The New Yorker Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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The Prophet
Kahlil GibranThe New Yorker“Shakespeare, we are told, is the best-selling poet of all time. Second is Lao-tzu. Third is Kahlil Gibran, who owes his place on that list to one book, ‘The Prophet,’ ” Joan Acocella wrote, in 2007. https://t.co/Nv6k7Z4hmc
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Alice in Wonderland
Lewis CarrollThe New YorkerOn Lewis Carroll’s birthday, revisit Adam Gopnik on how the controversial author of “Alice in Wonderland” inspired the British modernists. https://t.co/xfVvydRONc
Paperback, 2010
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The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor--The Truth and the Turmoil
Tina BrownThe New YorkerThe Queen decides. She elevates. She exiles. The rest of them? “They are high-born scaffolding,” Tina Brown writes in “The Palace Papers,” her latest chronicle of the unhappy House of Windsor. https://t.co/ZtODd8KyB3
Paperback, 2023
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Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner
Toni MorrisonThe New YorkerJudith Thurman’s 1987 review of Toni Morrison’s “Beloved.” #NewYorkerArchive http://nyer.cm/fWFMUbR
Paperback, 2004
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I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
Claire Vaye WatkinsThe New YorkerIf Claire Vaye Watkins’s new novel, “I Love You but I’ve Chosen Darkness,” claims a place in the archive of ambivalent motherhood, it also breaks the mold, @xwaldie writes. https://t.co/rf5AQHiboF
Paperback, 2022
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Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
Brené BrownThe New YorkerIn Brené Brown’s new book, “Atlas of the Heart,” she argues that we have to watch out for “the emotions and qualities that masquerade as the virtue we’re seeking but actually undermine it.” https://t.co/mxAMvDw5UL
Hardcover, 2021
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Blonde
Joyce Carol OatesThe New Yorker“Blonde” is a work of fiction and imagination, wherein Joyce Carol Oates plays with, rearranges, and invents the details of Marilyn Monroe’s life in order to achieve a deeper poetic and spiritual truth. https://t.co/0mrDGGODy0
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So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
Claire KeeganThe New YorkerThe author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss the story “So Late in the Day,” which was published in a 2022 issue of the magazine. https://t.co/RFt7BjLYEm
Hardcover, 2023
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You, Bleeding Childhood
Michele MariThe New YorkerThis collection of short stories from an Italian writer with a cult following delves into the obsessions, anxieties, and detritus of childhood.
Paperback, 2023
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Where the Crawdads Sing: Reese's Book Club
Delia OwensThe New Yorker“It’s a very complicated story, it was a very emotional thing, it was a very bad thing.” Revisit our 2010 report on how the now-best-selling author Delia Owens, who wrote “Where the Crawdads Sing,” became involved in a mysterious tragedy. https://t.co/j4CJV5kLnF
Paperback, 2021
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