Looking Class (opens on New York Review of Books)
Timely questions lurk at the heart of connoisseurship: What counts as originality, what value do we place on it, how do we protect it?
Reviews
The headline, standfirst and reviewer from each outlet. Each links to the full review and to the book’s page here.
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Data & Dames (opens on New York Review of Books)
In Nathaniel Rich’s Cloudthief, a heist and a femme fatale plunge an ecojournalist into an all-too-real climate collapse.
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‘A Fury of Dark Energies’ (opens on New York Review of Books)
A biography of Peter Matthiessen captures his antithetical actions and character while never losing sight of his ardent attentiveness to the natural world.
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Chills of the Unsaid (opens on New York Review of Books)
In its skewering of London’s literary egos, Gwendoline Riley’s The Palm House takes a step away from her previous parent-dominated novels, but it too is told by a middle-aged woman struggling to come to terms with her childhood and adolescence.
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In ‘Fires in the Dark,’ Kay Redfield Jamison Turns to Healers (opens on The New York Times)
In “Fires in the Dark,” Jamison, known for her expertise on manic depression, delves into the quest to heal. Her new book, she says, is a “love song to psychotherapy.”
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‘NB by J.C.,’ by James Campbell (opens on The New York Times)
“NB by J.C.” collects the variegated musings of James Campbell in the Times Literary Supplement.
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‘Dom Casmurro,’ by Machado de Assis (opens on The New York Times)
“Dom Casmurro,” by Machado de Assis, teaches us to read — and reread — with precise detail and masterly obfuscation.
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The Detective Novel ‘Whose Body?,’ by Dorothy L. Sayers, Turns 100 (opens on The New York Times)
Dorothy L. Sayers dealt with emotional and financial instability by writing “Whose Body?,” the first of many to star the detective Lord Peter Wimsey.
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‘The Late Americans,’ by Brandon Taylor (opens on The New York Times)
Brandon Taylor’s novel circulates among Iowa City residents, some privileged, some not, but all aware that their possibilities are contracting.
