Books
This slender memoir reads like a rambling conversation with a literary stranger you meet on a train.
Given what Olga Tokarczuk is curious about, it is not surprising that her book serves up its share of goofy humor.
Summer Cannibals’ main virtue is its keen transmission of psychological warfare in families.
Too many cultural critics look at our past through a fuzzy filter of sentiment. Chapo Trap House tackles America’s past and present idiocies head-on in a refreshingly honest way.
Thomas Clerc’s novel reminds us of a stubborn truth: we are all narcissists that live to accumulate shit in rooms.
I say we need this book now, but the truth is we needed it even more a while ago.
There are 170 recipes in King Solomon’s Table . Joan Nathan, a sort of culinary archeologist, tracks down the details of their origins to Biblical times.
Lost Empress’ ambition is admirable, and while the over-the-top style gets away from itself, it’s lively and sometimes entertaining.
Some people fled William Corbett’s bravura; others stayed, laughing.
Arts Commentary: The Author of “The Jazz Bubble” Responds
“What is new since the ’70s is a much broader ideological shift in the business world itself, and the way in which it came to approach the jazz world as a result.”
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