Becca rothfeld Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Becca rothfeld

Moving and masterful... [A] magnificent book... I wept many times reading V13... Carrère commits everything to the page, omitting nothing, however unbearable.

Becca rothfeld

In 10 nimbly reported essays, Osnos investigates the privileges and pretensions — and often, the crimes — of the outrageously affluent... this is about as good as a work of this sort could be... his reporting is sharp, and his prose is charming.

Becca rothfeld

A contemporary writer of thrilling originality... The MANIAC is a work of dark, eerie and singular beauty.

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One of the great chroniclers of the emotional distortions that arise under totalitarianism. “Another Life” is a wonderfully paranoiac testament to the way that familiar interpersonal uncertainties are exacerbated by political repression, until they bubble up and boil over.

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Captivating... 'The Book Against Death' refuses finality by remaining forever on the cusp of transformation... It can’t save all of us, as Canetti longed to, but there is a small portion of immortality to be found in it nonetheless.

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His melancholic, meditative and theatrically nostalgic way of being is as irrepressible in his writing as it is in his films... I feel the same sense of awe when I contemplate the phenomenon of Werner Herzog as I do when I contemplate the pyramids.

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'Let Only Red Flowers Bloom' is enormously informative, but more important, it manages to humanize history that all too easily shades into abstraction.