The Economist Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Caroline Dodds PennockThe EconomistCaroline Dodds Pennock remembers their stories and impact on 16th-century Europe in “On Savage Shores” https://t.co/1WwBKDlMxH
Paperback, 2024
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A Little Life
Hanya YanagiharaThe EconomistReading the horrors in Hanya Yanagihara’s novel is one thing. Seeing them acted out is another. Our review of “A Little Life” on London’s West End https://t.co/Wvz27RW91j
Paperback, 2016
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Free Love
Tessa HadleyThe Economist“Free Love” shares themes with Tessa Hadley’s previous books: marital discontent, the fluctuating status of women, and the secrets people keep to maintain the social or personal status quo https://t.co/v95ocTTEyt
Paperback, 2023
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Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
Barbara DemickThe EconomistFew writers have done more to illuminate isolated parts of the world than Barbara Demick. ... She delivers a riveting narrative account of Tibetans who have lived and died there, as well as those who have fled overseas.
Paperback, 2021
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Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally RooneyThe EconomistDo great books inevitably require grand themes? This is the fundamental question posed by Sally Rooney’s novels. In the latest, “Beautiful World, Where Are You”, she raises it herself https://econ.st/38EnjJy
Paperback, 2022
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Zelensky: A Biography
Serhii RudenkoThe Economist“Zelensky”, by Serhii Rudenko, is the first book in English about Ukraine’s comedian-turned-president-turned-war leader. It measures the gulf between before and now https://t.co/e74VDQk7EC
Paperback, 2023
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Azar NafisiThe EconomistThe tensions that play out violently on Tehran’s streets do not disappear in Ms Nafisi’s living room, but they become subjects of reflection and debate.
Paperback, 2003
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The Waste Land
T. S. EliotThe EconomistSlurs scar T.S. Eliot’s writing. A century after it was first published, “The Waste Land” is a case study in thinking about great art by reprehensible artists https://t.co/ku8s2fJodq
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Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
Andrea WulfThe EconomistA gang of young German intellectuals played an outsize part in the movement that came to be known as Romanticism. Andrea Wulf tells their story in “Magnificent Rebels” https://t.co/AvxnfQIXhn
Paperback, 2023
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The Secret History: A Read with Jenna Pick
Donna TarttThe EconomistAs a campus novel and murder mystery set in New England, it has echoes of Donna Tartt’s blockbuster, “The Secret History” https://t.co/tvS9vXNruJ
Paperback, 2004
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