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Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times by John Williams, Daily Books Editor and Staff Writer.
It’s a truism that books help us imagine
our way into other people’s lives, and the books on this week’s list do
it in a remarkable variety of ways. There’s historical fiction that
visits the relatively recent past (Tennessee Williams and his social
milieu come to life in Christopher Castellani’s “Leading Men”) and the very
recent past (Thomas Mallon’s “Landfall” is a novel about George W. Bush
and his presidency). Valeria Luiselli’s innovative new novel asks us to
imagine the pain and sacrifice in the lives of those who arrive at the
American border. Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom offer evocative
stories about being black in America. Esmé Weijun Wang’s essays give us a
firsthand idea of what it’s like to experience schizophrenia.
Also
this week: A look at America’s “territorial empire,” an ingenious
satirical novel, a memoir about grief and Virginia Woolf, the biography
of a powerful and influential first lady, and Elizabeth McCracken’s
long-awaited new novel, “Bowlaway.”
Source: New York Times
