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With this week’s recommended books, we go big. Not necessarily in terms of size (although that too, at times), but in terms of ideas, beliefs, social structures, -isms. There’s capitalism, in Eula Biss’s “Having and Being Had.” Colonialism and theism — both Christian and Muslim — in Alan Mikhail’s “God’s Shadow.” Racism and its consequences, in Talia Lavin’s “Culture Warlords” […]
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Two years ago, at what seemed to be the pinnacle of her 25 years in publishing, Molly Stern’s career came to an abrupt halt. As publisher of Crown, Ms. Stern had released 2018’s biggest blockbuster — Michelle Obama’s memoir, “Becoming,” which sold more than two million copies in its first two weeks. Less than a month later, Ms. Stern left […]
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It’s 2pm on a rainy Thursday and Dolly Alderton is still in bed. Correction, she’s spent the morning working in bed. ‘I know you are not meant to but it’s lush,’ she says, then coughs. ‘Excuse me. That’s my fault for smoking cigarettes last night.’ Dating columnist, podcaster and author of a hit memoir (Everything I Know About Love), Alderton […]
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THE SILENCEBy Don DeLillo A.D., for me, has come to mean not anno Domini but anno DeLillo, an unaccountable time after the annulment of time — after the fall seasons and spring seasons, after the sweeps-weeks and opening weekends, after the early and late editions, after the updates at 6 and at 10. This new era was inaugurated in 1971 […]
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MAX JACOBA Life in Art and LettersBy Rosanna Warren “Fame is a fickle food,” Emily Dickinson wrote, “Upon a shifting plate.” Max Jacob would know. A marginal figure three times over — gay, ethnically Jewish and hailing from the provinces — the French writer and painter dined at the same table as the giants of European modernism, including Apollinaire, Georges […]
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How a drunk teenager shipwrecked the monarchy: After a raucous drinking session at sea, Henry I’s heir drowned trying to save his sister… reveals historian (and Diana’s brother) Earl Spencer The White Ship sank in 1120 on its way from Barfleur harbour to Southampton It was carrying Henry I’s only legitimate son, 17-year-old William Aetheling William ordered his guards to […]
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Everyone loves pizza, right? Well turns out James Elliot, who runs Pizza Pilgrims with his brother Thom, loves pizza so much he didn’t just open a restaurant serving it, but now he’s written a book all about it as well. We could up with James to chat about Pizza: A Book By Pizza Pilgrims and his views on all things […]
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Author who was too anxious to leave the house after his marriage broke down challenges himself to do 50 adventurous activities in a year for a new book – from beekeeping to globetrotting Rob Temple says he was too anxious to leave his home after his marriage failed Now he has challenged himself to complete 50 adventurous things in a […]
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Recent audiobooks of interest: THE PURPOSE OF POWER: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart, by Alicia Garza, read by the author. (Random House Audio.) The co-creator of the Black Lives Matter movement shares the lessons she’s learned — about activism and civil rights — the hard way. ALL RISE, by Nick Offerman, read by the author. (Penguin Audio.) […]
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1WHAT’S PAST IS PROLOGUE “. . . what’s past is prologue, what to come, in yours and my discharge.” —William Shakespeare, The Tempest In the early 1830s a French aristocrat named Alexis de Tocqueville traveled to America at the behest of his government, with a mission to better understand the American prison system. At the time the United States was […]
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