A peek at what’s on tap this week.
A recap of the books we’ve spotlighted in the past few days.
Autocorrect
By Etgar Keret; translated by Jessica Cohen and Sondra Silverston
These fantastical tales reveal poignant everyday truths.
Revealing: The Underrated Power of Oversharing
By Leslie John
Turns out, TMI isn’t always a bad thing.
Yñiga: A Novel
By Glenn Diaz
Amid unrest in the Philippines, a tormented woman seeks solace in sleep.
An occasional series in which writers speak for themselves.
A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies
By David Thomson
Strangely, the author knocks the very medium he spotlights.
Agrippa: A Novel of Ancient Rome’s Descent into Dictatorship
By Robert Harris
A dynamic figure from antiquity is rendered oddly lifeless.
Smut: An 1883 Obscenity Trial and Its Echoes Today
By Carol Kammen
Controlling women then; controlling women now.
Mired in Irrational Admiration
By Stephanie Dupal
On the nature and artifice of being stuck.
