Judith Shulevitz Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Judith Shulevitz is a contributing writer at The Atlantic. Contributing writer, The Atlantic. Grumpy but I like stuff too. Read my essays or buy my book, The Sabbath World, at https://t.co/GZLrRerTt8. judithshul@gmail.com.
The Seven Day Circle: The History and Meaning of the Week
Eviatar ZerubavelJudith Shulevitz“The Seven Day Circle” is the definitive history of the week ... Zerubavel rigorously lays it out for you the history of these temporal structures that make up a week and how they affect you.
Paperback, 1989
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On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
Emily GuendelsbergerJudith ShulevitzA young journalist named Emily Guendelsberger...took jobs at an Amazon warehouse, a call center and a McDonald’s. And she discovered what these jobs take out of you... it’s a really good portrait of what the decalibrated nature of our just-in-time economy does to people.
Paperback, 2020
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Adam Bede
George EliotJudith ShulevitzIt’s an incredible novel with what we would now call a feminist plot. It’s also set in an English village in the turn of the 19th century... So she devotes an entire chapter to describing a pre-industrial Sabbath in a small English village. And it’s just gorgeous.
Paperback, 2008
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The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor--The Truth and the Turmoil
Tina BrownJudith ShulevitzOn Sway recently, Tina Brown, author of The Palace Papers, predicted that the royal family was going to rope Harry and Meghan back in. They have to. Gotta minimize those rogue royals (except for Prince Andrew, ofc). Appears she was right. https://t.co/ZLexgv6Xva
Paperback, 2023
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Pure Colour
Sheila HetiJudith ShulevitzThis is a gloriously implausible book. Maybe Pure Colour is best labeled a cosmological farce; if so, that’s a discomfiting genre. The God of this novel is everywhere and in everything, but he is less concerned with human happiness than one might have hoped.
Paperback, 2023
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Victory City
Salman RushdieJudith ShulevitzVictory City is a triumph—not because it exists, but because it is utterly enchanting. Words are the only victors... [It is] one of the most charming of Rushdie’s wonder tales.
Paperback, 2024
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Nights of Plague
Orhan PamukJudith ShulevitzParanoia is Pamuk’s great subject and the engine of his style. He forces you to read through scrims of suspicion and doubt. No fact, no backstory, is ever what it seems... He’s truly a novelist for the post-truth age.
Paperback, 2023
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The Minutes
Tracy LettsJudith Shulevitz"The minute I walk through the door of a Starbucks, the overhead fluorescent fixtures start buzzing with this anxiety of meaning, and the coffee beans start screaming." --Kenny Oh in Ruth Ozeki's weird but entertaining new novel. My review below. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/19/books/review/the-book-of-form-and-emptiness-ruth-ozeki.html
Paperback, 2023
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Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
Claire DedererJudith ShulevitzFrom @laurakipnis's excellent review of Claire Dederer's Monsters: "It’s easy to fulminate about consumer capitalism, less easy to contemplate the extent to which the carceral mentalité of our political-economic moment saturates even our imaginations." https://t.co/bpp7tLePRh
Hardcover, 2023
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Tracy Flick Can't Win
Tom PerrottaJudith ShulevitzTom Perrotta, master chronicler of toxic masculinity, surely has things to say about Johnny Depp. From my Atlantic review of *Tracy Flick Can't Win*: His guys have to recover their humanity, but he "makes that look pretty hard." #TomPerrotta https://t.co/i64RUagFqF
Paperback, 2023
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