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.
Blessings and Disasters
By Alexis Okeowo
Minority voices ring out in this affecting memoir of the South.
A recap of the books we’ve spotlighted in the past few days.
