The Book Review’s art director picks his favorite covers from a year that reminded him of the joys of picking up a book and holding it in his hands. Read more
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Category: Miscellaneous
What Did Dallas Learn from Rediscovering a Suppressed Book?
Dallas, Schutze argues in The Accommodation, has always been “much more Southern, with stronger roots in slave culture,” than most residents know or care to admit. His book traces how the city’s white “business oligarchy” was able to achieve a relatively smooth transition into legal desegregation during the Civil Rights era — it’s an oft-cited source of civic pride that Dallas in the 1960s avoided the racial unrest of cities such as Little Rock and Los Angeles — while finding “informal ways to maintain actual and total separation” of the races into the present day. Read more
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Cuomo Is Ordered to Forfeit Earnings From $5.1 Million Book Deal
The extraordinary directive is the latest development in a fall from grace for the former governor, who in the span of just four months lost his job and reputation, and who is now facing a criminal trial after being accused of groping an aide in the Executive Mansion. Read more
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The 50 Best Books of Literary Journalism of the 21st Century
On our quest to create a list of the great books of literary journalism from the 21st century, we canvassed dozens and dozens of American journalists who do this kind of reporting and writing at the highest level. Among those we asked were winners of Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Awards, and National Magazine Awards, as well as a number of GQ contributors. We wanted to know which books were their favorites, or the most envy-inducing, or the most inspiring, or the most plain enjoyable. Read more
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Looking for a laugh? Here are some of NPR’s favorite funny books of 2021
Want to read and laugh? From NPR’s yearly reading list, Books We Love, four NPR staffers offer their suggestions. Read more
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Books make the best gifts. Here are seven surprising choices for the readers on your list.
The countdown to Christmas has begun, but as shopping desperation sets in, remember that books make the best gifts — and they’re easy to wrap and send! Here are some to consider. Read more
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Black authors on New York Times top 10 book list draw backlash
While The New York Times Books Review‘s annual Ten Best Books list has long [been] considered the gold standard of literary criticism, not nearly enough attention has been given to black authors on the list. This year’s list corrects that issue, but still drew a critical response from people who believe the list was “too woke” for their tastes. Read more
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101 Greatest Screenplays of the 21st Century
“As voted upon by the members of the Writers Guilds West and East, the list of the 101 Greatest Screenplays of the 21st Century (so far) is both a celebration of the great writers and screenplays of the last 21 years and a study of how writing for the screen has evolved and diversified since the 20th Century.” Read more
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Unbound reprints 70,000 copies of TikTok hit Cain’s Jawbone
Authored by the Observer’s first cryptic crossword setter, Cain’s Jawbone was first published by Gollancz in 1934, under the pen name Torquemada. It was written with the 100 pages deliberately out of order, inviting readers to solve the murder mystery by re-ordering them. Only three people are thought to have solved the puzzle, including British comedy writer John Finnemore, who received £1,000 from the press after it reissued the book in 2019 and launched a competition. Read more
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Alice Sebold Apologizes to Man Wrongly Convicted of Raping Her
Anthony Broadwater spent 16 years in prison after the author identified him as her attacker in an assault she described in her memoir, “Lucky.” Its publisher said Tuesday that it would stop distributing the book. Read more
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