Books
In this collection, Carolynn Kingyens discloses what lies behind the veneer of our relationships.
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The author of The Resisters returns with a timely collection of stories about the connections and contradictions linking America and China.
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This is an extraordinarily beautiful book, its present tense prose creating “an atmosphere of literature,” in Virginia Woolf’s words, its honest probing as illuminating as anything you will read about what it means to be Jewish.
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You know how the story is going to end, but it can only unfold if you take Cassandra’s hand and follow where she knows to go. Believe that she knows the way.
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From the pandemic’s beginning, Charles Finch uses the crisis as a nearly daily backdrop for musings on all sorts. The results are at once cathartic, frightening, exasperating, and often hilarious.
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Tamas Dobozy is an anarchist in the best sense of the word: it’s not chaos he’s enamored of but a way of life untrammeled by political oppression, bureaucratic horrors, legal absurdities.
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What holds this wildly ambitious book together and drives the narrative is Rebecca Donner’s unwavering, partisan voice.
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What is evident throughout these superb tales of turn-of-century shtetl life is their authenticity.
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David Rooney’s thesis in About Time is provocatively ironic: clocks, through their ever-increasing precision and regularity, are the instruments of constant change.
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Can somebody tell me, tell me please, why there’s suddenly such a profusion, a torrent… almost a glut, of significant art history books entering the marketplace right about now? Read More
The 20th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll: The Institution Continues