Le notti bianche (1957)
We began this short week with a look at the enthusiastic response to Mark Harris’s
Mike Nichols: A Life, and opening this month’s round on new and noteworthy books, we turn to a few more biographies. For a
New York Times profile of literary biographer Hermione Lee, widely admired for her books on Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, and Penelope Fitzgerald, Charles McGrath spoke recently with novelist Julian Barnes who recalled the day that playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard approached Lee and asked her if she might consider making him her next subject. When she asked why he’d set his sights on her, he replied, “Because I want it to be read.” When
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The Essential Toni Morrison
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Curious case of Aravind Adiga as a famous literary recluse: Booker-winning author is anomaly in publishing world In an inversion of the mantra that marketing is a necessary evil, the bane of an author’s existence that ultimately has its reward, Adiga refuses to do too much publicity around his books, often to the chagrin of his publishers. Nawaid Anjum February 16, 2021 11:04:58 IST Aravind Adiga. Photo by Fernando Morales
Aravind Adiga, the Booker Prize-winning author of
The White Tiger (2008), has always struck me as India’s most famous literary recluse, an anomaly in the modern publishing world where the order of the day seems to be: Publicise
10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Feb. 4, 2021
It’s rare for a self-help book to crack our list of recommended titles. But Ron Lieber’s guide to the financial side of higher education, “The Price You Pay for College,” made the cut for a couple of reasons. First, on the face of it, it’s an impressively thorough and genuinely useful manual for people staring up the sheer cliff of college tuition payments. (I am one.) Second, and more relevant for an audience of general readers, it also contains an implicit analysis and critique of higher education as a system, by acknowledging the inequities that exist at every level from recruitment to admissions to financial aid. It’s a how-to book that will also make you think, “But why?”