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After watching Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's documentary series "Hemingway," critic Gene Seymour says the continuing fascination with the writer's public and private lives remains a mystery. Seymour says our inability to let him go speaks less to what we encounter on the page and more to what lurks behind it about Hemingway, and about us that we alternate between reveling in and wanting to unsee.
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Take a Journey Through 125 Years of Book Review History
March 15, 2021
March 15, 2021
1896
1905
Shortly before the publication of “The House of Mirth,” this portrait of Edith Wharton became the first photograph to appear on the cover of the Book Review.
1905
Shortly before the publication of “The House of Mirth,” this portrait of Edith Wharton became the first photograph to appear on the cover of the Book Review.
1918
To illustrate the 1,562 books featured in spring publishing catalogues, the early Book Review employed an infographic.
Reviewing the Book Review
As the publication celebrates its 125th anniversary, Parul Sehgal, a staff critic and former editor at the Book Review, delves into the archives to critically examine its legacy in full.
Credit.Leigh Wells
Feb. 26, 2021
Halfway through “Lolita,” Humbert Humbert relaxed, triumphant and a mere pinch of pages away from his downfall stops to extol the wonders of America. He has dragged his 12-year-old quarry on a road trip across the country, a perversion of a honeymoon. He slips into French to marvel at all they have seen. “
Nous connûmes,” he purrs, borrowing “a Flaubertian intonation”