Books
Alan Furst’s books are spy thrillers infused with a crisp, rather than a flowery, literary sensibility.
Read MoreDigging Up Mother: A Love Story is Doug Stanhope’s disarmingly funny, unexpectedly sweet memoir.
Read MoreExit Right is about how six men entered into politics on the left side of the spectrum and wound up immured in varying extremes of conservatism.
Read MoreDid Marguerite Duras, who had worked in the French résistance during the war, feel guilty about not having been sufficiently concerned about the Shoah?
Read MoreIt is not surprising that Wendy Warren strains to find words to “comprehend the rank tragedy that resulted from enslavement.”
Read MoreThe author makes fully human an illness marked by absence and estrangement from humanity.
Read MoreIn no way does Sweetbitter succeed in doing what you are led to expect of it: to frame the post-9/11 zeitgeist.
Read MoreTim Winton’s memoir about how deeply Australia’s landscape shaped him and his writing.
Read MoreLibrary of America’s anthology War No More explores a distinctively American tradition of antimilitarism.
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Book Review: “Better Living Through Criticism” — Critical Self-Help
A.O. Scott’s hurrah for criticism should be savored by anyone interested in how we articulate the value of the arts.
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