Reviewed in the LRB - Vol. 44 No. 22
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The first biography of the extraordinary essayist, critic, and short story writer Elizabeth Hardwick, author of the semiautobiographical novel Sleepless Nights.Born in Kentucky, Elizabeth Hardwick left for New York City on a Greyhound…
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The first short story collection in ten years from the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo'The only way to experience Saunders's oblique, farcical, tragic world is to dive right in.…
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An investigation into the evolution of the seven-day week and how our attachment to its rhythms influences how we live “[Henkin] scours American literature, diaries, periodicals, menus and other ephemera from as far back as the…
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'A wonderful and sometimes devastating book ... sophisticated, nuanced, fair-minded and yet very hard hitting' SIMON KUPER'This will transport you to Qatar and teach you with humanity and empathy some of the dark truths about globalisation'…
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A splendid new translation of an extraordinary work of modern literature-featuring facing-page commentary by Kafka's acclaimed biographerIn 1917 and 1918, Franz Kafka wrote a set of more than 100 aphorisms, known as the Zurau aphorisms,…
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An NYRB Classics OriginalJune 2022 selection of the NYRB Classics Book ClubThe Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick is a companion collection to The Collected Essays, a book that proved a revelation of what, for many, had been…
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERPICKED BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT, IRISH TIMES, SPECTATOR, TLS, NEW STATESMAN, MAIL ON SUNDAY, I…
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FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR'A belter of a thriller' The Times'A master storyteller' Observer'An important book for our particular historical moment' Guardian'From what is it they flee?'He took a while…
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