemper and Eric Notarnicola.
History, Politics, & Social Science
Sean Wilentz. The Emancipators’ Vision. Review of: Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation / Kris Manjapra.
Natalia Ginzburg and Alba de Céspedes, introduction by Ann Goldstein. On Women: An Exchange.
Michael Tomasky. Looming Questions for the Democrats. Essay: "Their responsibility these next two years will be to continue, without apology, on the economic path they’ve been pursuing."
Marilynne Robinson. A Theology of the Present Moment. Essay: "Can bringing Scripture and science back into dialogue help answer the question of why there is something rather than nothing?"
Literature
Michael Gorra. Language, Destroyer of Worlds. Review of: The Passenger and Stella Maris / Cormac McCarthy.
Nathaniel Rich. Houses of Holes. Review of: Weasels in the Attic -- The Hole -- The Factory / Hiroko Oyamada; translated by David Boyd.
Merve Emre. Making it Big. Review of: Roald Dahl: Teller of the Unexpected / Matthew Dennison.
Stacy Schiff. Writing the Furies. Review of: A Left-Handed Woman: Essays / Judith Thurman.
Tobi Haslett. A Dream of a Great Burning. Review of: Look for Me and I’ll Be Gone -- Fanon -- A Glance Away -- Hurry Home -- The Lynchers -- The Homewood Books: Damballah, Hiding Place, Sent for You Yesterday -- Brothers and Keepers -- Philadelphia Fire / all by John Edgar Wideman.
Rebecca Giggs. The Sea, the SeaReview of: The Sea Trilogy: Under the Sea-Wind, The Sea Around Us, The Edge of the Sea / Rachel Carson, edited by Sandra Steingraber (Library of America Series)
Arts
Martin Filler. Whips and Vines. Review of: Art Nouveau Architecture / Anne Anderson -- Henry van de Velde: Selected Essays, 1889–1914 / edited by Katherine M. Kuenzli, translated from the French and German by Elizabeth Tucker -- Art Nouveau: Art, Architecture and Design in Transformation / Charlotte Ashby -- Hector Guimard: How Paris Got Its Curves, an exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York City, November 18, 2022–May 21, 2023; and the Richard H. Driehaus Museum, Chicago, June 22, 2023–January 7, 2024 -- Hector Guimard: Art Nouveau to Modernism, catalog of the exhibition edited by David A. Hanks, with contributions by Barry Bergdoll, Sarah D. Coffin, Isabelle Gournay, Philippe Thiébaut, Georges Vigne, Alisa Chiles, and Yao-Fen Yo -- Aubrey Beardsley, 150 Years Young, an exhibition at the Grolier Club, New York City, September 8–November 12, 2022.
Stephen Greenblatt. ‘Competitive Consumption. Review of The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England catalog of the exhibition of the same name at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, October 10, 2022–January 8, 2023; the Cleveland Museum of Art, February 26–May 14, 2023; and the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, June 24–September 24, 2023, the catalog by Elizabeth Cleland and Adam Eaker, with contributions by Marjorie E. Wieseman and Sarah Bochicchio.
Anahid Nersessian. The Hunter. Review of: Fossora / an album by Björk.
Colm Tóibín. Cut, Mold, Reshape, Tear. Essay: "From an early age, Picasso worked with anything that was to hand—including, often, scissors and paper."
Gabriel Winslow-Yost. No Surprises. Review of The Rehearsal, an HBO series written and directed by Nathan Fielder and cowritten by Carrie Kemper and Eric Notarnicola.
History, Politics, & Social Science
Sean Wilentz. The Emancipators’ Vision. Review of: Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation / Kris Manjapra.
Natalia Ginzburg and Alba de Céspedes, introduction by Ann Goldstein. On Women: An Exchange.
Michael Tomasky. Looming Questions for the Democrats. Essay: "Their responsibility these next two years will be to continue, without apology, on the economic path they’ve been pursuing."
Marilynne Robinson. A Theology of the Present Moment. Essay: "Can bringing Scripture and science back into dialogue help answer the question of why there is something rather than nothing?"
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TLS December 9, 2022|No. 6245
Literature & Language
J.S. Barnes. The marvels of the world: The ‘alternative belief system’ of a superhero universe. Review of 3 items in the Penguin Classics Marvel Collection: The Amazing Spider Man Penguin Classics Marvel Collection / Stan Lee and Steve Ditko -- Captain America Penguin Marvel Classics Collection / Jack Kirby, Joe Simon, Stan Lee et al -- Black Panther / Don McGregor, Rich BuCKLer.
Ian Sansom. The wizard returns: A ‘funny’ and ‘disgusting’ history of the comic books industry. Review of: Illuminations / Alan Moore.
Norma Clarke. Horribly good: Samuel Richardson’s attempt to interest readers in a Christian hero. Review of: Sir Charles Grandison / Samuel Richardson, Edited by E. Derek Taylor, Melvyn New and Elizabeth Kraft (3,000 pages!)
Craig Raine. Say it for the simile: In defence of a crowd-pleasing poetic device. (Essay)
In Brief Review of: The Rest Is Slander / Thomas Bernhard, translated by Douglas Robertson.
In Brief Review of: Et tu Brute?: The Best Latin Lines Ever / Harry Mount and John Davie.
In Brief Review of: Rivall Friendship / Bridget Manningham; edited by Jean R. Brink.
Arts
Declan Ryan. Seeds of optimism: Nick Cave on religion, grief and ‘making the world a better place’. Review of: Faith, Hope, and Carnage / Nick Cave and Séan O'Hagan.
Simone Gubler. Wrong but romantic: How immorality affects our attitudes to artists and their work. Review of: Drawing the Line: What to do with the work of immoral artists from museums to the movies / Erich Hatala Matthes.
Breeze Barrington. Out of the picture: Redressing the canon’s male bias. Review of: The Story of Art Without Men / Katy Hessel.
Rebecca Birrell. Portrait of a woman: An imagined correspondence between two painters. Review of: Letters to Gwen John / Celia Paul.
Larry Wolff. Viva the divas!: Renée Fleming, Kelli O’Hara and Joyce DiDonato star in an opera based on Michael Cunningham’s novel The Hours. Review of: The Hours: Metropolitan Opera, New York, until December 15. Live transmission in various cinemas, December 10 / Kevin Puts.
Clare Saxby. Buried by the Blast: A pioneering female vorticist emerges from Wyndham Lewis’s shadow. Review of the exhibition Helen Saunders, Modernist Rebel: Courtauld Gallery, until January 29, 2023.
In Brief Review of: Pre-raphaelites in the Spirit World: The séance diary of William Michael Rossetti / J. B. Bullen, Rosalind White, Lenore A. Beaky, editors.
Philosophy
Cheryl Misak. A life lived well, probably: Was John Venn the missing link in analytic philosophy?. Review of: John Venn: A Life in Logic / Lukas M. Verburgt.
Science and Technology
Sharon Ann Holgate. To infinity and beyond: A theoretical physicist’s guide to numbers very small and very large. Review of: Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them / Antonio Padilla.
Katie Hafner. Taming the beast: The women who ushered in ‘the birth of the Information Age’. Review of: Proving Ground: The untold story of the six women who programmed the world’s first modern computer / Kathy Kleiman.
Jennie Erin Smith. The ascent of the Huxleys: How ‘Darwin’s bulldog’ sired a line of scientific communicators. Review of: An Intimate History of Evolution: The story of the Huxley family / Alison Bashford (American title: The Huxleys: an intimate history of Evolution)
History, Politics & Society
Michael Press. Show stopper: The 100th anniversary of the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb. Review of: Treasured: How Tutankhamun shaped a century / Christina Riggs -- Tutankhamun: Excavating the archive / Richard Bruce Parkinson, editor -- A Short History of Tomb-Raiding: The epic hunt for Egypt’s treasures / Maria Golia -- The Adventurous Life of Amelia B. Edwards: Egyptologist, novelist, activist / Margaret C. Jones -- A Thousand Miles Up the Nile / Amelia B. Edwards, Introduction by Carl Graves and Anna Garnett.
Stephen Brumwell. No end of a lesson: Did the redcoats ever learn from their mistakes? Review of: The Wandering Army: The campaigns that transformed the British way of war / Huw J. Davies.
Ian F.W. Beckett. Britain’s forgotten army: The Indian soldiers who fought for the Empire. Review of: True to Their Salt: Indian soldiers and the British Empire / Ravindra Rathee.
Lauro Martines. Venice preserv’d: An anecdotal history of the maritime city. Review of: La Serenissima: The story of Venice / Jonathan Keates.
Jonathan Buckley. Last delight: A portrait of grief after a long and happy marriage. Review of: Tell Me Good Things: On love, death and marriage / James Runcie.
James Cook. Fathers and sons: The difficulties – and agonies – of being a parent. Review of Raising Raffi: A book about fatherhood (for people who would never read such a book) / Jack Gessen -- Jack and Me: How NOT to live after loss / Cosmo Landesman -- Tales from the Fatherland: Two dads, one adoption and the meaning of parenthood / Ben Fergusson.
Tristram Hunt. The people’s university: How Birkbeck College opened higher education to the workers. Review of: Birkbeck: 200 years of radical learning for working people / Joanna Bourke.
Libby Purves. The old rules: Lady Glenconner’s experience of domestic abuse. Whatever Next? Lessons from an Unexpected Life / Anne Glenconner,
In Brief Review of: Of Boys and Men: Why the modern male is struggling, why it matters, and what to do about it / Richard V. Reeves.
In Brief Review of: Mussolini in Myth and Memory: The first totalitarian dictator / Paul Corner.
Literature & Language
J.S. Barnes. The marvels of the world: The ‘alternative belief system’ of a superhero universe. Review of 3 items in the Penguin Classics Marvel Collection: The Amazing Spider Man Penguin Classics Marvel Collection / Stan Lee and Steve Ditko -- Captain America Penguin Marvel Classics Collection / Jack Kirby, Joe Simon, Stan Lee et al -- Black Panther / Don McGregor, Rich BuCKLer.
Ian Sansom. The wizard returns: A ‘funny’ and ‘disgusting’ history of the comic books industry. Review of: Illuminations / Alan Moore.
Norma Clarke. Horribly good: Samuel Richardson’s attempt to interest readers in a Christian hero. Review of: Sir Charles Grandison / Samuel Richardson, Edited by E. Derek Taylor, Melvyn New and Elizabeth Kraft (3,000 pages!)
Craig Raine. Say it for the simile: In defence of a crowd-pleasing poetic device. (Essay)
In Brief Review of: The Rest Is Slander / Thomas Bernhard, translated by Douglas Robertson.
In Brief Review of: Et tu Brute?: The Best Latin Lines Ever / Harry Mount and John Davie.
In Brief Review of: Rivall Friendship / Bridget Manningham; edited by Jean R. Brink.
Arts
Declan Ryan. Seeds of optimism: Nick Cave on religion, grief and ‘making the world a better place’. Review of: Faith, Hope, and Carnage / Nick Cave and Séan O'Hagan.
Simone Gubler. Wrong but romantic: How immorality affects our attitudes to artists and their work. Review of: Drawing the Line: What to do with the work of immoral artists from museums to the movies / Erich Hatala Matthes.
Breeze Barrington. Out of the picture: Redressing the canon’s male bias. Review of: The Story of Art Without Men / Katy Hessel.
Rebecca Birrell. Portrait of a woman: An imagined correspondence between two painters. Review of: Letters to Gwen John / Celia Paul.
Larry Wolff. Viva the divas!: Renée Fleming, Kelli O’Hara and Joyce DiDonato star in an opera based on Michael Cunningham’s novel The Hours. Review of: The Hours: Metropolitan Opera, New York, until December 15. Live transmission in various cinemas, December 10 / Kevin Puts.
Clare Saxby. Buried by the Blast: A pioneering female vorticist emerges from Wyndham Lewis’s shadow. Review of the exhibition Helen Saunders, Modernist Rebel: Courtauld Gallery, until January 29, 2023.
In Brief Review of: Pre-raphaelites in the Spirit World: The séance diary of William Michael Rossetti / J. B. Bullen, Rosalind White, Lenore A. Beaky, editors.
Philosophy
Cheryl Misak. A life lived well, probably: Was John Venn the missing link in analytic philosophy?. Review of: John Venn: A Life in Logic / Lukas M. Verburgt.
Science and Technology
Sharon Ann Holgate. To infinity and beyond: A theoretical physicist’s guide to numbers very small and very large. Review of: Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them / Antonio Padilla.
Katie Hafner. Taming the beast: The women who ushered in ‘the birth of the Information Age’. Review of: Proving Ground: The untold story of the six women who programmed the world’s first modern computer / Kathy Kleiman.
Jennie Erin Smith. The ascent of the Huxleys: How ‘Darwin’s bulldog’ sired a line of scientific communicators. Review of: An Intimate History of Evolution: The story of the Huxley family / Alison Bashford (American title: The Huxleys: an intimate history of Evolution)
History, Politics & Society
Michael Press. Show stopper: The 100th anniversary of the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb. Review of: Treasured: How Tutankhamun shaped a century / Christina Riggs -- Tutankhamun: Excavating the archive / Richard Bruce Parkinson, editor -- A Short History of Tomb-Raiding: The epic hunt for Egypt’s treasures / Maria Golia -- The Adventurous Life of Amelia B. Edwards: Egyptologist, novelist, activist / Margaret C. Jones -- A Thousand Miles Up the Nile / Amelia B. Edwards, Introduction by Carl Graves and Anna Garnett.
Stephen Brumwell. No end of a lesson: Did the redcoats ever learn from their mistakes? Review of: The Wandering Army: The campaigns that transformed the British way of war / Huw J. Davies.
Ian F.W. Beckett. Britain’s forgotten army: The Indian soldiers who fought for the Empire. Review of: True to Their Salt: Indian soldiers and the British Empire / Ravindra Rathee.
Lauro Martines. Venice preserv’d: An anecdotal history of the maritime city. Review of: La Serenissima: The story of Venice / Jonathan Keates.
Jonathan Buckley. Last delight: A portrait of grief after a long and happy marriage. Review of: Tell Me Good Things: On love, death and marriage / James Runcie.
James Cook. Fathers and sons: The difficulties – and agonies – of being a parent. Review of Raising Raffi: A book about fatherhood (for people who would never read such a book) / Jack Gessen -- Jack and Me: How NOT to live after loss / Cosmo Landesman -- Tales from the Fatherland: Two dads, one adoption and the meaning of parenthood / Ben Fergusson.
Tristram Hunt. The people’s university: How Birkbeck College opened higher education to the workers. Review of: Birkbeck: 200 years of radical learning for working people / Joanna Bourke.
Libby Purves. The old rules: Lady Glenconner’s experience of domestic abuse. Whatever Next? Lessons from an Unexpected Life / Anne Glenconner,
In Brief Review of: Of Boys and Men: Why the modern male is struggling, why it matters, and what to do about it / Richard V. Reeves.
In Brief Review of: Mussolini in Myth and Memory: The first totalitarian dictator / Paul Corner.
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Public Books Editorial Staff. Public Books, 12/07/2022: Public Picks 2022.
Disabilities of the Color Line: Redressing Antiblackness from Slavery to the Present / Dennis Tyler -- The Longcut / Emily Hall -- On Not Knowing: How to Love and Other Essays / Emily Ogden -- Psychoanalysis in a Plague Year / Donald Moss -- The World We Make / N.K. Jemisin -- We Slaves of Suriname / Anton de Kom -- More Fiya: A New Collection of Black British Poetry / edited by Kayo Chingonyi -- Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation / Camonghe Felix -- Rickey: The Life and Legend of An American Original / Howard Bryant -- Loserville: How Professional Sports Remade Atlanta—and How Atlanta Remade Professional Sports / Clayton Trutor -- There’s a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life / Jafari S. Allen -- The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity / David Graeber and David Wengrow -- A Brief History of Equality / Thomas Piketty -- Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History / Laura Ypi -- The English Understand Wool / Helen DeWitt -- Identitti: A Novel / Mithu Sanyal -- A Primer for Teaching Digital History: Ten Design Principles / Jennifer Guiliano -- Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color / Lorgia Garcia Peña -- Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want / Ruha Benjamin .
Disabilities of the Color Line: Redressing Antiblackness from Slavery to the Present / Dennis Tyler -- The Longcut / Emily Hall -- On Not Knowing: How to Love and Other Essays / Emily Ogden -- Psychoanalysis in a Plague Year / Donald Moss -- The World We Make / N.K. Jemisin -- We Slaves of Suriname / Anton de Kom -- More Fiya: A New Collection of Black British Poetry / edited by Kayo Chingonyi -- Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation / Camonghe Felix -- Rickey: The Life and Legend of An American Original / Howard Bryant -- Loserville: How Professional Sports Remade Atlanta—and How Atlanta Remade Professional Sports / Clayton Trutor -- There’s a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life / Jafari S. Allen -- The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity / David Graeber and David Wengrow -- A Brief History of Equality / Thomas Piketty -- Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History / Laura Ypi -- The English Understand Wool / Helen DeWitt -- Identitti: A Novel / Mithu Sanyal -- A Primer for Teaching Digital History: Ten Design Principles / Jennifer Guiliano -- Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color / Lorgia Garcia Peña -- Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want / Ruha Benjamin .
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James Wood. New Yorker, 12/07/2022: Cormac McCarthy Peers Into the Abyss. On McCarthy's The Passenger and Stella Maris.
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New Yorker, updated to 12/07/2022: The Best Books of 2022. Originally posted 10/26. Links to fuller coverage at this site.
Afterlives / Abdulrazak Gurnah -- An Immense World / Ed Yong -- Bad Mexicans / Kelly Lytle Hernández -- The Book of Goose / Yiyun Li -- The Books of Jacob / Olga Tokarczuk, translated from the Polish by Jennifer Croft -- Checkout 19 / Claire-Louise Bennett -- Chilean Poet / Alejandro Zambra, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell -- Constructing a Nervous System / Margo Jefferson -- Continuous Creation: Last Poems / Les Murray -- Customs: Poems / Somaz Sharif -- G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century / Beverky Gage -- Getting Lost / Annie Ernaux, translated from the French by Alison L. Strayer -- The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories / Jamil Jan Kochai -- The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness / Meghan O’Rourke -- The Last White Man: a novel / Mohsin Hamid -- Lessons: a novel / Ian McEwan -- Magnificent Rebels: the first romantics and the invention of the self / Andrea Wulf -- The Rabbit Hutch: a novel / Tess Gunty -- The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams / Stacy Schiff -- The Song of the Cell: an Exploration of Medicine and the new human / Siddhartha Mukherjee -- Stay True: a memoir / Hua Hsu -- Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the stories that make us / Rachel Aviv -- Trust / Hernan Diaz -- We Don’t Know Ourselves: a personal history of Modern Ireland / Fintan O’Toole.
Afterlives / Abdulrazak Gurnah -- An Immense World / Ed Yong -- Bad Mexicans / Kelly Lytle Hernández -- The Book of Goose / Yiyun Li -- The Books of Jacob / Olga Tokarczuk, translated from the Polish by Jennifer Croft -- Checkout 19 / Claire-Louise Bennett -- Chilean Poet / Alejandro Zambra, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell -- Constructing a Nervous System / Margo Jefferson -- Continuous Creation: Last Poems / Les Murray -- Customs: Poems / Somaz Sharif -- G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century / Beverky Gage -- Getting Lost / Annie Ernaux, translated from the French by Alison L. Strayer -- The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories / Jamil Jan Kochai -- The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness / Meghan O’Rourke -- The Last White Man: a novel / Mohsin Hamid -- Lessons: a novel / Ian McEwan -- Magnificent Rebels: the first romantics and the invention of the self / Andrea Wulf -- The Rabbit Hutch: a novel / Tess Gunty -- The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams / Stacy Schiff -- The Song of the Cell: an Exploration of Medicine and the new human / Siddhartha Mukherjee -- Stay True: a memoir / Hua Hsu -- Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the stories that make us / Rachel Aviv -- Trust / Hernan Diaz -- We Don’t Know Ourselves: a personal history of Modern Ireland / Fintan O’Toole.
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Hey, why not? The New Yorker list addendum ("Also recommended") to its best books for 2022 list:
A Heart That Works / Rob Delaney -- In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss / Amy Bloom -- Life Is Everywhere: a novel / Lucy Ives -- Hollywood: The Oral History / Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson -- Everything the Light Touches: a novel / Janice Pariat -- Beyond Measure: the hidden history of measurement from cubits to quantum constants / James Vincent -- How to Speak Whale: a voyage into the future of animal communication / Tom Mustill -- James Purdy: Life of a contrarian writer / Michael Snyder -- Cocoon / Zhang Yueran, translated from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang -- A Left-Handed Woman: Essays / Judith Thurman -- Ted Kennedy: A Life / John A. Farrell -- Cheap Land Colorado: Off-gridders at America's Edge / Ted Conover -- Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History / Kristina R. Gaddy -- The Backstreets: a novel from Xinjiang / Perhat Tursun, translated from the Uyghur by Darren Byler -- The Magic Kingdom: a novel / Russell Banks (about the South Florida Shaker Settlement New Bethany) -- The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution / Alison Bashford The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida / Shehan Karunatilaka -- Finale: Late Conversations with Stephen Sondheim / D.T. Max -- The Escape Artist: the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world / Jonathan Freedland -- Shirley Hazzard: a writing life / Brigitta Olubas -- Botticelli's Secret: the lost drawings and the rediscovery of the Renaissance / Joseph Luzzi.
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A Heart That Works / Rob Delaney -- In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss / Amy Bloom -- Life Is Everywhere: a novel / Lucy Ives -- Hollywood: The Oral History / Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson -- Everything the Light Touches: a novel / Janice Pariat -- Beyond Measure: the hidden history of measurement from cubits to quantum constants / James Vincent -- How to Speak Whale: a voyage into the future of animal communication / Tom Mustill -- James Purdy: Life of a contrarian writer / Michael Snyder -- Cocoon / Zhang Yueran, translated from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang -- A Left-Handed Woman: Essays / Judith Thurman -- Ted Kennedy: A Life / John A. Farrell -- Cheap Land Colorado: Off-gridders at America's Edge / Ted Conover -- Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History / Kristina R. Gaddy -- The Backstreets: a novel from Xinjiang / Perhat Tursun, translated from the Uyghur by Darren Byler -- The Magic Kingdom: a novel / Russell Banks (about the South Florida Shaker Settlement New Bethany) -- The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution / Alison Bashford The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida / Shehan Karunatilaka -- Finale: Late Conversations with Stephen Sondheim / D.T. Max -- The Escape Artist: the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world / Jonathan Freedland -- Shirley Hazzard: a writing life / Brigitta Olubas -- Botticelli's Secret: the lost drawings and the rediscovery of the Renaissance / Joseph Luzzi.
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New Yorker "Also recommendeds for 2022" continued:
Septology / Jon Fosse, translated from the Norwegian by Damion Searls -- A Shiver in the Leaves / Luther Hughes -- Suzuki: the man & his dream to teach the children of the world / Eri Hotta -- Indigenous Continent: the epic contest for North America / Pekka Hämäläinen -- Metamorphoses / Ovid, translated by Stephanie McCarter -- Chip War: the fight for the world's most critical technology / Chris Miller -- Power Failure: the rise and fall of an American icon / William D. Cohan -- When We Were Sisters: a novel / Fatimah Asghar -- Stroller / Amanda Parrish Morgan -- Diaghilev’s Empire: How the Ballets russes enthralled the world / Rupert Christiansen -- Solenoid / Mircea Cartarescu, translated from the Romanian by Sean Cotter -- The Hero of This Book / Elizabeth McCracken -- Properties of Thirst / Marianne Wiggins -- The Philosophy of Modern Song / Bob Dylan -- Arthur Miller: American Witness / John Lahr -- Mr. B.: George Balanchine's 20th century / Jeniffer Homans -- The Other Side of Prospect: a story of violence, injustice, and the American city / Nicholas Davidoff -- The Beloved Vision: a history of nineteenth century music / Stephen Walsh -- Nights of Plague / Orhan Pamuk, translated by Ekin Oklap -- American Midnight: the Great War, a violent peace, and democracy's forgotten crisis / Adam Hochschild -- Kiki Man Ray: Art, love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris / Mark Braude.
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Septology / Jon Fosse, translated from the Norwegian by Damion Searls -- A Shiver in the Leaves / Luther Hughes -- Suzuki: the man & his dream to teach the children of the world / Eri Hotta -- Indigenous Continent: the epic contest for North America / Pekka Hämäläinen -- Metamorphoses / Ovid, translated by Stephanie McCarter -- Chip War: the fight for the world's most critical technology / Chris Miller -- Power Failure: the rise and fall of an American icon / William D. Cohan -- When We Were Sisters: a novel / Fatimah Asghar -- Stroller / Amanda Parrish Morgan -- Diaghilev’s Empire: How the Ballets russes enthralled the world / Rupert Christiansen -- Solenoid / Mircea Cartarescu, translated from the Romanian by Sean Cotter -- The Hero of This Book / Elizabeth McCracken -- Properties of Thirst / Marianne Wiggins -- The Philosophy of Modern Song / Bob Dylan -- Arthur Miller: American Witness / John Lahr -- Mr. B.: George Balanchine's 20th century / Jeniffer Homans -- The Other Side of Prospect: a story of violence, injustice, and the American city / Nicholas Davidoff -- The Beloved Vision: a history of nineteenth century music / Stephen Walsh -- Nights of Plague / Orhan Pamuk, translated by Ekin Oklap -- American Midnight: the Great War, a violent peace, and democracy's forgotten crisis / Adam Hochschild -- Kiki Man Ray: Art, love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris / Mark Braude.
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Continuing with additional Also recommendeds for 2022 from the New Yorker.
Haven: a novel / Emma Donaghue -- Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies / Maddie Mortimer -- The Joy of Quitting / Keiler Roberts -- I Love(ish) New York City / Ali Solomon -- The Birdcatcher / Gayl Jones -- The Black Period: on personhood, race, and origin / Hafizah Augustus Geter -- Master of the Two Left Feet: Morris Hirshfield rediscovered / Richard Meyer -- Listening for Ghosts / David Rabe -- Liberation Day: stories / George Saunders -- Marigold and Rose: a fiction / Louise Glück -- The Slowworm’s Song / Andrew Miller -- Bridge to the Sun: the secret role of the Japanese Americans who fought in the Pacific in World War II / Bruce Henderson -- The Chaos Machine: the inside story of how social media rewired our minds and our world / Max Fisher -- Some of Them Will Carry Me / Giada Scodellaro -- Love & Vermin / Will McPhail (cartoons) -- Dinosaurs: a novel / Lydia Millet -- The betrothed / Alessandro Manzoni, translated from the Italian by Michael F. Moore -- Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions: a novel in interlocking stories / Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi -- Barefoot Doctor / Can Xue, translated from the Chinese by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping -- The Portraitist: Frans Hals and his World / Steven Nadler -- By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners / Margaret A. Burnham -- Life is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way / Kieran Setiya.
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Haven: a novel / Emma Donaghue -- Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies / Maddie Mortimer -- The Joy of Quitting / Keiler Roberts -- I Love(ish) New York City / Ali Solomon -- The Birdcatcher / Gayl Jones -- The Black Period: on personhood, race, and origin / Hafizah Augustus Geter -- Master of the Two Left Feet: Morris Hirshfield rediscovered / Richard Meyer -- Listening for Ghosts / David Rabe -- Liberation Day: stories / George Saunders -- Marigold and Rose: a fiction / Louise Glück -- The Slowworm’s Song / Andrew Miller -- Bridge to the Sun: the secret role of the Japanese Americans who fought in the Pacific in World War II / Bruce Henderson -- The Chaos Machine: the inside story of how social media rewired our minds and our world / Max Fisher -- Some of Them Will Carry Me / Giada Scodellaro -- Love & Vermin / Will McPhail (cartoons) -- Dinosaurs: a novel / Lydia Millet -- The betrothed / Alessandro Manzoni, translated from the Italian by Michael F. Moore -- Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions: a novel in interlocking stories / Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi -- Barefoot Doctor / Can Xue, translated from the Chinese by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping -- The Portraitist: Frans Hals and his World / Steven Nadler -- By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners / Margaret A. Burnham -- Life is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way / Kieran Setiya.
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More Also Recommends 2022 from The New Yorker. Why doesn't the New Yorker include subtitles in their bibliographic citations? (So I can copy & paste them instead of typing & corredting my own typos) Some titles proper (as we catalogers would say) can be pretty generic as we all know. In the case of non-fiction, you sometimes can't tell what the book's about sans subtitle.
Case in point: New Yorker: Need to Know. Subtitle not in the citation: World War II and the rise of American intelligence. Anyways, pay attention to the subtitles that weren't there in the New Yorker list:
Need to Know: World War II and the rise of American intelligence / Nicholas Reynolds -- Super-Infinite: the transformations of John Donne / Katherine Rundell -- Sacred Nature: Restoring our Ancient Bond with the Natural World / Karen Armstrong -- Poūkahangatus: poems / Tayi Tibble -- Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America / Dahlia Lithwick -- Fen, Bog & Swamp: a short history of peatland destruction and its role in the climate crisis / Annie Proulx -- The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts, Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound / T.S. Eliot, edited by Valerie Eliot (New Yorker included the subtitle to be spiteful) -- Piet Mondrian: a life / Hans Janssen, translated from the Dutch by Sue McDonnell (New Yorker included "a life") -- Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands / Kate Beaton (New Yorker included the subtitle again for some reason) -- The Divider: Trump in the White House 2017-2021 / Peter Baker and Susan Glasser (but now New Yorker leaves out the subtitle ... political meddling??) -- Giuliani: the rise and tragic fall of America's mayor / Andrew Kirtzman (but on this citation New Yorker has no subtitle which I therefore had to type) -- The Wall / Marlen Haushofer, translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside -- The Serpent Coiled in Naples / Marius Kociejowski (the book could have used a subtitle in this case; it's a travelogue) -- Alive at the End of the World / Saeed Jones (it's poems) -- I Walk Between the Raindrops: stories / T.C. Boyle -- Bliss Montage: stories / Ling Ma -- Two Nurses, Smoking: stories / David Means -- The Storm Is Here: an American Crucible / Luke Mogelson -- Lucy by the Sea: a novel / Elizabeth Strout -- Less is Lost / Andrew Sean Greer -- The Furrows / Namwali Serpell -- To the last be human / Jorie Graham.
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Case in point: New Yorker: Need to Know. Subtitle not in the citation: World War II and the rise of American intelligence. Anyways, pay attention to the subtitles that weren't there in the New Yorker list:
Need to Know: World War II and the rise of American intelligence / Nicholas Reynolds -- Super-Infinite: the transformations of John Donne / Katherine Rundell -- Sacred Nature: Restoring our Ancient Bond with the Natural World / Karen Armstrong -- Poūkahangatus: poems / Tayi Tibble -- Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America / Dahlia Lithwick -- Fen, Bog & Swamp: a short history of peatland destruction and its role in the climate crisis / Annie Proulx -- The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts, Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound / T.S. Eliot, edited by Valerie Eliot (New Yorker included the subtitle to be spiteful) -- Piet Mondrian: a life / Hans Janssen, translated from the Dutch by Sue McDonnell (New Yorker included "a life") -- Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands / Kate Beaton (New Yorker included the subtitle again for some reason) -- The Divider: Trump in the White House 2017-2021 / Peter Baker and Susan Glasser (but now New Yorker leaves out the subtitle ... political meddling??) -- Giuliani: the rise and tragic fall of America's mayor / Andrew Kirtzman (but on this citation New Yorker has no subtitle which I therefore had to type) -- The Wall / Marlen Haushofer, translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside -- The Serpent Coiled in Naples / Marius Kociejowski (the book could have used a subtitle in this case; it's a travelogue) -- Alive at the End of the World / Saeed Jones (it's poems) -- I Walk Between the Raindrops: stories / T.C. Boyle -- Bliss Montage: stories / Ling Ma -- Two Nurses, Smoking: stories / David Means -- The Storm Is Here: an American Crucible / Luke Mogelson -- Lucy by the Sea: a novel / Elizabeth Strout -- Less is Lost / Andrew Sean Greer -- The Furrows / Namwali Serpell -- To the last be human / Jorie Graham.
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Addtional New Yorker recommendations for 2022 #5; subtitles usually supplied.
Kick the Latch / Kathryn Scanlan -- Fathers and Children / van Turgenev, translated from the Russian by Nicolas Pasternak Slater and Maya Slater -- If I Survive You / Jonathan Escoffery -- One Beautiful Spring Day / Jim Woodring (graphic novel) -- Diary of a Void: a novel / Emi Yagi, translated from the Japanese by David Boyd & Lucy North -- One Person, One Vote: a surprising history of gerrymandering in America / Nick Seabrook -- Laboratories Against Democracy: How national parties transformed state politics / Jacob Grumbach -- No Land in Sight: poems / Charles Simic -- Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy / Damien Lewis -- Last Letter to a Reader / Gerald Murnane (New Yorker adds "and other stories" for this collection of essays) -- The Last Resort: a chronicle of paradise, profit, and peril at the beach / Sarah Stodola -- An Honest Living / Dwyer Murphy ("Set amid New York’s rare-book trade, this slow-burning début crime novel is also an atmospheric homage to the film “Chinatown.” - should have been the subtitle) -- Brown Neon / Raquel Gutiérrez (essays) -- Girls They Write Songs About / Carlene Bauer -- All That Moves Us: Life Lessons from a Pediatric Neurosurgeon / Jay Wellons: New Yorker subtitle in the book icon: "a pediatric neurosurgeon, his young patients, and their stories of grace and resilence" -- Bitter Orange Tree / Jokha Alharthi -- Resistance: the underground war against Hitler, 1939-1945 / Halik Kochanski (New Yorker omits subtitle) -- Chinatown / Thuận, translated from the Vietnamese by Nguyễn An Lý (immigrant experience in France) -- Paul Laurence Dunbar: the life and times of a caged bird / Gene Andrew Jarrett -- Salka Valka / Halldór Laxness, translated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton -- Pig Years / Ellyn Gaydos -- One’s Company / Ashley Hutson -- Nightcrawling: a novel / Leila Mottley -- I Used to Live Here Once: the Haunted Life of Jean Rhys / Miranda Seymour (another New Yorker subtitle omission).
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Kick the Latch / Kathryn Scanlan -- Fathers and Children / van Turgenev, translated from the Russian by Nicolas Pasternak Slater and Maya Slater -- If I Survive You / Jonathan Escoffery -- One Beautiful Spring Day / Jim Woodring (graphic novel) -- Diary of a Void: a novel / Emi Yagi, translated from the Japanese by David Boyd & Lucy North -- One Person, One Vote: a surprising history of gerrymandering in America / Nick Seabrook -- Laboratories Against Democracy: How national parties transformed state politics / Jacob Grumbach -- No Land in Sight: poems / Charles Simic -- Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy / Damien Lewis -- Last Letter to a Reader / Gerald Murnane (New Yorker adds "and other stories" for this collection of essays) -- The Last Resort: a chronicle of paradise, profit, and peril at the beach / Sarah Stodola -- An Honest Living / Dwyer Murphy ("Set amid New York’s rare-book trade, this slow-burning début crime novel is also an atmospheric homage to the film “Chinatown.” - should have been the subtitle) -- Brown Neon / Raquel Gutiérrez (essays) -- Girls They Write Songs About / Carlene Bauer -- All That Moves Us: Life Lessons from a Pediatric Neurosurgeon / Jay Wellons: New Yorker subtitle in the book icon: "a pediatric neurosurgeon, his young patients, and their stories of grace and resilence" -- Bitter Orange Tree / Jokha Alharthi -- Resistance: the underground war against Hitler, 1939-1945 / Halik Kochanski (New Yorker omits subtitle) -- Chinatown / Thuận, translated from the Vietnamese by Nguyễn An Lý (immigrant experience in France) -- Paul Laurence Dunbar: the life and times of a caged bird / Gene Andrew Jarrett -- Salka Valka / Halldór Laxness, translated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton -- Pig Years / Ellyn Gaydos -- One’s Company / Ashley Hutson -- Nightcrawling: a novel / Leila Mottley -- I Used to Live Here Once: the Haunted Life of Jean Rhys / Miranda Seymour (another New Yorker subtitle omission).
should be done by 2023 ...
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Posting #6 of New Yorker Also Recommends for 2022:
Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence / Ken Auletta -- Picasso's War: How Modern Art Came to America / Hugh Eakin -- Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet As We Know It / Kaitlyn Tiffany -- Drawn Together: Illustrated True Love Stories / Olivia de Recat -- Horse: a novel / Geraldine Brooks -- The Pope at War: the secret history of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler / David I. Ketzer -- Geography Is Destiny: Britain and the World: a 10,000 Year History / Ian Morris -- Lapvona: a novel / Ottessa Moshfegh -- New and Selected Stories / Cristina Rivera Garza, translated from the Spanish by Sarah Booker, Lisa Dillman, Francisca González Arias and Alex Ross -- A Trail of Crab Tracks: a novel / Patrice Nganang, translated from the French by Amy Baram Reid -- Nevada: a novel / Imogen Binnie -- Rogues: true stories of grifters, rebels, and crooks / Patrick Radden Keefe -- The Hangman and His Wife: the life and death of Reinhard Heydrich / Nancy Dougherty -- Keats: a brief life in nine poems and one epitaph / Lucasta Miller -- Imaginary Languages: myths, utopias, fantasies, illusions, and linguistic fictions / Marina Yaguello, translated from the French by Erik Butler -- Fire Island: a century in the life of an American paradise / Jack Parlett.
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Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence / Ken Auletta -- Picasso's War: How Modern Art Came to America / Hugh Eakin -- Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet As We Know It / Kaitlyn Tiffany -- Drawn Together: Illustrated True Love Stories / Olivia de Recat -- Horse: a novel / Geraldine Brooks -- The Pope at War: the secret history of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler / David I. Ketzer -- Geography Is Destiny: Britain and the World: a 10,000 Year History / Ian Morris -- Lapvona: a novel / Ottessa Moshfegh -- New and Selected Stories / Cristina Rivera Garza, translated from the Spanish by Sarah Booker, Lisa Dillman, Francisca González Arias and Alex Ross -- A Trail of Crab Tracks: a novel / Patrice Nganang, translated from the French by Amy Baram Reid -- Nevada: a novel / Imogen Binnie -- Rogues: true stories of grifters, rebels, and crooks / Patrick Radden Keefe -- The Hangman and His Wife: the life and death of Reinhard Heydrich / Nancy Dougherty -- Keats: a brief life in nine poems and one epitaph / Lucasta Miller -- Imaginary Languages: myths, utopias, fantasies, illusions, and linguistic fictions / Marina Yaguello, translated from the French by Erik Butler -- Fire Island: a century in the life of an American paradise / Jack Parlett.
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Posting #7 of New Yorker Also Recommends. The New Yorker 2022 Recommends list includes links to reviews of some of the highlighted books, many of which I have managed to miss. Further research.
Yield: the journal of an artist / Anne Truitt -- The Twilight World / Werner Herzog (a "lightly fictionalized" novel about a "Japanese lieutenant Hiroo Onoda emerged from hiding, in 1974, after fighting the Second World War for twenty-nine years") -- Tracy Flick Can’t Win / Tom Perrotta (no idea why the LT touchstone algorithm isn't working on this one when there are 176 members when last checked) -- Six walks: in the footsteps of Henry David Thoreau / Ben Shattuck -- School Days: a novel / Jonathan Galassi -- Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life / Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman (about: Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch) -- Adriatic: a concert of civilizations at the end of the modern age / Robert D. Kaplan -- Avalon: a novel / Nell Zink -- Love Marriage: a novel / Monica Ali -- Fight Like Hell: the untold history of American labor / Kim Kelly -- Stepping Back from the Ledge: a daughter's search for truth and renewal / Laura Trujillo -- Acts of Service / Lilian Fishman (fiction) -- Time Shelter: a novel / Georgi Gospodinov, translated from the Bulgarian by Angela Rodel -- The Shores of Bohemia: a Cape Cod story 1910-1960 / John Taylor Williams -- Two Wheels Good: the history and mystery of the bicycle / Jody Rosen -- What’s Good: notes on rap and language / Daniel Levin Becker -- Spin Dictators: the changing face of tyranny in the 21st century / Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman.
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Yield: the journal of an artist / Anne Truitt -- The Twilight World / Werner Herzog (a "lightly fictionalized" novel about a "Japanese lieutenant Hiroo Onoda emerged from hiding, in 1974, after fighting the Second World War for twenty-nine years") -- Tracy Flick Can’t Win / Tom Perrotta (no idea why the LT touchstone algorithm isn't working on this one when there are 176 members when last checked) -- Six walks: in the footsteps of Henry David Thoreau / Ben Shattuck -- School Days: a novel / Jonathan Galassi -- Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life / Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman (about: Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch) -- Adriatic: a concert of civilizations at the end of the modern age / Robert D. Kaplan -- Avalon: a novel / Nell Zink -- Love Marriage: a novel / Monica Ali -- Fight Like Hell: the untold history of American labor / Kim Kelly -- Stepping Back from the Ledge: a daughter's search for truth and renewal / Laura Trujillo -- Acts of Service / Lilian Fishman (fiction) -- Time Shelter: a novel / Georgi Gospodinov, translated from the Bulgarian by Angela Rodel -- The Shores of Bohemia: a Cape Cod story 1910-1960 / John Taylor Williams -- Two Wheels Good: the history and mystery of the bicycle / Jody Rosen -- What’s Good: notes on rap and language / Daniel Levin Becker -- Spin Dictators: the changing face of tyranny in the 21st century / Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman.
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Posting #8 of New Yorker Also Recommends for 2022.
The Letters of Thom Gunn / Thom Gunn -- The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: a graying American looks back at his suburban boyhood and wonders what the hell happened / Bill McKibben (almost sympathetic to New Yorker policy of leaving out the subtitle) -- The Last Days of Roger Federer: and other endings / Geoff Dyer -- A Sister’s Story / Donatella Di Pietrantonio, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein -- Life on the Rocks: building a future for coral reefs / Juli Berwald -- Who Killed Jane Stanford?: a Gilded Age tale of murder, deceit, spirits, and the birth of a university / Richard White (does White or McKibben get the subtitle prize?) -- The Revenge of Power: how autocrats are reinventing politics for the 21st century / Moisés Naím -- Everything Abridged: stories / Dennard Dayle -- Either/Or / Elif Batuman -- Rouge Street: three novellas / Shuang Xuetao, translated from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang -- Dress Code: unlocking fashion from the new look to millennial pink / Véronique Hyland -- Journeys to Heaven and Hell: tours of the afterlife in the early Christian tradition / Bart D. Ehrman -- Little Rabbit / Alyssa Songsiridej -- Essential Labor: mothering as social change / Angela Garbes -- Private Notebooks 1914-1916 / Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated from the German by Marjorie Perloff -- Paradais / Fernanda Melchor, translated from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes -- Ancestor Trouble: a reckoning and a reconciliation / Maud Newton -- In the Early Times: a life reframed / Tad Friend.
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The Letters of Thom Gunn / Thom Gunn -- The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: a graying American looks back at his suburban boyhood and wonders what the hell happened / Bill McKibben (almost sympathetic to New Yorker policy of leaving out the subtitle) -- The Last Days of Roger Federer: and other endings / Geoff Dyer -- A Sister’s Story / Donatella Di Pietrantonio, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein -- Life on the Rocks: building a future for coral reefs / Juli Berwald -- Who Killed Jane Stanford?: a Gilded Age tale of murder, deceit, spirits, and the birth of a university / Richard White (does White or McKibben get the subtitle prize?) -- The Revenge of Power: how autocrats are reinventing politics for the 21st century / Moisés Naím -- Everything Abridged: stories / Dennard Dayle -- Either/Or / Elif Batuman -- Rouge Street: three novellas / Shuang Xuetao, translated from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang -- Dress Code: unlocking fashion from the new look to millennial pink / Véronique Hyland -- Journeys to Heaven and Hell: tours of the afterlife in the early Christian tradition / Bart D. Ehrman -- Little Rabbit / Alyssa Songsiridej -- Essential Labor: mothering as social change / Angela Garbes -- Private Notebooks 1914-1916 / Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated from the German by Marjorie Perloff -- Paradais / Fernanda Melchor, translated from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes -- Ancestor Trouble: a reckoning and a reconciliation / Maud Newton -- In the Early Times: a life reframed / Tad Friend.
more to come
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Posting #9 of New Yorker Also Recommends for 2022.
Eleutheria / Allegra Hyde -- Vagabonds!: a novel / Eloghosa Osunde -- Serenade: a Balanchine story / Toni Bentley "In addition to providing a wealth of ballet lore, trivia, and insightful interpretation, Bentley is not afraid to get technical; she describes steps, combinations, entrances, and exits from the perspective of the corps." -- Activities of Daily Living: a novel / Lisa Hsiao Chen -- Homesickness / Colin Barrett -- I’m More Dateable than a Plate of Refried Beans: and other romantic observations / Ginny Hogan (6 members but no touchstone, LT) -- The Premonitions Bureau: a true account of a death foretold / Sam Knight -- La Nijinska: choreographer of the modern / Lynn Garafola -- How Strange a Season: fiction / Megan Mayhew Bergman -- Glory / NoViolet Bulawayo -- Didn’t We Almost Have It All: in defense of Whitney Houston / Gerrick Kennedy -- Grey Bees / Andrey Kurkov, translated from the Ukrainian by Boris Dralyuk -- Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: the journals of Alice Walker / Alice Walker, edited by Valerie Boyd -- The Trees Witness Everything / Victoria Chang (poems) -- Making History: the storytellers who shaped the past / Richard Cohen -- Winslow Homer: American passage / William R. Cross (New Yorker essay by Claudia Roth Pierpont: Race, War, and Winslow Homer -- Africa’s Struggle for Its Art: history of a postcolonial defeat / Bénédicte Savoy, translated from the German by Susanne Meyer-Abich -- The Genesis Machine: the quest to rewrite life in the age of synthetic biology / Amy Webb and Andrew Hessel.
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Eleutheria / Allegra Hyde -- Vagabonds!: a novel / Eloghosa Osunde -- Serenade: a Balanchine story / Toni Bentley "In addition to providing a wealth of ballet lore, trivia, and insightful interpretation, Bentley is not afraid to get technical; she describes steps, combinations, entrances, and exits from the perspective of the corps." -- Activities of Daily Living: a novel / Lisa Hsiao Chen -- Homesickness / Colin Barrett -- I’m More Dateable than a Plate of Refried Beans: and other romantic observations / Ginny Hogan (6 members but no touchstone, LT) -- The Premonitions Bureau: a true account of a death foretold / Sam Knight -- La Nijinska: choreographer of the modern / Lynn Garafola -- How Strange a Season: fiction / Megan Mayhew Bergman -- Glory / NoViolet Bulawayo -- Didn’t We Almost Have It All: in defense of Whitney Houston / Gerrick Kennedy -- Grey Bees / Andrey Kurkov, translated from the Ukrainian by Boris Dralyuk -- Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: the journals of Alice Walker / Alice Walker, edited by Valerie Boyd -- The Trees Witness Everything / Victoria Chang (poems) -- Making History: the storytellers who shaped the past / Richard Cohen -- Winslow Homer: American passage / William R. Cross (New Yorker essay by Claudia Roth Pierpont: Race, War, and Winslow Homer -- Africa’s Struggle for Its Art: history of a postcolonial defeat / Bénédicte Savoy, translated from the German by Susanne Meyer-Abich -- The Genesis Machine: the quest to rewrite life in the age of synthetic biology / Amy Webb and Andrew Hessel.
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Posting #10 of New Yorker Also Recommends for 2022.
Woman, Eating: a novel / Claire Kohda (vampires) -- Whole Earth: the many lives of Stewart Brand / John Markoff -- Mercy Street: a novel / Jennifer Haigh ("this novel revolves around a counsellor at an abortion clinic") -- Let There Be Light: the real story of Her creation / Liana Finck (graphic novel "the Book of Genesis with God as a woman") -- The Believer: encounters with the beginning, the end, and our place in the middle / Sarah Krasnostein ("account of ghost hunters, death doulas, six-day creationists, U.F.O. investigators") -- The Pages: a novel / Hugo Hamilton ("The narrator of this timely mystery is a sentient book—a first edition of “Rebellion” by Joseph Roth...") -- Portrait of an Unknown Lady / María Gainza, translated from the Spanish by Thomas Bunstead ("a young auction-house employee turned art critic narrates her obsessive quest to find and understand a notorious art forger") -- The Subplot: what China is reading and why it matters / Megan Walsh -- A Childhood: the biography of a place / Harry Crews -- Animal Person: stories / Alexander MacLeod -- The Candy House / Jennifer Egan -- Riverman: An American Odyssey / Ben McGrath ("the life and the disappearance of Dick Conant, a long-distance canoeist, whose boat was found washed up in North Carolina with no one in it") -- My Fourth Time, We Drowned: seeking refuge on the world's deadliest migration route / Sally Hayden Run and Hide: a novel / Pankaj Mishrah ("An examination of “rising India” that casts a critical eye on its self-made men")
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Woman, Eating: a novel / Claire Kohda (vampires) -- Whole Earth: the many lives of Stewart Brand / John Markoff -- Mercy Street: a novel / Jennifer Haigh ("this novel revolves around a counsellor at an abortion clinic") -- Let There Be Light: the real story of Her creation / Liana Finck (graphic novel "the Book of Genesis with God as a woman") -- The Believer: encounters with the beginning, the end, and our place in the middle / Sarah Krasnostein ("account of ghost hunters, death doulas, six-day creationists, U.F.O. investigators") -- The Pages: a novel / Hugo Hamilton ("The narrator of this timely mystery is a sentient book—a first edition of “Rebellion” by Joseph Roth...") -- Portrait of an Unknown Lady / María Gainza, translated from the Spanish by Thomas Bunstead ("a young auction-house employee turned art critic narrates her obsessive quest to find and understand a notorious art forger") -- The Subplot: what China is reading and why it matters / Megan Walsh -- A Childhood: the biography of a place / Harry Crews -- Animal Person: stories / Alexander MacLeod -- The Candy House / Jennifer Egan -- Riverman: An American Odyssey / Ben McGrath ("the life and the disappearance of Dick Conant, a long-distance canoeist, whose boat was found washed up in North Carolina with no one in it") -- My Fourth Time, We Drowned: seeking refuge on the world's deadliest migration route / Sally Hayden Run and Hide: a novel / Pankaj Mishrah ("An examination of “rising India” that casts a critical eye on its self-made men")
more to come
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Posting #11 of New Yorker Also Recommends for 2022
Dream-Child: a life of Charles Lamb / Eric G. Wilson -- The White Girl: a novel / Tony Birch ("set in a remote Australian town in the nineteen-sixties, centers on an Aborigine woman, Odette, and her granddaughter, whose unusually light complexion draws the interest of a police officer intent on exercising the state’s legal guardianship of Indigenous children.") -- Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People to Launder Money, Commit Crimes and Get Away with Anything / Oliver Bullough (New Yorker list left off the subtitle again) -- Aurelia, Aurélia: a memoir / Kathryn Davis ("a well-known novelist reflects on the death of her husband, Eric, from cancer") -- Lucky Breaks / Yevgenia Belorusets, translated from the Russian by Eugene Ostashevsky (short stories that "probe the experiences of women from the Donbas region, many of whom fled the separatist conflict that erupted in 2014 and now live as refugees in Kyiv") -- Otherlands: a journey through earth's extinct worlds / Thomas Halliday -- Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: the reporters who took on a world at war / Deborah Cohen -- Let’s Get Physical: how women discovered exercise and reshaped the world / Danielle Freedman -- Every Good Boy Does Fine: a love story in music lessons / Jeremy Denk -- Sweat: A History of Exercise / Bill Hayes (New Yorker chose to include the subtitle) -- Defenestrate / Renée Branum (" riffs gently on the historical Defenestrations of Prague") -- Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the struggle for equality / Tomiko Brown-Nagin -- The Naked Don’t Fear the Water: an underground journey with Afghan refugees / Matthieu Aikins -- Be Pregnant: an illustrated companion for moms-to-be / Eugenia Viti -- The Trials of Harry S. Truman / Jeffrey Frank -- Foreverland: on the divine tedium of marriage / Heather Havrilesky.
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Dream-Child: a life of Charles Lamb / Eric G. Wilson -- The White Girl: a novel / Tony Birch ("set in a remote Australian town in the nineteen-sixties, centers on an Aborigine woman, Odette, and her granddaughter, whose unusually light complexion draws the interest of a police officer intent on exercising the state’s legal guardianship of Indigenous children.") -- Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People to Launder Money, Commit Crimes and Get Away with Anything / Oliver Bullough (New Yorker list left off the subtitle again) -- Aurelia, Aurélia: a memoir / Kathryn Davis ("a well-known novelist reflects on the death of her husband, Eric, from cancer") -- Lucky Breaks / Yevgenia Belorusets, translated from the Russian by Eugene Ostashevsky (short stories that "probe the experiences of women from the Donbas region, many of whom fled the separatist conflict that erupted in 2014 and now live as refugees in Kyiv") -- Otherlands: a journey through earth's extinct worlds / Thomas Halliday -- Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: the reporters who took on a world at war / Deborah Cohen -- Let’s Get Physical: how women discovered exercise and reshaped the world / Danielle Freedman -- Every Good Boy Does Fine: a love story in music lessons / Jeremy Denk -- Sweat: A History of Exercise / Bill Hayes (New Yorker chose to include the subtitle) -- Defenestrate / Renée Branum (" riffs gently on the historical Defenestrations of Prague") -- Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the struggle for equality / Tomiko Brown-Nagin -- The Naked Don’t Fear the Water: an underground journey with Afghan refugees / Matthieu Aikins -- Be Pregnant: an illustrated companion for moms-to-be / Eugenia Viti -- The Trials of Harry S. Truman / Jeffrey Frank -- Foreverland: on the divine tedium of marriage / Heather Havrilesky.
I shall go on
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Posting #12 of New Yorker Also Recommends for 2022
The Door-Man / Peter M. Wheelwright (truly weird plot that took a long paragraph to summarize) -- Jena 1800: the republic of free spirits / Peter Neumann, translated from the German by Shelley Frisch (sounds like a companion to the Andrea Wulf book at >119 featherbear: ) -- The Hummingbird: a novel / Sandro Veronesi, translated from the Italian by Elena Pala -- Born of Lakes and Plains: mixed-descent peoples and the making of the American West / Anne F. Hyde -- The Turning Point: 1851-a year that changed Charles Dickens and the world / Robert Douglas-Fairhurst -- What's So Funny?: a cartoonist's memoir / David Sipress -- Sex and the Single Panda: the revolting pursuit of love in the animal kingdom / Dahlia Gallin Ramirez (not sure why NY categorizes as fiction) -- White Lies: the double life of Walter F. White and America's darkest secret / A.J. Baime -- The Torqued Man: a novel / Peter Mann (spy novel) -- The Founders: the story of Paypal and the entrepreneurs who shaped Silicon Valley / Jimmy Soni -- Free Love: a novel / Tessa Hadley -- Florine Stettheimer: a biography / Barbara Bloemink -- Scattered All Over the Earth / Yoko Tawada, translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani ("Tawada’s novel imagines a world in which Japan has disappeared") -- American Shtetl: the making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic village in Upstate New York / Nomi M. Stolzenberg and David N. Myers -- Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama: a memoir / Bob Odenkirk -- Rebels Against the Raj: Western fighters for India's freedom / Ramachandra Guha.
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The Door-Man / Peter M. Wheelwright (truly weird plot that took a long paragraph to summarize) -- Jena 1800: the republic of free spirits / Peter Neumann, translated from the German by Shelley Frisch (sounds like a companion to the Andrea Wulf book at >119 featherbear: ) -- The Hummingbird: a novel / Sandro Veronesi, translated from the Italian by Elena Pala -- Born of Lakes and Plains: mixed-descent peoples and the making of the American West / Anne F. Hyde -- The Turning Point: 1851-a year that changed Charles Dickens and the world / Robert Douglas-Fairhurst -- What's So Funny?: a cartoonist's memoir / David Sipress -- Sex and the Single Panda: the revolting pursuit of love in the animal kingdom / Dahlia Gallin Ramirez (not sure why NY categorizes as fiction) -- White Lies: the double life of Walter F. White and America's darkest secret / A.J. Baime -- The Torqued Man: a novel / Peter Mann (spy novel) -- The Founders: the story of Paypal and the entrepreneurs who shaped Silicon Valley / Jimmy Soni -- Free Love: a novel / Tessa Hadley -- Florine Stettheimer: a biography / Barbara Bloemink -- Scattered All Over the Earth / Yoko Tawada, translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani ("Tawada’s novel imagines a world in which Japan has disappeared") -- American Shtetl: the making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic village in Upstate New York / Nomi M. Stolzenberg and David N. Myers -- Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama: a memoir / Bob Odenkirk -- Rebels Against the Raj: Western fighters for India's freedom / Ramachandra Guha.
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Posting #13 of New Yorker Also Recommends for 2022
Eating to Extinction: the world's rarest foods and why we need them / Dan Saladino -- Strangers I Know / Claudia Durastanti, translated from the Italian by Elizabeth Harris (NY places in fiction category but also says "Blending fiction, essay, and memoir, this narrative migrates from the Italian American neighborhood of Bensonhurst to rural southern Italy and contemporary London ...") -- You Don’t Know Us Negroes: and other essays / Zora Neale Hurston -- Black Cloud Rising: a novel / David Wright Faladé ("novel is about Richard Etheridge, the son of an enslaved woman and her master, who joins an all-Black regiment during the American Civil War and takes on the Confederacy") -- Index, a History of the: a bookish adventure from Medieval manuscripts to the Digital Age / Dennis Duncan -- Putting the Rabbit in the Hat: a memoir / Brian Cox -- The Great Mrs. Elias: a novel based on a true story / Barbara Chase Riboud ("Using hitherto overlooked documents, this novel reconstructs the life of Hannah Elias, who was born in poverty in Philadelphia in 1865 but became, at the turn of the century, one of the wealthiest Black women in the country.") -- Last Resort: a novel / Andrew Lipstein -- Pure Colour: a novel / Sheila Heit ("an explicitly mystical novel about the creation of art and the creation of the universe") -- Cold Enough for Snow / Jessica Au ("Au’s narrator keeps prodding her mother to open up; her mother resists.") -- All the Flowers Kneeling / Paul Tran (poems) -- The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act / Isaac Butler -- Home/Land: a memoir of departure and return / Rebecca Mead (}chronicles her wrenching decision to leave New York, where she lived for decades, and return to her native England") -- Very Cold People: a novel / Sarah Manguso ("Ruthie’s halting narration and lack of affect suggest a girl caught within a net of pain; the task of the book is to unmask each node in the net, moving suspensefully inward to unearth the threats the town has ushered out of sight.")
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Eating to Extinction: the world's rarest foods and why we need them / Dan Saladino -- Strangers I Know / Claudia Durastanti, translated from the Italian by Elizabeth Harris (NY places in fiction category but also says "Blending fiction, essay, and memoir, this narrative migrates from the Italian American neighborhood of Bensonhurst to rural southern Italy and contemporary London ...") -- You Don’t Know Us Negroes: and other essays / Zora Neale Hurston -- Black Cloud Rising: a novel / David Wright Faladé ("novel is about Richard Etheridge, the son of an enslaved woman and her master, who joins an all-Black regiment during the American Civil War and takes on the Confederacy") -- Index, a History of the: a bookish adventure from Medieval manuscripts to the Digital Age / Dennis Duncan -- Putting the Rabbit in the Hat: a memoir / Brian Cox -- The Great Mrs. Elias: a novel based on a true story / Barbara Chase Riboud ("Using hitherto overlooked documents, this novel reconstructs the life of Hannah Elias, who was born in poverty in Philadelphia in 1865 but became, at the turn of the century, one of the wealthiest Black women in the country.") -- Last Resort: a novel / Andrew Lipstein -- Pure Colour: a novel / Sheila Heit ("an explicitly mystical novel about the creation of art and the creation of the universe") -- Cold Enough for Snow / Jessica Au ("Au’s narrator keeps prodding her mother to open up; her mother resists.") -- All the Flowers Kneeling / Paul Tran (poems) -- The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act / Isaac Butler -- Home/Land: a memoir of departure and return / Rebecca Mead (}chronicles her wrenching decision to leave New York, where she lived for decades, and return to her native England") -- Very Cold People: a novel / Sarah Manguso ("Ruthie’s halting narration and lack of affect suggest a girl caught within a net of pain; the task of the book is to unmask each node in the net, moving suspensefully inward to unearth the threats the town has ushered out of sight.")
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Posting #14 of New Yorker Also Recommends for 2022
The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson: a battle for racial justice during the dawn of the Civil Rights era / Chris Joyner -- Speak Not: Empire, Identity, and the Politics of Language / James Griffiths -- Bibliolepsy: a novel / Gina Apostol ("a young Filipina who becomes obsessed with literature, to the point of illness" during the country's turmoil in the late 1980's) -- The School for Good Mothers: a novel / Jessamine Chan -- Buster Keaton: a filmmaker's life / James Curtis -- Thank You, Mr. Nixon: stories / Gish Jen -- Worn: a people's history of clothing / Sofi Thanhauser -- The Fortune Men: a novel / Nadifa Mohamed ("Set in postwar Cardiff, in the multiethnic docklands of Tiger Bay, this novel retells the life of Mahmood Mattan, a Somali sailor who was executed in 1952, for a murder he did not commit")-- Joan Is Okay: a novel / Weike Wang ("the narrator of this novel, Joan, is a thirty-six-year-old Chinese American I.C.U. doctor") -- The Secret Listener: an ingenue in Mao's court / Yuan-tsung Chen -- The Stars Are Not Yet Bells / Hannah Lillith Assadi ("Through the fog of dementia, Elle, the narrator of this novel, recounts her life on an island off the coast of Georgia during the Second World War") -- South to America: a journey below the Mason-Dixon to understand the soul of a nation / Imani Perry -- The Uninnocent: notes on violence and mercy / Katharine Blake -- The Swank Hotel: a novel / Lucy Corin -- Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the dawn of cinema, and the invention of the twentieth century / Dana Stevens -- Free: a child and a country at the end of history / Lea Ypi (about recent Albanian history) -- It’s Getting Dark: stories / Peter Stamm, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann -- The Urge: our history of addiction / Carl Erik Fisher -- In Case of Emergency / Mahsa Mohebali, translated from the Farsi by Mariam Rahmani (originally published 2008, an addict in Iran) -- I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home / Jami Attenberg -- Lost & Found: a memoir / Kathryn Schulz -- Aftermath / Preti Taneja ("In November, 2019, on the day after the London Bridge knife attacks, the author of this experimental work of nonfiction learned that both the killer and one of his victims were people she knew.") -- Pushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette / Keith Walloo -- The Wedding Party / Liu Xinwu, translated from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang ("Set from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. on a single December day in 1982, this novel introduces readers to the boisterous milieu of a siheyuan, one of Beijing’s traditional multifamily courtyard residences, via the story of the Xue family’s wedding banquet.") -- The Women I Love: a novel / Francesco Pacifico, translated from the Italian by Elizabeth Harris.
The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson: a battle for racial justice during the dawn of the Civil Rights era / Chris Joyner -- Speak Not: Empire, Identity, and the Politics of Language / James Griffiths -- Bibliolepsy: a novel / Gina Apostol ("a young Filipina who becomes obsessed with literature, to the point of illness" during the country's turmoil in the late 1980's) -- The School for Good Mothers: a novel / Jessamine Chan -- Buster Keaton: a filmmaker's life / James Curtis -- Thank You, Mr. Nixon: stories / Gish Jen -- Worn: a people's history of clothing / Sofi Thanhauser -- The Fortune Men: a novel / Nadifa Mohamed ("Set in postwar Cardiff, in the multiethnic docklands of Tiger Bay, this novel retells the life of Mahmood Mattan, a Somali sailor who was executed in 1952, for a murder he did not commit")-- Joan Is Okay: a novel / Weike Wang ("the narrator of this novel, Joan, is a thirty-six-year-old Chinese American I.C.U. doctor") -- The Secret Listener: an ingenue in Mao's court / Yuan-tsung Chen -- The Stars Are Not Yet Bells / Hannah Lillith Assadi ("Through the fog of dementia, Elle, the narrator of this novel, recounts her life on an island off the coast of Georgia during the Second World War") -- South to America: a journey below the Mason-Dixon to understand the soul of a nation / Imani Perry -- The Uninnocent: notes on violence and mercy / Katharine Blake -- The Swank Hotel: a novel / Lucy Corin -- Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the dawn of cinema, and the invention of the twentieth century / Dana Stevens -- Free: a child and a country at the end of history / Lea Ypi (about recent Albanian history) -- It’s Getting Dark: stories / Peter Stamm, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann -- The Urge: our history of addiction / Carl Erik Fisher -- In Case of Emergency / Mahsa Mohebali, translated from the Farsi by Mariam Rahmani (originally published 2008, an addict in Iran) -- I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home / Jami Attenberg -- Lost & Found: a memoir / Kathryn Schulz -- Aftermath / Preti Taneja ("In November, 2019, on the day after the London Bridge knife attacks, the author of this experimental work of nonfiction learned that both the killer and one of his victims were people she knew.") -- Pushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette / Keith Walloo -- The Wedding Party / Liu Xinwu, translated from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang ("Set from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. on a single December day in 1982, this novel introduces readers to the boisterous milieu of a siheyuan, one of Beijing’s traditional multifamily courtyard residences, via the story of the Xue family’s wedding banquet.") -- The Women I Love: a novel / Francesco Pacifico, translated from the Italian by Elizabeth Harris.
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Two books on the pestiferous:
Elizabeth A. Harris. NYT, 12/06/2022: Is This Elephant Bothering You?. Out and about with Bethany Brookshire, author of Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains.
Jerome Groopman. New Yorker, 12/05/2022 (12/12 print): In Praise of Parasites? Review of: Parasites: The Inside Story / Scott Gardner, Judy Diamond, and Gabor Racz.
Elizabeth A. Harris. NYT, 12/06/2022: Is This Elephant Bothering You?. Out and about with Bethany Brookshire, author of Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains.
Jerome Groopman. New Yorker, 12/05/2022 (12/12 print): In Praise of Parasites? Review of: Parasites: The Inside Story / Scott Gardner, Judy Diamond, and Gabor Racz.
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Alida Becker. NYT, 12/04/2022: The Best Historical Fiction of 2022.
Act of Oblivion / Robert Harris ("the hunt for the Parliamentarians who signed Charles I’s death warrant")
Afterlives / Abdulrazak Gurnah ("strivers, soldiers and simple village souls trying to survive the vicious realities of German East Africa in the early 1900s")
Black Cloud Rising / David Wright Faladé ("son of an enslaved North Carolina woman, ... enlists in the Union Army bearing the name of the white father who owned him")
The Books of Jacob / Olga Tokarczuk ("the world of the controversial 18th-century Eastern European religious leader Jacob Frank, as viewed from a kaleidoscopic variety of perspectives")
Heritage / Miguel Bonnefoy ("a brief, intermittently magic realist account of a French immigrant in Chile whose descendants are unable to break their bonds with his homeland")
The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali / Uxma Aslam Khan ("a British penal colony in the remote Andaman Islands just before and during World War II")
Moth / Melody Razak ("the changing fortunes of a well-intentioned Brahmin family as India and Pakistan are carved from the British Raj")
Nights of Plague / Orhan Pamuk ("Filled with intriguing historical minutiae (both real and invented) and set at the turn of the 20th century on an imaginary island in the eastern Mediterranean")
The Sleeping Car Porter / Suzette Mayr ("a gay Black porter rides the rails in 1920s Canada, coping with a horde of difficult long-haul passengers")
Trust / Hernan Diaz. (not clear from NYT description why this is a historical novel)
Act of Oblivion / Robert Harris ("the hunt for the Parliamentarians who signed Charles I’s death warrant")
Afterlives / Abdulrazak Gurnah ("strivers, soldiers and simple village souls trying to survive the vicious realities of German East Africa in the early 1900s")
Black Cloud Rising / David Wright Faladé ("son of an enslaved North Carolina woman, ... enlists in the Union Army bearing the name of the white father who owned him")
The Books of Jacob / Olga Tokarczuk ("the world of the controversial 18th-century Eastern European religious leader Jacob Frank, as viewed from a kaleidoscopic variety of perspectives")
Heritage / Miguel Bonnefoy ("a brief, intermittently magic realist account of a French immigrant in Chile whose descendants are unable to break their bonds with his homeland")
The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali / Uxma Aslam Khan ("a British penal colony in the remote Andaman Islands just before and during World War II")
Moth / Melody Razak ("the changing fortunes of a well-intentioned Brahmin family as India and Pakistan are carved from the British Raj")
Nights of Plague / Orhan Pamuk ("Filled with intriguing historical minutiae (both real and invented) and set at the turn of the 20th century on an imaginary island in the eastern Mediterranean")
The Sleeping Car Porter / Suzette Mayr ("a gay Black porter rides the rails in 1920s Canada, coping with a horde of difficult long-haul passengers")
Trust / Hernan Diaz. (not clear from NYT description why this is a historical novel)
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"Here are the most notable picture and middle grade books, selected by The Times’s children’s books editor."
Jennifer Krauss. NYT, 12/08/2022: The Best Children’s Books of 2022.
Jennifer Krauss. NYT, 12/08/2022: The Best Children’s Books of 2022.
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Olivia Kan-Sperling. Paris Review, 12/09/2022: At Proust Weekend: The Madeleine Event.
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Sam Adler Bell. Baffler, 12/2022: The Father of All Secrets: John le Carré’s daddy issues.
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Ben Miles. The Guardian (featuring the Observer's obituaries for 2022), 12/10/2022: Hilary Mantel remembered.
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"From Ovid to George Orwell, writers have long been inspired by the natural world. Fifty years after the publication of Watership Down, Katherine Rundell celebrates the authors who have taken a walk on the wild side"
Katherine Rundell. Guardian, 12/10/2022: Stories with teeth: How animal tales help us understand humans.
Katherine Rundell. Guardian, 12/10/2022: Stories with teeth: How animal tales help us understand humans.
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"At the end of a year when murder mysteries rode high in the charts, we ask crime writers to celebrate the best fictional detectives"
John Banville et al. Guardian, 12/10/2022: Guess who? Val McDermid, Ian Rankin, Sophie Hannah and other crime writers reveal their favourite detectives.
John Banville et al. Guardian, 12/10/2022: Guess who? Val McDermid, Ian Rankin, Sophie Hannah and other crime writers reveal their favourite detectives.
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Benjamin Dreyer. WaPo, 12/10/2022: The joy of reading Dickens proves that God blessed us, every one.
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"Now here’s something you don’t come across every day: a mash-up of a Western, a serial-killer mystery and a feminist-inflected tale of life in a bordello."
Maureen Corrigan. WaPo, 12/08/2022: Jane Smiley’s latest is full of surprises, beginning with its premise. Review of: A Dangerous Business: a novel / Jane Smiley.
Maureen Corrigan. WaPo, 12/08/2022: Jane Smiley’s latest is full of surprises, beginning with its premise. Review of: A Dangerous Business: a novel / Jane Smiley.
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Genre recommendations from WaPo:
Charlie Jane Anders. 12/07/2022: This winter, 4 fantasy novels portend doom — but offer delights.
Even Though I Knew the End / C.L. Polk -- Sign Here / Claudia Lux -- The Sunbearer Trials / Aiden Thomas -- The Last Gift of the Master Artists / Ben Okri. "Okri, a Booker Prize-winning novelist, originally published “Last Gift” in 2007 under the title “Starbook” — but now he’s substantially revised it, he says, because critics missed the central role of the Middle Passage and chattel slavery in the narrative"
Michael Dirda. 12/08/2022: 14 mystery books to savor during the long nights of winter.
What Child Is This?: A Sherlock Holmes Christmas Adventure Bonnie MacBird -- Fully Dressed and in His Right Mind / Michael Fessler ("the scarce 1935 novel has been reissued by Stark House Press in its Staccato Crime imprint with a biographical introduction by David Rachels") -- 3 American Mystery Classics reprints: The Bigger They Come / Erle Stanley Gardner (aka A.A. Fair), The Spanish Cape Mystery / Ellery Queen, and The Album / Mary Roberts Rinehart -- Golden Age Locked Room Mysteries edited by Otto Penzler -- Death and the Conjurer / Tom Mead -- Shadow Voices: 300 years of Irish Genre Fiction / edited by John Connolly -- Guilty Creatures: A Menagerie of Mysteries / edited by Martin Edwards (stories with animals) -- Blood & Ink: The Scandalous Jazz Age Double-Murder That Hooked America on True Crime / Joe Pompeo -- American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America’s Jack the Ripper / Daniel Stashower.
Dirdin admits he hasn't read, but is looking forward to reading: Room to Swing / Ed Lacy (a reprint of a novel featuring "the Black private eye Toussaint Moore that won the 1958 Edgar for best mystery of the year") -- Constant Hearses and Other Revolutionary Mysteries / Edward D. Hoch, edited and introduced by Brian Skupin ("13 impossible crimes solved by Gen. George Washington’s special agent Alexander Swift, followed by five investigated by the Golden Age detective Gideon Parrot") -- Death and Taxes / David Dodge ("originally published in 1941 and now reissued by Bruin Books with an introduction by Randal S. Brandt" by the author of To Catch a Thief).
Charlie Jane Anders. 12/07/2022: This winter, 4 fantasy novels portend doom — but offer delights.
Even Though I Knew the End / C.L. Polk -- Sign Here / Claudia Lux -- The Sunbearer Trials / Aiden Thomas -- The Last Gift of the Master Artists / Ben Okri. "Okri, a Booker Prize-winning novelist, originally published “Last Gift” in 2007 under the title “Starbook” — but now he’s substantially revised it, he says, because critics missed the central role of the Middle Passage and chattel slavery in the narrative"
Michael Dirda. 12/08/2022: 14 mystery books to savor during the long nights of winter.
What Child Is This?: A Sherlock Holmes Christmas Adventure Bonnie MacBird -- Fully Dressed and in His Right Mind / Michael Fessler ("the scarce 1935 novel has been reissued by Stark House Press in its Staccato Crime imprint with a biographical introduction by David Rachels") -- 3 American Mystery Classics reprints: The Bigger They Come / Erle Stanley Gardner (aka A.A. Fair), The Spanish Cape Mystery / Ellery Queen, and The Album / Mary Roberts Rinehart -- Golden Age Locked Room Mysteries edited by Otto Penzler -- Death and the Conjurer / Tom Mead -- Shadow Voices: 300 years of Irish Genre Fiction / edited by John Connolly -- Guilty Creatures: A Menagerie of Mysteries / edited by Martin Edwards (stories with animals) -- Blood & Ink: The Scandalous Jazz Age Double-Murder That Hooked America on True Crime / Joe Pompeo -- American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America’s Jack the Ripper / Daniel Stashower.
Dirdin admits he hasn't read, but is looking forward to reading: Room to Swing / Ed Lacy (a reprint of a novel featuring "the Black private eye Toussaint Moore that won the 1958 Edgar for best mystery of the year") -- Constant Hearses and Other Revolutionary Mysteries / Edward D. Hoch, edited and introduced by Brian Skupin ("13 impossible crimes solved by Gen. George Washington’s special agent Alexander Swift, followed by five investigated by the Golden Age detective Gideon Parrot") -- Death and Taxes / David Dodge ("originally published in 1941 and now reissued by Bruin Books with an introduction by Randal S. Brandt" by the author of To Catch a Thief).
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"I’ve been teaching English for 12 years, and I’m astounded by what ChatGPT can produce."
Daniel Herman. The Atlantic, 12/09/2022: The End of High-School English.
Jay Kaspian Kang. New Yorker, 12/09/2022: Could an A.I. Chatbot Rewrite My Novel?
Rebecca Hailwell. Vox, 12/07/2022: AI is finally good at stuff, and that’s a problem.
Daniel Herman. The Atlantic, 12/09/2022: The End of High-School English.
Jay Kaspian Kang. New Yorker, 12/09/2022: Could an A.I. Chatbot Rewrite My Novel?
Rebecca Hailwell. Vox, 12/07/2022: AI is finally good at stuff, and that’s a problem.
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Two from LARB:
Lindsey Carman Williams. 12/10/2022: Ghost Stories Aren’t Dead. Review of 2 anthologies: Even in the Grave / edited by James Chambers & Carol Gyzander -- Other Terrors: an inclusive anthology / edited by Vince A. Liaguno & Rena Mason. (for some reason, editors Chambers & Liaguno are not listed in the LARB citations)
Declan Ryan. 12/09/2022: A Down-and-Out but Amusing Character. Song Noir: Tom Waits and the Spirit of Los Angeles / Alex Harvey.
Lindsey Carman Williams. 12/10/2022: Ghost Stories Aren’t Dead. Review of 2 anthologies: Even in the Grave / edited by James Chambers & Carol Gyzander -- Other Terrors: an inclusive anthology / edited by Vince A. Liaguno & Rena Mason. (for some reason, editors Chambers & Liaguno are not listed in the LARB citations)
Declan Ryan. 12/09/2022: A Down-and-Out but Amusing Character. Song Noir: Tom Waits and the Spirit of Los Angeles / Alex Harvey.
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Christopher J. Snowdon. Quillette, 12/08/2022: How Do They Know This?. Review of: Bad Data: How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled by Numbers / Georgina Sturge.
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Alison Stine. Salon, 12/10/2022: Books for hard-to-shop-for tweens and teens, from Star Wars and Harley Quinn to gothic horror.
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Following the collapse of the Penguin Random House/Simon & Schuster merger, Markus Dohle steps down.
Elizabeth A. Harris & Alexandra Alter. NYT, 12/09/2022: Penguin Random House C.E.O. Steps Down.
Elizabeth A. Harris & Alexandra Alter. NYT, 12/09/2022: Penguin Random House C.E.O. Steps Down.
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"Authors and Observer critics choose the books they will be giving as gifts this year – and the one they’d like to find in their own stocking"
The Guardian, 12/11/2022: The best books to give as presents this Christmas.
The Guardian, 12/11/2022: The best books to give as presents this Christmas.
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Continuing with the Guardian, best books of 2022, with separate lists for
Best fiction of 2022.
Best children’s and YA books of 2022.
The best crime and thriller books of 2022.
Five of the best science fiction and fantasy books of 2022.
The best memoirs and biographies of 2022.
The best history and politics books of 2022.
Five of the best sport books of 2022.
Best science books of 2022.
The best poetry books of 2022.
The best comics and graphic novels of 2022.
The best music books of 2022.
The best food books of 2022.
Best fiction of 2022.
Best children’s and YA books of 2022.
The best crime and thriller books of 2022.
Five of the best science fiction and fantasy books of 2022.
The best memoirs and biographies of 2022.
The best history and politics books of 2022.
Five of the best sport books of 2022.
Best science books of 2022.
The best poetry books of 2022.
The best comics and graphic novels of 2022.
The best music books of 2022.
The best food books of 2022.
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Aggregator list of best history books, with links to lists of other categories:
Book scrolling, 12/09/2022: The Best History Books of 2022 (A Year-End List Aggregation).
Book scrolling, 12/09/2022: The Best History Books of 2022 (A Year-End List Aggregation).
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"Reflecting on three monumental works of modernism—James Joyce’s Ulysses, T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, and Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus—a hundred years on."
Johanna Winant. Boston Review, 12/07/2022: A Century of Serious Difficulty.
Johanna Winant. Boston Review, 12/07/2022: A Century of Serious Difficulty.
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James Surowiecki. Yale Review, 12/06/2022 (winter 2022 issue): Geoff Dyer: The essayist on not having a career (Interview)
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Constance Grady. Vox, 12/13/2022: Vox’s 16 best books of 2022.
This is more Constance Grady's 16 best books of 2022, but that's OK really.
Anyways, the list isn't too long, so:
Fiction:
When We Were Sisters / Fatimah Asghar -- O Caledonia: a novel / Elspeth Barker -- Either/Or / Elif Batuman -- If I Survive You / Jonathan Escoffery -- Vladimir / Julia May Jonas -- Lessons: a novel / Ian McEwan -- The Whalebone Theatre / Joanna Quinn -- The Furrows / Namwali Serpell -- The Immortal King Rao / Vauhini Vara -- Joan is OK / Weike Wang -- Now Is Not the Time to Panic / Kevin Wilson.
Non-fiction:
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands / Kate Beaton -- The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act / Isaac Butler -- Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers / Mary Rodgers and Jesse Green -- Hotbed: Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club That Sparked Modern Feminism / Joanna Scutts -- Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers / Emma Smith.
This is more Constance Grady's 16 best books of 2022, but that's OK really.
Anyways, the list isn't too long, so:
Fiction:
When We Were Sisters / Fatimah Asghar -- O Caledonia: a novel / Elspeth Barker -- Either/Or / Elif Batuman -- If I Survive You / Jonathan Escoffery -- Vladimir / Julia May Jonas -- Lessons: a novel / Ian McEwan -- The Whalebone Theatre / Joanna Quinn -- The Furrows / Namwali Serpell -- The Immortal King Rao / Vauhini Vara -- Joan is OK / Weike Wang -- Now Is Not the Time to Panic / Kevin Wilson.
Non-fiction:
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands / Kate Beaton -- The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act / Isaac Butler -- Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers / Mary Rodgers and Jesse Green -- Hotbed: Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club That Sparked Modern Feminism / Joanna Scutts -- Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers / Emma Smith.
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The Atlantic has a word:
Gal Beckerman, Ann Hulbert, Jane Yong Kim. The Atlantic, 12/13/2022: Introducing the Atlantic 10: the books that made us think the most this year.
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the making of the American century / Beverly Gage -- Spin Dictators: the changing face of tyranny in the 21st century / Daniel Treisman and Sergei Guriev -- Stay true: a memoir / Hua Hsu -- The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories / Jamil Jan Kochai -- The Consequences: stories / Manuel Muñoz -- We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland / Fintan O'Toole -- My Phantoms / Gwendoline Riley -- The Books of Jacob / Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft -- Under the Skin: the hidden toll of racism on American lives and on the health of the nation / Linda Villarosa -- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: a novel / Gabrielle Zevin.
Gal Beckerman, Ann Hulbert, Jane Yong Kim. The Atlantic, 12/13/2022: Introducing the Atlantic 10: the books that made us think the most this year.
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the making of the American century / Beverly Gage -- Spin Dictators: the changing face of tyranny in the 21st century / Daniel Treisman and Sergei Guriev -- Stay true: a memoir / Hua Hsu -- The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories / Jamil Jan Kochai -- The Consequences: stories / Manuel Muñoz -- We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland / Fintan O'Toole -- My Phantoms / Gwendoline Riley -- The Books of Jacob / Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft -- Under the Skin: the hidden toll of racism on American lives and on the health of the nation / Linda Villarosa -- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: a novel / Gabrielle Zevin.
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New from LARB:
Paul Finkelman. 12/13/2022: The Many Faces of Felix Frankfurter. Review of: Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment / Brad Snyder.
Benjamin Shull. 12/12/2022: The Tang of Herded Men, and Their Smell. On the centennial edition of: The Enormous Room / e. e. cummings.
Richard Eldridge. 12/11/2022: Beyond Liberalism?. Review of: Not Thinking Like a Liberal / Raymond Geuss.
Joshua Hren. 12/11/2022: A Communion of Pathless Solitudes. Review of: The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths, and Their Year of Marvels / Adam Nicolson.
Paul Finkelman. 12/13/2022: The Many Faces of Felix Frankfurter. Review of: Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment / Brad Snyder.
Benjamin Shull. 12/12/2022: The Tang of Herded Men, and Their Smell. On the centennial edition of: The Enormous Room / e. e. cummings.
Richard Eldridge. 12/11/2022: Beyond Liberalism?. Review of: Not Thinking Like a Liberal / Raymond Geuss.
Joshua Hren. 12/11/2022: A Communion of Pathless Solitudes. Review of: The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths, and Their Year of Marvels / Adam Nicolson.
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Cal Flynn. fivebooks.com, 12/13/2022: Award-Winning Novels of 2022.
Booker Prize. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida / Shehan Karunatilaka. Winner of the International Booker Prize went to: Tomb of Sand / Geetanjali Shree, as translated by Daisy Rockwell.
Women's Prize For Fiction. The Book of Form and Emptiness / Ruth Ozeki.
Goldsmiths Prize (for “fiction that breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel form”) to Diego Garcia / Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams.
International Dublin Literary Award. The Art of Losing / Alice Zeniter, translated by Frank Wynne.
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family / Joshua Cohen.
National Book Award for fiction: Rabbit Hutch / Tess Gunty.
National Book Critics Circle Award: The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois / Honorée Fanonne Jeffers.
Governor General’s Literary Award (Canadian). Pure Colour / Shela Heti.
Miles Franklin Award (Australia). Bodies of Light / Jennifer Down.
Australian Prime Minister’s award. Red Heaven / Nicolas Rothwell.
GENRE
Science fiction & fantasy awards:
Arthur C. Clarke Award. Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel / Harry Josephine Giles.
Hugo Award. A Desolation Called Peace / Arkady Martine.
Nebula Award & Locus Award. A Master of Djinn / P Djèlí Clark
World Fantasy Awards. The Jasmine Throne / Tasha Suri.
Mystery, Horror, & Crime awards:
Bram Stoker Award. My Heart Is a Chainsaw / Stephen Graham Jones.
Edgar Allan Poe Award. Five Decembers / James Kestrel.
International Thriller Writers. Razorblade Tears / S.A. Cosby.
Golden Dagger (UK). Sunset Swing / Ray Celestin.
Historical Fiction awards:
Walter Scott Prize. News of the Dead / James Robertson.
ARA Historical Novel Prize (Australia & New Zealand). Corporal Hitler's Pistol / Thomas Keneally.
Romance awards:
Romantic Novelists Association (UK). A Marvellous Light / Freya Marske.
"The Romance Writers of America did not run their Vivian Awards this year."
Booker Prize. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida / Shehan Karunatilaka. Winner of the International Booker Prize went to: Tomb of Sand / Geetanjali Shree, as translated by Daisy Rockwell.
Women's Prize For Fiction. The Book of Form and Emptiness / Ruth Ozeki.
Goldsmiths Prize (for “fiction that breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel form”) to Diego Garcia / Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams.
International Dublin Literary Award. The Art of Losing / Alice Zeniter, translated by Frank Wynne.
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family / Joshua Cohen.
National Book Award for fiction: Rabbit Hutch / Tess Gunty.
National Book Critics Circle Award: The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois / Honorée Fanonne Jeffers.
Governor General’s Literary Award (Canadian). Pure Colour / Shela Heti.
Miles Franklin Award (Australia). Bodies of Light / Jennifer Down.
Australian Prime Minister’s award. Red Heaven / Nicolas Rothwell.
GENRE
Science fiction & fantasy awards:
Arthur C. Clarke Award. Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel / Harry Josephine Giles.
Hugo Award. A Desolation Called Peace / Arkady Martine.
Nebula Award & Locus Award. A Master of Djinn / P Djèlí Clark
World Fantasy Awards. The Jasmine Throne / Tasha Suri.
Mystery, Horror, & Crime awards:
Bram Stoker Award. My Heart Is a Chainsaw / Stephen Graham Jones.
Edgar Allan Poe Award. Five Decembers / James Kestrel.
International Thriller Writers. Razorblade Tears / S.A. Cosby.
Golden Dagger (UK). Sunset Swing / Ray Celestin.
Historical Fiction awards:
Walter Scott Prize. News of the Dead / James Robertson.
ARA Historical Novel Prize (Australia & New Zealand). Corporal Hitler's Pistol / Thomas Keneally.
Romance awards:
Romantic Novelists Association (UK). A Marvellous Light / Freya Marske.
"The Romance Writers of America did not run their Vivian Awards this year."
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Some fivebooks.com end of the year recommendations.
Thea Lenarduzzi. fivebooks.com, 12/12/2022: The best books on Family History.
Jason Furman. fivebooks.com, 12/10/2022: The Best Economics Books of 2022.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom. fivebooks.com, 12/09/2022: The Best China Books of 2022.
Thea Lenarduzzi. fivebooks.com, 12/12/2022: The best books on Family History.
Jason Furman. fivebooks.com, 12/10/2022: The Best Economics Books of 2022.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom. fivebooks.com, 12/09/2022: The Best China Books of 2022.
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Elizabeth A. Harris & Alexandra Alter. NYT, 12/12/2022: A Fast-Growing Network of Conservative Groups Is Fueling a Surge in Book Bans.
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"Whether it’s to themselves, their spouse or their dog, reading aloud is essential to the writing process for these Times reporters."
Sarah Barr. NYT, 12/11/2022: How the Spoken Word Shapes the Written Word.
Sarah Barr. NYT, 12/11/2022: How the Spoken Word Shapes the Written Word.
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"Launched in 1994, the magazine published reviews, essays and interviews, and was an important outlet for book reviewers and for authors."
Kate Dwyer & Elizabeth A. Harris. NYT, 12/12/2022: Bookforum Is Closing, Leaving Ever Fewer Publications Devoted to Books.
David L. Ulin. Los Angeles Times, 12/13/2022: A (hopefully premature) obituary for Bookforum and the magazines that connect us.
Kate Dwyer & Elizabeth A. Harris. NYT, 12/12/2022: Bookforum Is Closing, Leaving Ever Fewer Publications Devoted to Books.
David L. Ulin. Los Angeles Times, 12/13/2022: A (hopefully premature) obituary for Bookforum and the magazines that connect us.
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2 recent stories from The Guardian:
Nadia Khomami. Guardian, 12/14/2022: Ann Cleeves loses laptop containing draft of new book in Shetland blizzard.
Ella Braidwood. Guardian, 12/13/2022: The love boom: why romance novels are the biggest they’ve been for 10 years.
Nadia Khomami. Guardian, 12/14/2022: Ann Cleeves loses laptop containing draft of new book in Shetland blizzard.
Ella Braidwood. Guardian, 12/13/2022: The love boom: why romance novels are the biggest they’ve been for 10 years.
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"From Jennifer Egan’s “The Candy House” to Michael Mann and Meg Gardiner’s “Heat 2,” there was a surge of follow-ups in the book world. What led so many writers back to the well?"
Katy Waldman. New Yorker, 12/13/2022: The Year in Sequels.
Katy Waldman. New Yorker, 12/13/2022: The Year in Sequels.
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Arianna Rebolinni. Vulture, 12/13/2022: The Best Memoirs of 2022.
10. Solito / Javier Zamora.
09. The Man Who Could Move Clouds / Ingrid Rojas Contreras
08. Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School / Kendra James.
07. This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown / Taylor Harris.
06. Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York / Jeremiah Moss.
05. Essential Labor: Mothering As Social Change / Angela Garbes
04. I'm Glad My Mom Died / Jennette McCurdy
03. Lost & Found: a memoir / Kathryn Schulz.
02. Stay True / Hua Hsu
01. Easy Beauty / Chloé Cooper Jones
10. Solito / Javier Zamora.
09. The Man Who Could Move Clouds / Ingrid Rojas Contreras
08. Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School / Kendra James.
07. This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown / Taylor Harris.
06. Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York / Jeremiah Moss.
05. Essential Labor: Mothering As Social Change / Angela Garbes
04. I'm Glad My Mom Died / Jennette McCurdy
03. Lost & Found: a memoir / Kathryn Schulz.
02. Stay True / Hua Hsu
01. Easy Beauty / Chloé Cooper Jones
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"The publishing and media industries have come to epitomize how corporate America has lost the plot." Subscribers only, unfortunately.
Xochitl Gonzalez. The Atlantic, 12/13/2022: But What About the Books?.
Xochitl Gonzalez. The Atlantic, 12/13/2022: But What About the Books?.
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"What Shirley Hazzard’s life can, and can’t, tell us about her fiction."
Lauren Groff. The Atlantic, 12/14/2022: Why Read Literary Biography?
Lauren Groff. The Atlantic, 12/14/2022: Why Read Literary Biography?
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"In both life and work, Evan S. Connell rejected the tidiness of narrative. He focussed, instead, on the details we’d rather ignore."
Max Norman. New Yorker, 12/12/2022: The Man Who Mastered Minor Writing.
Max Norman. New Yorker, 12/12/2022: The Man Who Mastered Minor Writing.
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Favorite articles, mostly though not necessarily book reviews:
LARB, 12/2022: People's Choice Awards: LARB’s Best of 2022.
LARB, 12/2022: People's Choice Awards: LARB’s Best of 2022.
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TLS December 16, 2022|No. 6246
Literature
Christy Edwall. A sea-brooding poet: Meditations on Keats’s poems, and a new account of his last days. Review of: A Greeting of the Spirit: Selected poetry of John Keats with commentaries / Susan J. Wolfson -- Written in Water: Keats’s final journey / Alessandro Gallenzi.
Tom Keymer. Something rotten in the state of England: A satirist of Romantic-era cliché and mock-erudition. Review of: Headlong Hall / Thomas Love Peacock, edited by Nicholas A. Joukovsky -- Melincourt / Thomas Love Peacock, edited by Gary Dyer.
Angus Nicholls. One demigod to another: A new English translation of the work that cemented Goethe’s fame. Review of: Conversations with Goethe / Johann Peter Eckermann, translated by Allan Blunden.
Charlie Louth. Picking the blue flower: A selection of writings by the German Enlightenment poet. Review of: Novalis: Die Poesie des Unendlichen: Dichtungen und Texte des Universalgeistes der Frühromantik / Gabriele Rommel, editor.
Adam Sutcliffe. Unfathomable depths: Roy Jacobsen’s tetralogy (and counting) of life on a remote Norwegian fishing island. Review of: Just a Mother / Roy Jacobsen, translated by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw.
Susie Thomas. Before a funeral: The unhappy friendship of Waguih Ghali and Diana Athill. (Essay)
Arin Keeble. The thin blurred line: A US police procedural shines a harsh light on law enforcement. Review of: Blackwater Falls / Ausma Zehanat Khan.
Bryan Karetnyk. Murder most allusive: Classical references abound in two Japanese detective thrillers. Review of: Death on Gokumon Island / Seishi Yokomizo, translated by Louise Heal Kawai -- Tokyo Express / Seichō Matsumoto, translated by Jesse Kirkwood.
In Brief Review of: Leonardo Sciascia: The man and the writer / Joseph Farrell.
Arts
Robert Potts. Deadpan death sweats: Noah Baumbach tackles Don DeLillo’s postmodern classic. Review of Baumbach's Netflix adaptation of Don DeLillo's White Noise.
Zoe Guttenplan. A gender-fluid time traveller: Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, ever-changing and always the same. Review of Neil Barrett's theatrical adaptation Orlando.
Alice Blackhurst. A life lived backwards: How Annie Ernaux brings home movies into her oeuvre. Review of "'The Super 8 Years,' a sixty-one-minute documentary collaged from intimate, archival family footage shot between 1972 and 1981 by Ernaux’s ex-husband, Philippe Ernaux, directed by her son David Ernaux-Briot and narrated by Ernaux herself, in a new voiceover text that she wrote for the occasion."
In Brief Review of: A Biographical Dictionary of English Architecture, 1540–1640 / Mark Girouard.
Religion
Robert Alter. Putting words in His mouth: A guide to the difficulties of Bible translation. Review of: The Word: On the translation of the Bible / John Barton.
Jan Machielsen. Martyrs to their cause: The clash between Roman Catholics and the powers that be. Review of: Catholics and Treason: Martyrology, memory, and politics in the post-Reformation / Michael Questier.
Theo Hobson. An Anglican state: The ecumenical Christianity of our monarchs has legal limits. Review of: Defenders of the Faith: The British monarchy, religion and the next coronation / Catherine Pepinster.
History, Politics, & Society
Regina Rini. It’s all relative, is it? Is everyone entitled to their own morality? (Essay)
Jonathan Drummon. With the brakes off: Strange tales from the history of cycling. Review of: Two Wheels Good: The history and mystery of the bicycle / Jody Rosen.
Francisco Bethencourt. The view from Lisbon: How Portugal saw the world. Review of: A History of Water: Being an account of a murder, an epic and two visions of global history / Edward Wilson-Lee.
Nigel Saul. All the knightly virtues: A warrior remembered for founding London Charterhouse. Review of: Edward III’S Faithful Knight: Walter Mauny and his legacy / Stephen Porter.
Mathew Lyons. Among the filthy little Britons: An Anglocentric account of our island story. Review of: Small Island: 12 maps that explain the history of Britain / Philip Parker.
Sarah Watling. Hiding in plain sight: How Josephine Baker became a spy for the Allies. Review of: The Flame of Resistance: The untold story of Josephine Baker’s secret war; American title: Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy / Damien Lewis.
Tom Clark. Labour’s long road to power: The opposition’s struggle to create a radical programme. (Essay)
Martin Ivens. Quite contrary: The tale of Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister. Review of: Out of the Blue: The inside story of the unexpected rise and rapid fall of Liz Truss / Harry Cole and James Heale.
In Brief Review of: My Hong Kong / Malcolm Jack.
In Brief Review of: Piccadilly: The Circus at the heart of London / Midge Gillies.
In Brief Review of: Oswald Spengler and the Politics of Decline / Ben Lewis.
In Brief Review of: Stranger in My Own Land: Palestine, Israel and one family’s story of home / Fida Jiryis.
In Brief Review of: Zest: Essays on the art of living / Ian Bamforth.
Literature
Christy Edwall. A sea-brooding poet: Meditations on Keats’s poems, and a new account of his last days. Review of: A Greeting of the Spirit: Selected poetry of John Keats with commentaries / Susan J. Wolfson -- Written in Water: Keats’s final journey / Alessandro Gallenzi.
Tom Keymer. Something rotten in the state of England: A satirist of Romantic-era cliché and mock-erudition. Review of: Headlong Hall / Thomas Love Peacock, edited by Nicholas A. Joukovsky -- Melincourt / Thomas Love Peacock, edited by Gary Dyer.
Angus Nicholls. One demigod to another: A new English translation of the work that cemented Goethe’s fame. Review of: Conversations with Goethe / Johann Peter Eckermann, translated by Allan Blunden.
Charlie Louth. Picking the blue flower: A selection of writings by the German Enlightenment poet. Review of: Novalis: Die Poesie des Unendlichen: Dichtungen und Texte des Universalgeistes der Frühromantik / Gabriele Rommel, editor.
Adam Sutcliffe. Unfathomable depths: Roy Jacobsen’s tetralogy (and counting) of life on a remote Norwegian fishing island. Review of: Just a Mother / Roy Jacobsen, translated by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw.
Susie Thomas. Before a funeral: The unhappy friendship of Waguih Ghali and Diana Athill. (Essay)
Arin Keeble. The thin blurred line: A US police procedural shines a harsh light on law enforcement. Review of: Blackwater Falls / Ausma Zehanat Khan.
Bryan Karetnyk. Murder most allusive: Classical references abound in two Japanese detective thrillers. Review of: Death on Gokumon Island / Seishi Yokomizo, translated by Louise Heal Kawai -- Tokyo Express / Seichō Matsumoto, translated by Jesse Kirkwood.
In Brief Review of: Leonardo Sciascia: The man and the writer / Joseph Farrell.
Arts
Robert Potts. Deadpan death sweats: Noah Baumbach tackles Don DeLillo’s postmodern classic. Review of Baumbach's Netflix adaptation of Don DeLillo's White Noise.
Zoe Guttenplan. A gender-fluid time traveller: Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, ever-changing and always the same. Review of Neil Barrett's theatrical adaptation Orlando.
Alice Blackhurst. A life lived backwards: How Annie Ernaux brings home movies into her oeuvre. Review of "'The Super 8 Years,' a sixty-one-minute documentary collaged from intimate, archival family footage shot between 1972 and 1981 by Ernaux’s ex-husband, Philippe Ernaux, directed by her son David Ernaux-Briot and narrated by Ernaux herself, in a new voiceover text that she wrote for the occasion."
In Brief Review of: A Biographical Dictionary of English Architecture, 1540–1640 / Mark Girouard.
Religion
Robert Alter. Putting words in His mouth: A guide to the difficulties of Bible translation. Review of: The Word: On the translation of the Bible / John Barton.
Jan Machielsen. Martyrs to their cause: The clash between Roman Catholics and the powers that be. Review of: Catholics and Treason: Martyrology, memory, and politics in the post-Reformation / Michael Questier.
Theo Hobson. An Anglican state: The ecumenical Christianity of our monarchs has legal limits. Review of: Defenders of the Faith: The British monarchy, religion and the next coronation / Catherine Pepinster.
History, Politics, & Society
Regina Rini. It’s all relative, is it? Is everyone entitled to their own morality? (Essay)
Jonathan Drummon. With the brakes off: Strange tales from the history of cycling. Review of: Two Wheels Good: The history and mystery of the bicycle / Jody Rosen.
Francisco Bethencourt. The view from Lisbon: How Portugal saw the world. Review of: A History of Water: Being an account of a murder, an epic and two visions of global history / Edward Wilson-Lee.
Nigel Saul. All the knightly virtues: A warrior remembered for founding London Charterhouse. Review of: Edward III’S Faithful Knight: Walter Mauny and his legacy / Stephen Porter.
Mathew Lyons. Among the filthy little Britons: An Anglocentric account of our island story. Review of: Small Island: 12 maps that explain the history of Britain / Philip Parker.
Sarah Watling. Hiding in plain sight: How Josephine Baker became a spy for the Allies. Review of: The Flame of Resistance: The untold story of Josephine Baker’s secret war; American title: Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy / Damien Lewis.
Tom Clark. Labour’s long road to power: The opposition’s struggle to create a radical programme. (Essay)
Martin Ivens. Quite contrary: The tale of Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister. Review of: Out of the Blue: The inside story of the unexpected rise and rapid fall of Liz Truss / Harry Cole and James Heale.
In Brief Review of: My Hong Kong / Malcolm Jack.
In Brief Review of: Piccadilly: The Circus at the heart of London / Midge Gillies.
In Brief Review of: Oswald Spengler and the Politics of Decline / Ben Lewis.
In Brief Review of: Stranger in My Own Land: Palestine, Israel and one family’s story of home / Fida Jiryis.
In Brief Review of: Zest: Essays on the art of living / Ian Bamforth.
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Kevin Riordan. Public Books, 12/15/2022: World Literature Comes Full Circle, 1522–2022. Review of: Around the World in 80 Books: a literary journey / David Damrosch.
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Hugh Ryan. LARB, 12/15/2022: Breaking and Remaking the Trans Memoir. Review of: Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist / Cecilia Gentili.
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More 2022 best ofs can be found at Bookmarks.
Example: The Best Reviewed Mystery and Crime Books of 2022.
Example: The Best Reviewed Mystery and Crime Books of 2022.
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Reviews from Literary Review UK:
Freya Johnston. Prince of Caricatura. Review of: James Gillray: A Revolution in Satire / Tim Clayton.
Carolyne Larrington. I Have Wedded Fyve!. Review of: The Wife of Bath: A Biography / Marion Turner.
Tim Stevens. Small Yet Mighty. Review of: Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology / Chris Miller.
Claire Harman. Modernism in Motion: Katherine Mansfield & the movies. (Essay)
Freya Johnston. Prince of Caricatura. Review of: James Gillray: A Revolution in Satire / Tim Clayton.
Carolyne Larrington. I Have Wedded Fyve!. Review of: The Wife of Bath: A Biography / Marion Turner.
Tim Stevens. Small Yet Mighty. Review of: Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology / Chris Miller.
Claire Harman. Modernism in Motion: Katherine Mansfield & the movies. (Essay)
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Jane Smiley. NYT Book Review By the Book Interview, 12/15/2022: Jane Smiley Wishes Readers Would Embrace More Diverse Books.
How do you organize your books?
"Only by kicking them out of the way so that I won’t trip over them."
How do you organize your books?
"Only by kicking them out of the way so that I won’t trip over them."
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Erin Keane et al. Salon, 12/15/2022: Salon's favorite books of 2022 — fiction and nonfiction.
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"Rescuing the pioneering literary and social critic from the clutches of boring right-wingers and ‘Jews of culture’ on the 100th anniversary of his birth"
Blake Smith. Tablet, 12/15/2022: The Secret Life of Philip Rieff.
Blake Smith. Tablet, 12/15/2022: The Secret Life of Philip Rieff.
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Michael J. Totten. Quillette, 12/17/2022: America’s Forgotten Crisis. Review of: American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis / Adam Hochschild.
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"Robin Miles was looking for stage and screen roles when she began reading books for the blind. She’s become one of the country’s most celebrated narrators."
Daniel A. Gross. New Yorker, 12/16/2022: How a Great Audiobook Narrator Finds Her Voices.
Daniel A. Gross. New Yorker, 12/16/2022: How a Great Audiobook Narrator Finds Her Voices.
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Ilana Masad. The Atlantic, 12/18/2022: Six Classic Books That Live Up to Their Reputation.
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Rebecca Laurence and Lindsay Baker. BBC Culture, 12/13/2022: The 50 best books of the year 2022.
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Kyle Chayka. New Yorker, 12/19/2022: Bookforum and a Bleak Year for Literary Magazines.
David Denby. New Yorker, 12/19/2022: The Making of Norman Mailer.
David Denby. New Yorker, 12/19/2022: The Making of Norman Mailer.
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"How a close group of brilliant friends, in a tiny German university town, laid the foundations of modern consciousness"
Andrea Wulf. Aeon, 12/20/2022: The first Romantics.
Andrea Wulf. Aeon, 12/20/2022: The first Romantics.
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Kevin Mims. Quillette, 12/20/2022: In Memoriam: A tribute to five pop fiction writers we lost in 2022. Jack Higgins, Susie Steiner, Robert Goolrick, John Jay Osborn, Jr., and Nicholas Evans.
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Emily Temple. LitHub, 12/19/2022: The Ultimate Best Books of 2022 List.
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TLS December 23 / 30, 2022|No. 6247/8
Literature & Bibliography
Alan Jenkins. You want it darker: Purgative violence and gruesome comedy in the apprentice prose of Leonard Cohen. Review of: A Ballet of Lepers: A novel and stories / Leonard Cohen.
Alison Kelly. Too wide for cameras: American stories of betrayal, love and revenge. Review of: I Walk Between the Raindrops / T.C. Boyle -- The Consequences: Stories / Manuel Muñoz -- Get ’Em Young, Treat ’Em Tough, Tell ’Em Nothing / Robin McLean.
Hugh Haughton. An Irishman’s earth music: The canonical status of a great poet. Review of: The Poems (1961–2020) / Derek Mahon -- The Adaptations (1975–2020) / Derek Mahon -- Autumn Skies: Writers on poems by Derek Mahon / Peter Fallon, editor.
Declan Kiberd. Ordinary people: An annotated edition of Joyce’s classic by diverse authors. Review of: The Cambridge Centenary ‘ULYSSES’: The 1922 text with essays and notes / James Joyce, edited by Catherine Flynn.
Michael Saler. Tall-tale potentates: How Javier Marías came to be king of Redonda. Review of: Try Not To Be Strange: The curious history of the Kingdom of Redonda / Michael Hingston.
Alexandra Reza. Arresting prose: A leading voice in French poetry introduced to a UK audience. Review of: Tomatoes + Why Doesn't the Left Read Literature? / Nathalie Quintane, translated by Marty Hiatt.
Andrew Gallix. New novel, old master: An influential avant-gardist who contradicted himself. Review of: Robbe-Grillet: L’aventure du Nouveau Roman / Benoît Peeters -- Reinventer le roman: Entretiens inédits / Alain Robbe-Grillet and Benoît Peeters.
Boris Dralyuk. Splinters in their charms: A profound identification with the women of myth. Review of: This Afterlife: Selected poems / A. E. Stallings.
Becca Rothfeld. Where did the pots go?: Tales of domesticity disturbed. Review of: Seven Empty Houses / Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell.
Keith Hopper. Something wasn’t right: An Ulster author with a Swiftian sensibility. Review of: The Last Word: Short stories / Ian Cochrane -- A Streak of Madness / Ian Cochrane.
Dominic Leonard. Words have deep pockets: Deciphering postcolonial England. Review of: England's Green / Zaffar Kunial.
In Brief Review of: The Rabbit Hutch / Tess Gunty.
In Brief Review of: Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts: The phenomenal book / Elaine Treharne.
In Brief Review of: An Admirable Point: A brief history of the exclamation mark! / Florence Hazrat.
In Brief Review of: Losing the Plot / Derek Owusu.
Arts
J.S. Barnes. Ghosts of Christmas present: The dark side of the festive season. Review of the exhibition To Be Read at Dusk: Dickens, ghosts and the supernatural at the Charles Dickens Museum, London, until March 5, 2023 -- the broadcast The Witch Farm on BBC Radio 4 and Sounds -- the performance The Treasure of Abbot Thomas by the Nunkie Theatre Company, December 24, live online.
Lauren Elkin. Diary of a chambermaid: A woman who pursues a lost love affair in disguise. Review of: The Hotel / Sophie Calle -- The Elevator Resides in 501 / Sophie Calle and Jean-Paul Demoule.
The courage to be different: The BBC at 100: reflections on what it has meant, what it is now and which future directions it might take.
Kate Hext. Seven veils, no sex: A pioneering Hollywood production of Salome that baffled the film studios. (Essay on Alla Nazimova's 1922 film)
Science and Technology
Peter Godfrey-Smith. Into the woods: Living like a deer and learning from the birds. Review of: Deer Man: Seven years in the forest / Geoffroy Delorme; translated by Shaun Whiteside -- The Parrot in the Mirror: How evolving to be like birds made us human / Antone Martinho-Truswell.
Terri Apter. Cloak-and-dagger feelings: A therapist challenges the saviour fantasy. Review of: What We Want: A journey through twelve of our deepest desires / Charlotte Fox Weber.
Raymond Tallis. Mind over matter: Neuroscience’s challenge to human freedom. Review of: How the Mind Changed: A human history of our evolving brain / Joseph Jebelli.
Andrew Scull. Life turned upside down: Sketches of people with ‘unsettled minds.’ Review of: Strangers to Ourselves: Stories of unsettled minds / Rachel Aviv.
Culture, Biography
Simon Jenkins. On the road: The fall and rise of the metropolitan street. Review of: Passport to Peckham: Culture and creativity in a London village / Robert Hewison -- No Free Parking: The curious history of London’s Monopoly streets / Nicholas Boys Smith.
Ysenda Maxtone Graham. Using your loaf: How eating came to be accepted in polite society. Review of: English Food: A people’s history / Diane Purkiss.
Lucy Lethbridge. Panackelty, anyone?: The highways and byways of British cooking. Review of: The British Cook: Authentic home cooking recipes from England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland / Ben Mervis.
Nat Segnit. A sock full of oranges: The satirical art of Craig Brown. Review of: Haywire: the best of Craig Brown / Craig Brown.
Libby Purviss. Cut out the caution!: The female journalist who conquered America. Review of: Listen World!: How the intrepid Elsie Robinson became America’s most-read woman / Julia Scheeres and Allison Gilbert.
Julia Bueno. Away from the wards: Adam Kay’s intimate follow-up to This Is Going to Hurt. Review of: Undoctored: The story of a medic who ran out of patients / Adam Kay.
Irina Dumitrescu. Give generously: What makes a good gift?. (Essay)
In Brief Review of: Animal Joy / Nuar Alsadir.
In Brief Review of: Cuba '62 / Richard Hollis and J. S. Tennant.
Literature & Bibliography
Alan Jenkins. You want it darker: Purgative violence and gruesome comedy in the apprentice prose of Leonard Cohen. Review of: A Ballet of Lepers: A novel and stories / Leonard Cohen.
Alison Kelly. Too wide for cameras: American stories of betrayal, love and revenge. Review of: I Walk Between the Raindrops / T.C. Boyle -- The Consequences: Stories / Manuel Muñoz -- Get ’Em Young, Treat ’Em Tough, Tell ’Em Nothing / Robin McLean.
Hugh Haughton. An Irishman’s earth music: The canonical status of a great poet. Review of: The Poems (1961–2020) / Derek Mahon -- The Adaptations (1975–2020) / Derek Mahon -- Autumn Skies: Writers on poems by Derek Mahon / Peter Fallon, editor.
Declan Kiberd. Ordinary people: An annotated edition of Joyce’s classic by diverse authors. Review of: The Cambridge Centenary ‘ULYSSES’: The 1922 text with essays and notes / James Joyce, edited by Catherine Flynn.
Michael Saler. Tall-tale potentates: How Javier Marías came to be king of Redonda. Review of: Try Not To Be Strange: The curious history of the Kingdom of Redonda / Michael Hingston.
Alexandra Reza. Arresting prose: A leading voice in French poetry introduced to a UK audience. Review of: Tomatoes + Why Doesn't the Left Read Literature? / Nathalie Quintane, translated by Marty Hiatt.
Andrew Gallix. New novel, old master: An influential avant-gardist who contradicted himself. Review of: Robbe-Grillet: L’aventure du Nouveau Roman / Benoît Peeters -- Reinventer le roman: Entretiens inédits / Alain Robbe-Grillet and Benoît Peeters.
Boris Dralyuk. Splinters in their charms: A profound identification with the women of myth. Review of: This Afterlife: Selected poems / A. E. Stallings.
Becca Rothfeld. Where did the pots go?: Tales of domesticity disturbed. Review of: Seven Empty Houses / Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell.
Keith Hopper. Something wasn’t right: An Ulster author with a Swiftian sensibility. Review of: The Last Word: Short stories / Ian Cochrane -- A Streak of Madness / Ian Cochrane.
Dominic Leonard. Words have deep pockets: Deciphering postcolonial England. Review of: England's Green / Zaffar Kunial.
In Brief Review of: The Rabbit Hutch / Tess Gunty.
In Brief Review of: Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts: The phenomenal book / Elaine Treharne.
In Brief Review of: An Admirable Point: A brief history of the exclamation mark! / Florence Hazrat.
In Brief Review of: Losing the Plot / Derek Owusu.
Arts
J.S. Barnes. Ghosts of Christmas present: The dark side of the festive season. Review of the exhibition To Be Read at Dusk: Dickens, ghosts and the supernatural at the Charles Dickens Museum, London, until March 5, 2023 -- the broadcast The Witch Farm on BBC Radio 4 and Sounds -- the performance The Treasure of Abbot Thomas by the Nunkie Theatre Company, December 24, live online.
Lauren Elkin. Diary of a chambermaid: A woman who pursues a lost love affair in disguise. Review of: The Hotel / Sophie Calle -- The Elevator Resides in 501 / Sophie Calle and Jean-Paul Demoule.
The courage to be different: The BBC at 100: reflections on what it has meant, what it is now and which future directions it might take.
Kate Hext. Seven veils, no sex: A pioneering Hollywood production of Salome that baffled the film studios. (Essay on Alla Nazimova's 1922 film)
Science and Technology
Peter Godfrey-Smith. Into the woods: Living like a deer and learning from the birds. Review of: Deer Man: Seven years in the forest / Geoffroy Delorme; translated by Shaun Whiteside -- The Parrot in the Mirror: How evolving to be like birds made us human / Antone Martinho-Truswell.
Terri Apter. Cloak-and-dagger feelings: A therapist challenges the saviour fantasy. Review of: What We Want: A journey through twelve of our deepest desires / Charlotte Fox Weber.
Raymond Tallis. Mind over matter: Neuroscience’s challenge to human freedom. Review of: How the Mind Changed: A human history of our evolving brain / Joseph Jebelli.
Andrew Scull. Life turned upside down: Sketches of people with ‘unsettled minds.’ Review of: Strangers to Ourselves: Stories of unsettled minds / Rachel Aviv.
Culture, Biography
Simon Jenkins. On the road: The fall and rise of the metropolitan street. Review of: Passport to Peckham: Culture and creativity in a London village / Robert Hewison -- No Free Parking: The curious history of London’s Monopoly streets / Nicholas Boys Smith.
Ysenda Maxtone Graham. Using your loaf: How eating came to be accepted in polite society. Review of: English Food: A people’s history / Diane Purkiss.
Lucy Lethbridge. Panackelty, anyone?: The highways and byways of British cooking. Review of: The British Cook: Authentic home cooking recipes from England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland / Ben Mervis.
Nat Segnit. A sock full of oranges: The satirical art of Craig Brown. Review of: Haywire: the best of Craig Brown / Craig Brown.
Libby Purviss. Cut out the caution!: The female journalist who conquered America. Review of: Listen World!: How the intrepid Elsie Robinson became America’s most-read woman / Julia Scheeres and Allison Gilbert.
Julia Bueno. Away from the wards: Adam Kay’s intimate follow-up to This Is Going to Hurt. Review of: Undoctored: The story of a medic who ran out of patients / Adam Kay.
Irina Dumitrescu. Give generously: What makes a good gift?. (Essay)
In Brief Review of: Animal Joy / Nuar Alsadir.
In Brief Review of: Cuba '62 / Richard Hollis and J. S. Tennant.
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Matthew Schneier. Vulture, 12/22/2022: Bob Gottlieb Is the Last of the Publishing Giants: The 91-year-old editor waits for his 87-year-old star writer, Robert Caro, to turn in his book.
Bindu Bansinath. Vulture, 12/22/2022: Bookforum Was a Good Magazine: After 28 years, a beloved hub of literary New York closes its doors.
Bindu Bansinath. Vulture, 12/22/2022: Bookforum Was a Good Magazine: After 28 years, a beloved hub of literary New York closes its doors.
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I let my subscription lapse, so here's the list.
Chronicle of Higher Education Review, 12/21/2022: The Best Scholarly Books of 2022.
Rules: A Short History of What We Live By / Lorraine Daston.
The Savage Detectives Reread / David Kurnick.
Imagining the End: Mourning and Ethical Life / Jonathan Lear.
Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success / Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan.
Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America / Saidiya Hartman (republication).
I Want to Keep Smashing Myself Until I Am Whole: An Elias Canetti Reader / Elias Canetti, editor Joshua Cohen.
Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle / Shannen Dee Williams.
Paratexts of the English Bible, 1525-1611 / Debora Shuger.
The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward / Daniel H. Pink.
Dynamic Democracy: Public Opinion, Elections, and Policymaking in the American State / Devin Caughey and Christopher Warshaw.
Broken: The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion / Evelyn Alsultany.
Gambling on Development: Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose / Stefan Dercon.
Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity and Hawaiian Refreshment / Hi’ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart.
Chronicle of Higher Education Review, 12/21/2022: The Best Scholarly Books of 2022.
Rules: A Short History of What We Live By / Lorraine Daston.
The Savage Detectives Reread / David Kurnick.
Imagining the End: Mourning and Ethical Life / Jonathan Lear.
Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success / Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan.
Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America / Saidiya Hartman (republication).
I Want to Keep Smashing Myself Until I Am Whole: An Elias Canetti Reader / Elias Canetti, editor Joshua Cohen.
Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle / Shannen Dee Williams.
Paratexts of the English Bible, 1525-1611 / Debora Shuger.
The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward / Daniel H. Pink.
Dynamic Democracy: Public Opinion, Elections, and Policymaking in the American State / Devin Caughey and Christopher Warshaw.
Broken: The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion / Evelyn Alsultany.
Gambling on Development: Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose / Stefan Dercon.
Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity and Hawaiian Refreshment / Hi’ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart.
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Longreads. Best of 2022. "We’re delighted to share our favorite nonfiction stories of 2022, hand-picked from this year’s editors’ picks. Bookmark this page to read and revisit our entire end-of-year collection, which we’ll publish through December."
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Erik Baker. The Bafffler, 12/22/2022: Reenchanted Science: How did Cormac McCarthy become a shill for libertarian utopianism?
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Karen Heller. WaPo, 12/19/2022: We’re drowning in old books. But getting rid of them is heartbreaking.
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Maureen Dowd. NYT, 12/24/2022: Why Dickens Haunts Us.
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Well, well:
Peyton Thomas. NYT, 12/24/2022: Did the Mother of Young Adult Literature Identify as a Man?
Peyton Thomas. NYT, 12/24/2022: Did the Mother of Young Adult Literature Identify as a Man?
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Recently from LARB:
Aynne Kokas. LARB, 12/27/2022: Transpacific Connections and Competitions. Review of: Hollywood in China: Behind the Scenes of the World’s Largest Movie Market / Ying Zhu -- Like Water: A Cultural History of Bruce Lee / Daryl Joji Maeda.
Addison Richley et al. LARB, 12/25/2022: L.A. Booksellers on Their Favorite Books Read in 2022.
Aynne Kokas. LARB, 12/27/2022: Transpacific Connections and Competitions. Review of: Hollywood in China: Behind the Scenes of the World’s Largest Movie Market / Ying Zhu -- Like Water: A Cultural History of Bruce Lee / Daryl Joji Maeda.
Addison Richley et al. LARB, 12/25/2022: L.A. Booksellers on Their Favorite Books Read in 2022.
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Jessica Pressman. The Conversation, 12/20/2022: Disney’s Black mermaid is no breakthrough – just look at the literary subgenre of Black mermaid fiction.
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"During his long tenure, the seminary’s collection was a primary destination for scholarly inquiry into the history and literature of the Jewish people."
Joseph Berger. NYT, 12/27/2022: Menahem Schmelzer, Jewish Theological Seminary Librarian, Dies at 88.
Joseph Berger. NYT, 12/27/2022: Menahem Schmelzer, Jewish Theological Seminary Librarian, Dies at 88.
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Nélida Piñon, 1937-2022
"Widely regarded as one of her country’s greatest contemporary writers, she was also the first woman elected president of the Brazilian Academy of Letters."
Ana Ionova. NYT, 12/27/2022: Nélida Piñon, Provocative Brazilian Novelist, Is Dead at 85. Author of: The Republic of Dreams.
"Widely regarded as one of her country’s greatest contemporary writers, she was also the first woman elected president of the Brazilian Academy of Letters."
Ana Ionova. NYT, 12/27/2022: Nélida Piñon, Provocative Brazilian Novelist, Is Dead at 85. Author of: The Republic of Dreams.
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"Brent Reidy, the new director of Research Libraries, said he hoped to help democratize the 127-year-old library by reaching a younger generation."
Dan Bilefsky. NYT 12/29/2022: A Music Historian Takes a Top Job at the New York Public Library.
Dan Bilefsky. NYT 12/29/2022: A Music Historian Takes a Top Job at the New York Public Library.
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"Shaun Bythell, owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland, discusses his new book, “Remainders of the Day,” and the highs and lows of his job."
Dennis Duncan. WaPo, 12/29/2022: What’s it like to own a bookstore in our digitized age? Review of: Remainders of the Day. Earlier bookshop memoirs by Shaun Bythell: The Diary of a Bookseller and Confessions of a Bookseller.
Dennis Duncan. WaPo, 12/29/2022: What’s it like to own a bookstore in our digitized age? Review of: Remainders of the Day. Earlier bookshop memoirs by Shaun Bythell: The Diary of a Bookseller and Confessions of a Bookseller.
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Ron Charles. WaPo, 12/29/2022: Deepti Kapoor’s thriller ‘Age of Vice’ starts 2023 with a bang.
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"Literature once filled in archival gaps by saying the unsayable. Now a younger generation is devising new modes of telling the story and finding new stories to tell."
Parul Sehgal. New Yorkers, 12/26/2022: Seventy-five Years After Indian Partition, Who Owns the Narrative?
Parul Sehgal. New Yorkers, 12/26/2022: Seventy-five Years After Indian Partition, Who Owns the Narrative?
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David Waldstreicher. The Atlantic, 12/31/2022: Rethinking the European Conquest of Native Americans. Review of: Indigenous Continent - The Epic Contest For North America / Pekka Hämäläinen.
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The thread will continue with Exploring Books Through Articles, Reviews, Announcements, & Lists, Jan.-Mar.. Articles from the 2022 4th quarter discovered belatedly will be added to the 2022-4 thread; given the ambiguity of online publishing dates, I may post info on a particular article in both 2022-4 and 2023-1. FYI, the New York Review of Books for Jan. 2023 appears online in 2022, but will be posted only in the 2023-1 thread since the contents are lengthy.
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Jean Franco, 1924-2022
Clay Risen. NYT, 12/31/2022. Jean Franco, 98, Pioneering Scholar of Latin American Literature, Dies.
"Through a series of wide-ranging studies, including her landmark book “The Modern Culture of Latin America: Society and the Artist” (1967), Dr. Franco argued that the region’s literature deserved its own sustained focus, a radical idea at a time when most Spanish-language scholarship was still focused on the likes of Miguel de Cervantes and Federico García Lorca."
Clay Risen. NYT, 12/31/2022. Jean Franco, 98, Pioneering Scholar of Latin American Literature, Dies.
"Through a series of wide-ranging studies, including her landmark book “The Modern Culture of Latin America: Society and the Artist” (1967), Dr. Franco argued that the region’s literature deserved its own sustained focus, a radical idea at a time when most Spanish-language scholarship was still focused on the likes of Miguel de Cervantes and Federico García Lorca."
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Nigel Warburton, interviewed by Cal Flynn. fivebooks.com, 12/15/2022: The Best Philosophy Books of 2022.
Warburton recommends (focusing on "public philosophy"): How to Say No: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Cynicism / Diogenes, translator M.D. Usher -- Looking for Theophrastus: travels in search of a lost philosopher / Laura Beatty -- Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy / David J. Chalmers -- The Life Inside: A Memoir of Prison, Family and Philosophy / Andy West -- Thinking to Some Purpose / Susan Stebbing.
He also recommends: How to Be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment / Skye C. Cleary -- Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way / Kieran Setiya -- The Quest for Character: What the Story of Socrates and Alcibiades Teaches Us about Our Search for Good Leaders / Massimo Pigliucci.
Warburton recommends (focusing on "public philosophy"): How to Say No: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Cynicism / Diogenes, translator M.D. Usher -- Looking for Theophrastus: travels in search of a lost philosopher / Laura Beatty -- Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy / David J. Chalmers -- The Life Inside: A Memoir of Prison, Family and Philosophy / Andy West -- Thinking to Some Purpose / Susan Stebbing.
He also recommends: How to Be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment / Skye C. Cleary -- Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way / Kieran Setiya -- The Quest for Character: What the Story of Socrates and Alcibiades Teaches Us about Our Search for Good Leaders / Massimo Pigliucci.
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Joyce Meskis, 1942-2022
Michael S. Rosenwood. WaPo, 01/04/2023: Joyce Meskis, whose Tattered Cover became a destination for book lovers, dies at 80.
Michael S. Rosenwood. WaPo, 01/04/2023: Joyce Meskis, whose Tattered Cover became a destination for book lovers, dies at 80.
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Willard Gaylin, 1925-2022, psychoanalyst & author:
Richard Sandomir. NYT, 01/07/2023: Willard Gaylin, a Pioneer in Bioethics, Is Dead at 97.
His books include: Hatred: The Psychological Descent Into Violence -- The Killing of Bonnie Garland: A Question of Justice
Richard Sandomir. NYT, 01/07/2023: Willard Gaylin, a Pioneer in Bioethics, Is Dead at 97.
His books include: Hatred: The Psychological Descent Into Violence -- The Killing of Bonnie Garland: A Question of Justice
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Joseph M. Keegin. Hedgehog Review, fall 2022: Language for Life: Revisiting the role of poetry in literacy. Review of Instaurations: Essays In and Out of Literature, Pindar to Pound / D.S. Carne-Ross.
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David Bentley Hart. The Lamp, Christmas 2022 issue: How to Write English Prose.
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Emily Temple. LitHub, 12/08/2022: Our 38 Favorite Books of 2022: The Lit Hub Staff Picks the Best Books of the Year.
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