THE PERSUADERS by Anand Giridharadas Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

THE PERSUADERS by Anand Giridharadas

I immersed myself in Fuchsia Dunlop’s seminal "The Food of Sichuan" to replace my meals from the great “Birds of a Feather” in Brooklyn. Her fish fragrant eggplant and mapo tofu and Chongqing chicken are — sorry, I have to go eat.

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...the Neapolitan novels by Elena Ferrante, which I was the last person on earth to begin, give me that same feeling [being fully enveloped]. Words that make a place more real, more vivid, to you than your own is.

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Is the traditional model of Western foreign correspondent problematic, or is the eye of a sensitive and diligent outsider still invaluable? I asked @NYTimesCohen, whose terrific book, AN AFFIRMING FLAME, is just out. https://t.co/hdtvXxoaQ9 https://t.co/VA1cdgXz9N

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Ainslie Hogarth’s new book, Motherthing, came out today. And it’s a work of fiction that is a darkly funny take on family and death…and food.

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...I thought “Our Man,” a biography of the late diplomat Richard Holbrooke, by the journalist George Packer, was extraordinary and under-noticed. A raw and honest look at a complicated man, but also a portrait of a country that was losing its sway in the world during his lifetime.

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It is a rare and powerful thing these days for someone to admit they were wrong. In our culture of competitive certitude, it is a risk too many of us are unwilling to take. That’s just one of the reasons I admire... David Gelles’s powerful new book

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The American power elite needs this book, because, in so many ways, so many sections of it are sleepwalking us all into fascism.

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THE PERSUADERS by Anand Giridharadas

“The 1619 Project,” which of course originated as a New York Times special section and then evolved into a book, showed the power that writing can have over public life. It helped force a reckoning about the nature of the history we teach and created a clamor for honest history.

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Reading “The Grapes of Wrath” offers such a powerful reminder of the way that literature can unabashedly engage in politics at no cost to either pursuit.

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THE PERSUADERS by Anand Giridharadas

I remember reading “Another Country,” by James Baldwin, during the writing of my first book and feeling so fully enveloped in the New York world he created.

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