Gal Beckerman

"The sex improves; the prose does not." @namwalien on Mohsin Hamid's latest. https://t.co/4MMkFwovbq

Gal Beckerman

To find yourself displaced, whether self-imposed or state-inflicted, is to be simultaneously inside and outside; you gain intimate proximity to your new society while standing at a distance from it, seeing things real insiders can’t…This duality is also the novelist’s superpower…

Gal Beckerman

The dramatic story of the 18th-century shipwreck of the HMS Wager seems almost ready-made for Grann... [He] simultaneously reconstructs history while telling a tale that is as propulsive and adventure-filled as any potboiler.

Gal Beckerman

Describing the plot of a McBride novel is a little hard because his books are structured like relay races: One charismatic character hands off the story to another every few pages as the world they inhabit together keeps expanding.

Gal Beckerman

"I have some history with Pence..." Sit back and let @TimAlberta deconstruct the new Mike Pence memoir for you. So help me god. https://t.co/kJUaqMRKlR

Gal Beckerman

A new novel that "captures the mood of New York right now, describing a wounded city where, rather than holding on to what’s gone, residents are eager to rid themselves of the recent past." @Jonesieman's lovely piece on @zaintkhalid's "Brother Alive" https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2022/07/zain-khalid-brother-alive-book-review/670619/

Gal Beckerman

"For all his focus on suicidal trauma, he is, most fundamentally, trying to write his way out from under it, to create a book not of death but of life." @davidulin on Clancy Martin's "How Not to Kill Yourself" https://t.co/Ksdq8F7Gan

Gal Beckerman

Are 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...

Gal 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

Gal Beckerman

The 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/