Books Archive
Archives for April 2019
And the rest of the week’s best writing on books and related subjects.
Feminist dystopian fiction owes just as much to this woman — who wrote as a man — as Margaret Atwood.
Why our pursuit of rationality leads to explosions of irrationality.
Is the bookstore crawl the new pub crawl?
Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me is perfectly fine. Coming from McEwan, that’s disappointing.
And the rest of the week’s best writing on books and related subjects.
It takes months to publish a book. Publishers want to turn the Mueller report around in one week.
Bret Easton Ellis’s new book is Bret Easton Ellis repeating, “I’m not mad, I actually think it’s funny,” for 260 pages.
The 28-year-old author of Conversations With Friends defies the sophomore slump.
And the rest of the week’s best writing on new and related subjects.
Jenny Odell’s How to Do Nothing makes the case for keeping your Facebook account, staying on Twitter, checking your email, but doing it all differently, and “not as asked.” (And not as self-help.)
Brands rarely try to insert themselves into books. That might not say great things about the state of the novel.
Oysters like sea foam and psychedelic sorbet.
From sci-fi to thrillers, it’s time for Hollywood to discover — or rediscover — these King tales.
Can the mindfulness movement resist becoming a tool of self-absorption?