Review | Chris Ware’s ‘Rusty Brown’
If I were recommending just one book published in 2019, it would be this big, audacious, unwieldy masterpiece.
David Starkey
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Review | David Wallace-Wells’s ‘The Uninhabitable Earth’
Book on the calamities of climate change offers one body blow after another.
Review | Peter Schjeldahl’s ‘Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light’
Author feels like a best friend just happens to know almost everything there is to know about art.
Review | A. C. Grayling’s ‘The History of Philosophy’
Author makes pre-Socratic philosophers feel unexpectedly relevant.
Review | Peter Schjeldahl’s ‘Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light’
Author feels like a best friend just happens to know almost everything there is to know about art.
Review | Natalia Ginzburg’s ‘The Dry Heart’
The author expertly shows how a beleaguered woman might arrive at murder.
Review | Margaret Renkl’s ‘Late Migrations’
Author writes about the history of love, loss, and the natural world.
Review | Amy Hempel’s ‘Sing to It’
The author continues to create stories that explore the strangeness of contemporary life.
Review | ‘Macbeth: A Dagger of the Mind’
Scholar Harold Bloom adds this fifth book to his Shakespeare’s Personalities series.
Review | ‘ekphrasis’ Series is Charming, Eccentric
Taken as a whole, the essays represent a vivifying approach to art criticism.
