Gal Beckerman Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Gal Beckerman is a senior books editor at the Atlantic. Senior editor for books at @TheAtlantic, formerly @nytimesbooks, and author, most recently, of "The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas."
The Last White Man
Mohsin HamidGal Beckerman"The sex improves; the prose does not." @namwalien on Mohsin Hamid's latest. https://t.co/4MMkFwovbq
Paperback, 2023
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Birnam Wood
Eleanor CattonGal Beckerman"Ask me how much time and money I have devoted, in my adult life, to conscious efforts to be a good person, and I would struggle to quantify it." @lilyjmeyer has an apt reading of Eleanor Catton’s new novel, "Birnam Wood." https://t.co/vnpnp1sAwc
Paperback, 2024
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Death by Landscape
Elvia WilkGal BeckermanAlways good to hear an argument for weirdness. From @mfriedrichnyc, on Elvia Wilk's new book "Death by Landscape." https://t.co/7ajbMzjh9D
Paperback, 2022
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Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony DoerrGal BeckermanI went to the mountains of Idaho to profile Anthony Doerr for a piece that, if there was any true beauty in the world, should have been called "All the Air We Cannot Breathe." https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/16/books/anthony-doerr-cloud-cuckoo-land.html
Paperback, 2022
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Tom Lake
Ann PatchettGal BeckermanAre novelists allowed to write stories about people who are this happy? Lara lives with her kind husband and three doting daughters trapped together during the pandemic. To kill time Lara tells them the story of her great, youthful, summer-long love affair with a rakish man...
Hardcover, 2023
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White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
Kelly LinkGal Beckerman"That contrast between dreaminess and dread makes the darkness feel even inkier." Jason Heller reviews Kelly Link's new collection of fairy take inflected short stories. https://t.co/eyaK8vzW2b
Paperback, 2023
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The Bell Jar
Sylvia PlathGal BeckermanThe other book (not "The Bell Jar") that marked a generation of teenage girls. It did @lequincampe, who was "desperate to calm a mind in revolt." https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2022/05/i-never-promised-you-a-rose-garden-review/629941/
Paperback, 2005
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No Longer Human
Osamu DazaiGal Beckerman"the pressure to be genuine, the burden of creating a public persona, the feeling that you need to perform your life for others" @janewhykim on Osamu Dazai, the Japanese novelist writing in the 1940s whose work feels more than a little apt https://t.co/i9wA0PRF6U
Hardcover, 2022
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This Time Tomorrow
Emma StraubGal Beckerman“Being a New Yorker,” she said, “has so much to do with loss.” @sophieGG talks to @emmastraub about "This Time Tomorrow" https://t.co/Rg1HkiVeYt
Paperback, 2023
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The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
Jonathan RosenGal BeckermanRosen’s new memoir, The Best Minds, is his attempt to understand the complexity of his relationship with Laudor, as well as the ways that mental illness has been treated and understood in America over the past half century.
Paperback, 2024
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