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The New York Times Book Review – December 1, 2024

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (December 1, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Unfinished Business’ – “The City and Its Uncertain Walls features all of Haruki Murakami’s signature elements — and his singular voice — in a new version of an old story.

100 Notable Books of 2024

Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

How the World’s Largest Democracy Slid Toward Authoritarianism

“The New India,” by Rahul Bhatia, combines personal history and investigative journalism to account for his country’s turn to militant Hindu nationalism.

What Exactly Is Morning Mist? And Other Questions.

In “The Miraculous From the Material,” the best-selling author Alan Lightman examines the science behind the wonder.

Angela Merkel Tells Us What She Really Thinks

In her memoir, the former German chancellor reflects on her political rise and defends her record as the outlook for her country turns grim.

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The New York Times Book Review – November 17, 2024

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (November 17, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Who’s Johnny?’…

‘Carson the Magnific: Where’s Johnny? The Biography of a TV Host Whose Life Was a Closed Book.

Johnny Carson dominated late-night television for decades, but closely guarded his privacy. Bill Zehme’s biography, “Carson the Magnificent,” tries to break through.ent,’ by Bill Zehme

Combined Print & E-Book Fiction – Best Sellers

Rankings on weekly lists reflect sales for the week ending November 2, 2024.

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Arts Preview: ARTFORUM Magazine – December 2024

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Artforum Magazine (November 15, 2024) – The latest issue features….

THE WRECK

By Tina Rivers Ryan

BOILING POINT

On the art of Ade Darmawan and Timoteus Anggawan Kusno By Hung Duong

The Aspern Papers

Harold Stevenson.

With every odd stacked against it, Venice rises to the surface as Italy’s art capital By Travis Jeppesen

JOSEPH MARIONI (1943–2024)

Joseph Marioni in his studio, New York, ca. 1974–75.

By Michael Fried

Qiu Xiaofei

Qiu Xiaofei

Xavier Hufkens | Rivoli

By Mateus Nunes

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The New York Times Book Review – November 10, 2024

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (November 10, 2024): The latest issue features ‘ Looking For The Promised Land’…

The Writing Tool That Mark Twain, Agatha Christie and James Joyce All Swore By

A new history by Roland Allen uncovers the wealth of ideas and invention hidden in the notebooks of literary luminaries.

Calling All Misfits: When Greenwich Village Conquered the Music Scene

In his latest book, the Rolling Stone writer David Browne tracks three decades of folk, blues, rock and jazz below 14th Street.

In Tumultuous Times, Readers Turn to ‘Healing Fiction’

Cozy, whimsical novels — often featuring magical cats — that have long been popular in Japan and Korea are taking off globally. Fans say they offer comfort during a chaotic time.

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The New York Times Book Review – November 3, 2024

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (November 3, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Recipe For Living’ – In “Be Ready When The Luck Happens”, the TV chef Ina Garten asks, “How easy is that?”. Not very.

6 New Books We Recommend This Week

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ Book Club Conversation Space: García Márquez Memories

Share your memories of reading García Márquez’s books here.

4 Smart, Riveting New Crime Novels

Our columnists on new books by John Banville, Kate Christensen under a pseudonym and more.

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The New York Times Book Review – October 13, 2024

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (October 12, 2024): The latest issue features ‘The Heart of the Matter’

Truly Scary Books for Halloween and Beyond

These terrifying tales by the likes of Stephen King and Shirley Jackson are more than good reads: They’ll freak you out, too.

Evan Gershkovich, U.S. Journalist Imprisoned in Russia, Will Publish a Memoir

The memoir, which will cover his time in prison and Russia’s move toward autocracy, will be published by Crown, an imprint of Penguin Random House.

Han Kang Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

The South Korean author, best known for “The Vegetarian,” is the first writer from her country to receive the prestigious award.

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The New York Times Book Review – Sept. 15, 2024

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (September 15, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Making Art and Selling Out’ = In Danny Senna’s fleet, funny novel “Colored Television”, a struggling writer in a mixed-race family is seduced by the taste of luxury….

Debt Was Supposed to Cure Poverty and Help Pay for College. What Went Wrong?

Three new books examine debt’s fraught politics and history.

Ketanji Brown Jackson Looks Forward to Reading Fiction Again

The Supreme Court justice has been drawn to American history and books about the “challenges and triumphs” of raising a neurodiverse child. She shares that and more in a memoir, “Lovely One.”

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The New York Times Book Review – April 21, 2024

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (April 20, 2024): The latest issue features….

Coddling Plus Devices? Unequivocal Disaster for Our Kids.

In “The Anxious Generation,” Jonathan Haidt says we’re failing children — and takes a firm stand against tech.

In this photo-illustration, a child sits on a seesaw set in a field of emerald green grass. On the other side of the seesaw is a giant smartphone.

By Tracy Dennis-Tiwary

THE ANXIOUS GENERATION: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, by Jonathan Haidt

Quick! Someone Get This Book a Doctor.

Inside the book conservation lab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

By Molly Young

Not every workplace features a guillotine. At a book conservation lab tucked beneath the first floor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the office guillotine might as well be a water cooler or a file cabinet for all that it fazes the staff. “We have a lot of violent equipment,” said Mindell Dubansky, who heads the Sherman Fairchild Center for Book Conservation.

How the Rich and Poor Once Saw War

In “Muse of Fire,” Michael Korda depicts the lives and passions of the soldier poets whose verse provided a view into the carnage of World War I.

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Arts Preview: ARTFORUM Magazine – March 2024

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March 2024
Paul Pfeiffer, Vitruvian Figure (detail), 2008

Artforum Magazine (March 1, 2024) – The latest issue features THE PURE PRODUCTS OF AMERICA GO CRAZY – Thomas Hirschhorn’s Fake It, Fake It – till you Fake It., 2023; ANTHONY LEPORE; PASSAGES –  PHILL NIBLOCK (1933–2024); TOP TEN – BRUCE LABRUCE and more…

SALON STYLE

Hurvin Anderson, Shear Cut, 2023, acrylic on paper on canvas, 84 3⁄4 × 92 1⁄4". From the series “Barbershop,” 2006–23.

Hurvin Anderson imagines the barbershop

HURVIN ANDERSON’S “BARBERSHOP” series belongs to a long tradition of painterly fascination with the spaces of social interaction that reflect both the physical realities and ideological aspirations of society at large. Anderson’s exhibition “Salon Paintings” at England’s Hastings Contemporary, organized in collaboration with the Hepworth Wakefield, also in England, and Kistefos Museum in Jevnaker, Norway, brings together a body of work he produced between 2006 and 2023 that portrays, albeit in the loosest sense of the word, men’s hair salons. 

“Time Travel: Italian Masters Through a Contemporary Lens”

“Time Travel: Italian Masters Through a Contemporary Lens”
View of “Time Travel: Italian Masters Through a Contemporary Lens,” 2023–24. From left: Ross Bleckner, Day and Night, Hour by Hour, 2023; Josephine Halvorson, Smiley Face, 2023. Photo: Jason Mandella.

Petzel Gallery | East 67th Street

By Donald Kuspit

“Time Travel: Italian Masters Through a Contemporary Lens,” a group exhibition that featured a selection of Renaissance paintings alongside works created by present-day artists, was a type of paragone, except that the debate was not whether painting or sculpture is the superior art form, but whether these historical pieces—executed at a time when grand themes and exquisite craft, among other criteria, determined their value—are better or worse than objects made by artists now, when such antiquated metrics seem well beside the point.

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Museum Tour: ‘European Paintings – 1300 To 1800’ At The Met In New York City

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The Met (January 19, 2024): Join curators Stephan Wolohojian, Adam Eaker, David Pullins, and Anna-Claire Stinebring along with their special guests as they guide you through the newly reopened galleries dedicated to European Paintings from 1300 to 1800.

The reconfigured galleries highlight fresh narratives and dialogues among more than 700 works of art from the Museum’s world-famous holdings, which include recently acquired paintings and prestigious loans, as well as select sculptures and decorative art, showcase the interconnectedness of cultures, materials, and moments across The Met collection.