Donald Shoup, 86, Dies; Scholar Made Parking an Entertaining Subject
In “The High Cost of Free Parking,” he made a dry topic interesting, capturing the attention of policymakers and influencing the ways cities are built.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Gerd Stern, Beat Era Poet and Multimedia Artist, Dies at 96
An Aquarian Age savant, he was a founder of the artists’ collective USCO, which helped define the 1960s with psychedelic, sensory-overloading installations and performances.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Drawing From Bob Dylan’s Songbook, Learning Lessons in Mortality
Todd Almond wrote an oral history on Conor McPherson’s “Girl From the North Country” and its passage through Broadway’s pandemic shutdown.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Books About NYC That Our Readers Love
Plenty of classics made the list, as did books that capture particular, personal slices of New York.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Inside the Making of ‘Wicked’
Meet the writer who helped turn a book into a cultural phenomenon.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Book Review: ‘Money, Lies, and God,’ by Katherine Stewart
A new book by the journalist Katherine Stewart finds a far-right movement seething in resentment, suspicious of reason and determined to dominate at all costs.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Book Review: ‘The Revolutionary Self,’ by Lynn Hunt
In “The Revolutionary Self,” the historian Lynn Hunt explores the way 18th-century culture transformed our sense of power in the world.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Tony Horwitz's widow Geraldine Brooks writes a beautiful memoir of grief
Horwitz died suddenly in 2019 while on a book tour. In Memorial Days, Geraldine Brooks grieves her husband — and also reflects on the life she might have lived had they not met.
Source: NPR Book Reviews
Book Review: ‘Theory & Practice,’ by Michelle de Kretser
In Michelle de Kretser’s new novel, a young graduate student gets caught in the gap between ideals and real life.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Book Review: ‘The Echoes,’ by Evie Wyld
In Evie Wyld’s new novel, “The Echoes,” a woman mourns her partner while also contending with the traumatic past she left behind.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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