The 10 nonfiction contenders include one author longlisted in 2019, Hanif Abdurraqib, this time for his book “A Little Devil in America,” as well as two books that examine the legacy of slavery in the United States. Clint Smith visited nine sites connected to slavery for his book “How the
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For His Next Act, Anthony Doerr Wrote a Book About Everything
What did it mean for his friend, despite this groundedness, to contend with the phenomenon his last book became? According to Scribner, “All the Light” spent more than 200 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list. It sold more than 5.7 million copies in North America across print, e-book
Book Review: ‘Bewilderment,’ by Richard Powers
The novel’s central question is the same one posed in “The Overstory” by Douggie Pavlicek, a Vietnam War vet turned eco-warrior: “What the [Expletive] Went Wrong With Mankind?” The dialogue distantly reminded me of that in my own favorite novel from third grade, Richard Bach’s “Jonathan Livingston Seagull.” Robbie speaks
Welcome to the Trump Book Expo
From left: Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker’s “I Alone Can Fix It” includes Liz Cheney telling Jim Jordan, “You [expletive] did this,” about the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta’s book “Nightmare Scenario” zeros in on Trump’s response to Covid. In “Frankly, We Did Win This Election,”
When an Art Fair Is Also a (Rare) Book Fair
GÜNTHER Two items stand out to me. One, the Stammheim Missal (1170-1180), now resides in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. I acquired it from a German noble family who had owned it for around 200 years, and sold it in the mid-1990s to the
There’s a GameStop Book, Already
Mezrich mans the conveyor belt at the factory that turns raw reality into its eventual slick cinematic depiction. He works fast. One does not have the sense that those gaps in knowledge ever haunt him as he goes. The events chronicled in his latest book, “The Antisocial Network” — the
Sally Rooney Book Swag and the Hype for 'Beautiful World, Where Are You'
Perhaps you’ve heard there’s a new Sally Rooney novel coming? This summer, advance copies of “Beautiful World, Where Are You” have graced the Twitter feeds and Instagram Stories of the literary internet — humble-brags that the readers had gotten their hands on the book ahead of its Sept. 7 release.
Book Review: ‘Beautiful World, Where Are You,” by Sally Rooney
In a novelist’s hands, as in real life, technology is what one makes of it. It’s difficult to sell “actual lol” as a brutally emotional and telling line, but Rooney does, capping off a testy text exchange between Eileen and her sister. Rooney’s people are reflective of their time and
Book Review: ‘Matrix,’ by Lauren Groff
No, Marie protests; she is but 17 and entirely lacking a vocation, having been quick to discard the “foolish” religion she was raised in. After all, “why should she, who felt her greatness hot in her blood, be considered lesser because the first woman was molded from a rib and
When the Book Review Went Really Harsh
From its very first issue in October 1896, the Book Review liked to deliver blunt edicts — and, as you’ll see, even blunter headlines. An 1898 review of George Bernard Shaw’s collected plays asserted that “he has not a touch of the poetical in his composition, and the critic and