Posts
 |
| Follow on Twitter as @GregoryCowles |
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times by Gregory Cowles, Senior Editor, Books.
Now that Election Day is behind us —
like an exorcism, maybe: “Get behind us, midterms!” — the natural
question is what it all will mean. Books can help with that. (Books can
help with everything.) Our recommended titles this week offer context
for some of the country’s most pressing political issues across a range
of perspectives and genres. In “Melting Pot or Civil War?,” Reihan Salam
tries to find middle ground on immigration. In “She Wants It,” the TV
writer Jill Soloway provides a personal take on the politics of gender
and transgender identity. In “American Dialogue,” the historian Joseph
Ellis asks what the founders would make of our current divisions. Jane
Sharon De Hart’s “Ruth Bader Ginsburg” traces the Supreme Court
justice’s route to becoming a feminist icon. Kiese Laymon’s excellent
memoir, “Heavy,” and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s excellent story
collection, “Friday Black,” both unfold against a backdrop of national
dysfunction and racist violence. And Max Boot explains why he has turned
away from his longtime home in the Republican Party.
Or
maybe you prefer to forget about politics for a while. Books can help
with that too: We bring you Lee Child’s latest thriller, Kathryn
Harrison’s latest memoir, a biography of Nietzsche and two books (a
memoir and a story collection) from the unjustly neglected 20th-century
writer Lucia Berlin, who is finally and happily starting to get her due.
Read more...
Source: New York Time
Read more...
Source: New York Time
