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Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times by Gregory Cowles, Senior Editor, Books.
Biographies take center stage in this
week’s recommended titles — whether the traditional, magisterial kind
that walks readers through the life of a celebrated figure (John
Marshall, Saul Bellow) or the more intimate kind that shines attention
on a person who might otherwise be overlooked (Scholastique Mukasonga’s
mother, Stefania, in “The Barefoot Woman,” or Stephen L. Carter’s
grandmother Eunice Carter, in “Invisible”). There’s also a group
biography of the fathers of Oscar Wilde, William Butler Yeats and James
Joyce, and autobiography in the form of memoir (by Elaine Pagels) and
personal essays (by Meghan O’Gieblyn).
We
round things out with a novel about politics and sexual violence, Idra
Novey’s “Those Who Knew,” and a narrative history, Patricia Miller’s
“Bringing Down the Colonel,” touching on some of those same themes in
its account of a 19th-century lawsuit that challenged the era’s
prevailing notions of gender and sexual mores.
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Source: New York Time
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Source: New York Time
