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books December 22, 2018
When The Saturday Paper launched in March 2014, we chose to experiment with publishing book reviews anonymously. As with everything else, we wanted to test the orthodoxy of our culture. More correctly, these reviews have been pseudonymous, with...
books December 22, 2018
If you told me at the beginning of 2018 that my book of the year would be the memoir of a transgender man who took up boxing, I would have offered you generous odds against it. But here is Thomas Page McBee’s tough, tender, wise and moving Amateur...
books December 22, 2018
No Friend But the Mountains , the electrifying “memoir of ideas” by the refugee journalist-philosopher Behrouz Boochani is my book of the year. Boochani defied every attempt of successive governments to deny refugees such as him a voice,...
books December 20, 2018
Quarterly Essay 72 – Net Loss: The Inner Life in the Digital Age
Welcome to The Summer Library: selected extracts from the best new books this summer.
books December 20, 2018
Welcome to The Summer Library: selected extracts from the best new books this summer.
books December 19, 2018
Welcome to The Summer Library: selected extracts from the best new books this summer
books December 15, 2018
Jonathan Lethem’s 11th novel is an oddity. It begins five days before Donald Trump’s inauguration, when 33-year-old New York Times journalist Phoebe Siegler quits her job, partly in protest at her employer inviting the “Beast-Elect” in for a meeting...
