Tillie Olsen and the Barriers to Creativity
A. O. Scott discusses Olsen’s work, and Wendy Lower talks about “The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
New in Paperback: ‘Deacon King Kong’ and ‘The Undocumented Americans’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
To This Essayist and Cultural Critic, the Black Tradition Is Resistance
Jesse McCarthy’s debut collection, “Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?,” sees art as not a tool of political power, but a power itself.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Heroines, Witnessing Executions and Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
12 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
The (Way Too Many) Kids Whose Lives Have Been Upended by Gun Violence
“Children Under Fire,” by the Washington Post reporter John Woodrow Cox, homes in on the often overlooked suffering of children who have witnessed a shooting or lost a loved one to it.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Tillie Olsen Captured the Toll of Women’s Labor — on Their Lives and Art
Through her rigorous depictions of working-class families, this mid-20th-century writer of fiction conveyed the costs of living for burdened mothers, wives and daughters.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
'There's No Such Thing As An Easy Job' Takes Gentle Aim At Japan's Work Culture
Kikuko Tsumura's new novel follows an unnamed protagonist who embarks on a series of odd temp jobs — and discovers that as the jobs get duller, the demands of her male supervisors get more intense.
(Image credit: Bloomsbury)
Source: NPR Book Reviews
The Restless, Eclectic and Contradictory Passions of Edward Said
“Places of Mind,” a new biography by Timothy Brennan, a former student, shows one of America’s most distinguished postwar intellectuals to have been a man of deep complexity.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
The Book That Taught Tammy Duckworth How to Mummify Human Remains
“I haven’t found a use for that yet, but you never know.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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