Review: A New ‘Great Gatsby’ Leads With Comedy and Romance
This musical adaptation, now on Broadway, is a lot of Jazz Age fun. But it forgot that Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel endures because it is a tragedy.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Helen Vendler: An Appreciation
She devoted her life to showing us how and why.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
This collection may be the closest we'll ever come to a Dickinson autobiography
The Letters of Emily Dickinson collects 1,304 letters, starting with one she wrote at age 11. Her singular voice comes into its own in the letters of the 1860s, which often blur into poems.
(Image credit: Three Lions)
Source: NPR Book Reviews
This collection may be the closest we'll ever come to a Dickinson autobiography
The Letters of Emily Dickinson collects 1,304 letters, starting with one she wrote at age 11. Her singular voice comes into its own in the letters of the 1860s, which often blur into poems.
(Image credit: Three Lions)
Source: NPR Book Reviews
They Saw Dallas as a Literary Hub, Then Got to Work Making It One
“We are a literary city”: Will Evans started saying it in 2013, when he started the publisher Deep Vellum. Alongside the bookstore Wild Detectives and others, they’ve put Dallas on the literary map.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Interview: Steve Gleason, the author of the A.L.S. memoir ‘A Life Impossible’
The former N.F.L. player has been living with A.L.S. for more than a decade. Sharing “the most lacerating and vulnerable times” in “A Life Impossible” was worth the physical and emotional toll, he says.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
New Crime and Mystery Novels
Our crime columnist on mysteries by Catherine Mack, Katrina Carrasco, Marcia Muller and K.C. Constantine.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Helen Vendler, ‘Colossus’ of Poetry Criticism, Dies at 90
In the poetry marketplace, her praise had reputation-making power, while her disapproval could be withering.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Book Review: ‘Finish What We Started,’ by Isaac Arnsdorf
“Finish What We Started,” by the journalist Isaac Arnsdorf, reports from the front lines of the right-wing movement’s strategy to gain power, from the local level on up.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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