Tag Archives: Book Reviews
Books: The New York Times Book Review – Sept 11, 2022
9 Books to Read About Queen Elizabeth II
Elizabeth, famously reticent during her decades in the public eye, was a source of fascination for many. These books offer a deeper understanding of her life, family and world.
Jennifer Egan and the Goon Squad
Ling Ma’s Surreal Subversions
A Global History of Gender, in All Its Varieties
Kit Heyam’s “Before We Were Trans” spans continents and millenniums to prove that where there is humanity, there is nonconformity.
By MEREDITH TALUSAN
Literary Previews: The Paris Review – Fall 2022
The Paris Review Fall 2022 issue—featuring interviews with Helen Garner and Terrance Hayes, fiction by Sam Pink @sampinkisalive and Nancy Lemann, poetry by Ben Lerner, Stephen Ira @supermattachine, and Diane Seuss @dlseuss art by Louise Lawler, and more.
Previews: BOOKFORUM Magazine – Sep/Oct 2022
Bookforum Magazine – SEP/OCT/NOV 2022
Jane’s World
MOIRA DONEGAN RECONSIDERS A PRE-ROE ABORTION SERVICE IN A POST-ROE ERA
Meditations in an Emergency
LUCY SANTE ON EMMANUEL CARRÈRE’S BOOK OF MEDITATION AND MENTAL BREAKDOWN
Liz Kid
SARAH JAFFE interviews Namwali Serpell
CRITICS AND NOVELISTS on what they’ve been reading
BOOKFORUM CONTRIBUTORS on this season’s notable art books
ERIN SOMERS on fangirls
Books: The New York Times Book Review – Sept 4, 2022
Stephen King’s ‘Fairy Tale’: A Portal to a Fantasy Kingdom
In King’s latest novel, a teenage boy discovers another world beneath a backyard shed.
Why Did Some Cubans Inject Themselves With H.I.V.?
“Sacrificio,” a novel by Ernesto Mestre-Reed, imagines an extreme counterrevolutionary movement during desperate times.
Newly Published, From Lost Worlds to Whale Talk
Cover: New York Review Of Books – Sept 22, 2022
Outdoing Reality
The absurd incursions of the real into the intelligent life of the imagination are central to the Afghan American writer Jamil Jan Kochai’s fiction.
The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories by Jamil Jan Kochai
Xanadu’s Architect
Despite designing over seven hundred buildings, the pioneering female architect Julia Morgan is now best known for a single, extremely eccentric commission: San Simeon, the estate of the legendary newspaper proprietor William Randolph Hearst.
Julia Morgan: An Intimate Biography of the Trailblazing Architect by Victoria Kastner, with photography by Alexander Vertikoff
Julia Morgan: The Road to San Simeon: Visionary Architect of the California Renaissance by Gordon L. Fuglie, Jeffrey Tilman, Karen McNeill, Johanna Kahn, Elizabeth McMillian, Kirby William Brown, and Victoria Kastner
Previews: Times Literary Supplement – Sept 2, 2022
This week’s @TheTLS, featuring Ben Hutchinson on the Jena Set; @misbehavingmonk on his father’s Alzheimer’s; John Lloyd on liberalism; @RohanMaitzen on Maggie O’Farrell; @TomCook24 on Bishop and Heaney; M. C. on Salman Rushdie – and more.
Cover: London Review Of Books – September 8, 2022
Arianne Shahvisi – ‘Sex in the Brain’
Jon Day on Hoardiculture
Colin Burrow: Quote Me!
Helen Thaventhiran: T.S. Eliot’s Alibis
Stefan Collini on the Huxley Inheritance
Previews: Times Literary Supplement – Aug 19, 2022
The summer double issue of The Times Literary Supplement @TheTLS , featuring @YsendaMG on the British abroad; @questingvole on Roald Dahl; poems by John Fuller and Simon Armitage (both titled ‘The Repair Shop’); @RebeccaSpang on cryptocurrencies; @Skye_Cleary on love – and much more
Covers: Claremont Review Of Books – Summer 2022
America First
Angelo Codevilla’s final critique of our ruling class’s corruption… by Carnes Lord
America’s Rise and Fall among Nations: Lessons in Statecraft from John Quincy Adams is an extraordinary book by an extraordinary man. Angelo Codevilla, a senior fellow of the Claremont Institute, died in an automobile accident last year near his northern California vineyard. He was a first-generation immigrant, born in Italy, who shared with so many from a similar background a fierce love for his adopted homeland. A political scientist with far-ranging interests in comparative politics, international relations and strategic studies, and political philosophy, Codevilla also served in the United States government as a diplomat, naval officer, and congressional staffer.
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