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THE CORONA CRASHHow the Pandemic Will Change CapitalismBy Grace Blakeley112 pp. Verso. Paper, $14.95. The chasm between just how well some have thrived economically during the pandemic and just how badly others have fared is among the more startling results of this annus horribilis. But where some see the disease as upending some industries (travel and restaurants) and boosting others […]
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Octavia Butler walked a singular path. A writer from her poverty-stricken childhood to her death in 2006 at the age of 58, she committed her life to turning speculative fiction into a home for Black expression. In her hands, the genre felt capacious and infinite. “I wrote myself in,” she told The New York Times in 2000. Her ink was […]
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DEBUTS HOW THE ONE-ARMED SISTER SWEEPS HER HOUSE by Cherie Jones (Tinder Press £16.99, 320 pp) HOW THE ONE-ARMED SISTER SWEEPS HER HOUSE by Cherie Jones (Tinder Press £16.99, 320 pp) Tourists find paradise at Baxter’s Beach, Barbados. But a short way down the sand there’s a flip-side where the locals live in poverty and scrape a living from the […]
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Hobo who learned to be happy: A homeless man who found true peace as a gardener has written an inspirational memoir Marc Hamer has tended a garden that he doesn’t own for more than two decades Now he has published what feels more or less like his private gardening journal It is about how to live, be calm and content […]
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If you’ve been planning to read (or reread) “The Great Gatsby,” your biggest challenge now might be deciding on which edition. Every Jan. 1, books, songs, movies and other copyrighted works more than 95 years old enter the public domain. This year, that includes F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic, first published in 1925, as well as the Virginia Woolf novel “Mrs. […]
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HOMEBODY A few years ago, Fredrik Backman was looking for a new apartment in Stockholm when inspiration hit during an open house. “We’d seen maybe nine apartments and I was like, ‘I’m good with all of them.’ I could live basically anywhere as long as my wife and kids are OK with it,” Backman said in a phone interview. “So […]
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BEGINNERSThe Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong LearningBy Tom Vanderbilt Early in his new book, “Beginners,” the journalist Tom Vanderbilt finds himself unexpectedly adopting the role of a stereotypical “chess dad.” His daughter, who casually picked up the game at the age of 4, had become a serious enough player to enter scholastic tournaments. Vanderbilt was soon spending long weekend […]
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PEE WEESConfessions of a Hockey ParentBy Rich Cohen “If the coach wants to win more than his or her team does, that’s a problem and the team is doomed to fail,” says the longtime coach of my 15-year-old son’s hockey team. Rich Cohen might understand. In Cohen’s thoughtful, lively new memoir, “Pee Wees: Confessions of a Hockey Parent,” the coach-player […]
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Recent titles of interest: HOMO IRREALIS: Essays, by André Aciman. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.) In this collection, the author of “Call Me by Your Name” and other novels contemplates the life of the imagination, and the ability to hold competing realities simultaneously in mind. FAUST, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Translated by Zsuzsanna Ozsvath and Frederick Turner, with illustrations […]
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Against the wisdom of the ages, you can tell a book by its cover. You can usually tell one by its title, too. “Summerwater” is Sarah Moss’s new novel. Her title is taken from the “The Ballad of Semmerwater,” a poem by the Englishman William Watson (1858-1935). It suggests density and perhaps difficulty, in the manner of the word “riverrun,” […]
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