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Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times by Gregory Cowles, Senior Editor, Books.
Crime and punishment are everywhere in
this week’s recommended titles, from Patrick Radden Keefe’s “Say
Nothing” (the true account of a 1972 murder in Northern Ireland) to Don
Winslow’s “The Border” (the last novel in his trilogy about the drug
trade) to Andrew G. McCabe’s “The Threat” (a memoir about the F.B.I. by
its former deputy director). Post-Oscars, we also recommend a film
critic’s take on Hollywood’s sexual subtexts; and post-democracy
(kidding! I hope!) we suggest some histories to offer perspective — a
look at how the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson turned segregation
into federal policy, a celebration of black women who smashed
boundaries, a study of American political polarization and its
consequences.
If you get quite enough
of that elsewhere thank you, and turn to reading precisely to escape
the noise and the chaos, well, we hear you. And we quietly urge you to
pick up Jane Brox’s book “Silence,” which considers the uses and abuses
of enforced quiet from monasteries to prisons.
Source: New York Time
