The New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis Cullman Center Fellows 24th class include five authors published by Penguin Random House imprints. The Fellowship, which runs from September 2022 through May 2023, is an international program open to ac
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Need a thrilling thriller? A timely nonfiction collection? A trip back to a literary corner of 1920s London? Here they are . and all in paperback, too. Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara (Random House, $18). The first novel from Anappara, a journalist who spent years working in Mumbai and Delhi, India, won the Edgar Award last month for best novel, presented by the Mystery Writers of America. It s the story of a 9-year-old boy who lives in a slum in an imaginary Indian city, and who turns detective when one of his classmates disappears. Rich with easy joy, Anappara s writing announces the arrival of a literary supernova, wrote a New York Times reviewer, adding as a warning, If you begin reading the book in the morning, don t expect to get anything done for the rest of the day.
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By Jennifer Krauss
SQUARE HAUNTING: Five Writers in London Between the Wars,
by Francesca Wade. (Crown, 432 pp., $18.) Bloomsburyâs Mecklenburgh Square was home to five pioneering feminists across 25 years: the poet H.D., the novelist Dorothy Sayers, the medievalist Eileen Power, the classicist Jane Ellen Harrison and, famously, Virginia Woolf. Our reviewer, Blanche Wiesen Cook, called Wadeâs portrait of the group âenchanting.â
UNTIL THE END OF TIME: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe,
by Brian Greene. (Vintage, 448 pp., $17.95.) âOften heartbreaking,â funny and âstuffed with too many profunditiesâ to quote is the way our reviewer, Dennis Overbye, described this âmeditation on how we go on doing what we do, why and how it will end badly, and why it matters anyway.â
Another lockdown month, at home, lots of reading, not a lot of anything else. But thank goodness for books, there were a lot of great ones in March. I read twenty books in a wide variety of genres and modes, with a high concentration of things that made me feel free and among friends, at least while I was reading them.
Sequel to
The Paris Wife, a novel about and from the first person POV of Martha Gellhorn, Hemingway’s second wife. I didn’t like it as much as the first book, perhaps because I fairly recently read a biography of Gellhorn so it was more familiar. However, McLain is a terrific writer and I read this avidly. It began an interesting theme that ran through my March books of early-twentieth-century men and women trying to find new ways of being partners here mostly very unsuccessfully, though there were moments when the two of them were writing in different rooms at the same time and meeting up at meals to compare progress.