LAS VEGAS — On a recent very warm Saturday afternoon, just a few blocks northeast of a string of ramshackle chapels offering Elvis-themed weddings on Las Vegas Boulevard, novelist Tommy Orange was discussing the critical reception given to “There There,” his polyphonic novel about contemporary Native Americans.
The New York Review of Books has installed two editors to lead the magazine after being without a top editor since the sudden departure of Ian Buruma in September. Rea Hederman, publisher of the intellectual journal, announced Monday that Emily Greenhouse, 32, and Gabriel Winslow-Yost, 33, have been named co-editors, and that Daniel Mendelsohn, a longtime contributor to the Review, will assume the newly created role of editor at large.Entertainment6 Aug 2024
(5 Things About Your Book): In May 2015, Christie’s sold Pablo Picasso’s “Women of Algiers” for $179.4 million, the highest price for a painting at auction up to that point. Two and a half years later, Christie’s sold Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi,” a portrait of Christ, for $450.3 million. In his new book, “The Last Leonardo,” author and documentary filmmaker Ben Lewis writes about the painting’s twisty, contentious road to the auction block and beyond.
(5 Things About Your Book): Reviewing Emilie Pine’s “Notes to Self” in The Irish Times, Martina Evans wrote: “It’s the kind of book you want to give to everyone, especially young women and men, so that we can learn together to take ourselves and each other more seriously.”
As subtitles go, the one Laurence Scott chose for his new book, “Picnic Comma Lightning,” is certainly on the ambitious side: “The Experience of Reality in the Twenty-First Century.”
(Five Things About Your Book): If you like your memoirs to revolve around singular experiences, Lara Prior-Palmer’s “Rough Magic” delivers. In 2013, having recently turned 19, Prior-Palmer decided — on a whim — to enter the Mongol Derby, a rugged long-distance horse race. The competition asks participants to race for several days over 1,000 kilometers of Mongolian grassland, on a series of 25 wild ponies (a new horse every 40 kilometers).
Melissa Rivero is a lawyer and now a debut novelist. As a child, she was an immigrant from Peru, living in the country illegally in New York City. Her book, “The Affairs of the Falcóns,” is about Ana and Lucho, a married couple who, in the 1990s, flee a tumultuous Peru with their two children to live in New York. The novel focuses on Ana and her attempts to forge a future while navigating the hurdles faced by an undocumented resident. Despite the parallels to her own family’s experience, Rive...
(5 Things About Your Book): David Carr’s sudden death in 2015, at 58, left a jarring absence here at The New York Times, where he was a reporter and media columnist beloved by colleagues.
(5 Things About Your Book): David Carr’s sudden death in 2015, at 58, left a jarring absence here at The New York Times, where he was a reporter and media columnist beloved by colleagues.
The remarkable number of notable writers who have studied or taught at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop includes Flannery O’Connor, Robert Lowell, Dylan Thomas, Rita Dove, Sandra Cisneros, Kurt Vonnegut, John Irving and Marilynne Robinson.
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