New York Review of Books book reviews
10 of the 13 New York Review of Books reviews here with a stated verdict were positive.
Verdict not statedLook What You Made Me Do · John LanchesterVerdict not statedBaldwin · Nicholas BoggsVerdict not statedLong Island · Colm TóibínVerdict not statedVigil · George SaundersVerdict not statedShadow Ticket · Thomas PynchonVerdict not statedThe Palm House · Gwendoline RileyVerdict not statedWill There Ever Be Another You · Patricia Lockwood“catching Covid intensifies her relationship to language”PositiveKids, Wait Till You Hear This! · Liza Minnelli“riveting memoir”MixedMuskism · Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff“selling a vision of the future that very few people would want to inhabit”PositiveOn Antisemitism · Mark Mazower“A nuanced new history by Mark Mazower”PositiveI Deliver Parcels in Beijing · Hu Anyan“disarmingly direct about the human cost of modern logistics”MixedPatriot · Alexei Navalny“remains strangely detached from history”PositiveShattered · Hanif Kureishi“astonishing memoir of his life after the fall”Verdict not statedAudition · Katie KitamuraPositiveHelen of Nowhere · Makenna Goodman“offers up an exhilarating myth for men who need to be shuffled offstage”Verdict not statedReagan: His Life and Legend · Max BootRaveThe Poems of Seamus Heaney · Seamus Heaney“confirm the extent of his achievement”RaveTranscription · Ben Lerner“dazzling new novel”Verdict not statedWaste Wars · Alexander ClappVerdict not statedWhat in Me Is Dark · Orlando ReadeVerdict not statedI Give You My Silence · Mario Vargas LlosaPositiveService · John Tottenham“hilarious debut novel about a wage worker in a bookstore”Verdict not statedThose Passions: on art and politics · T. J. ClarkPositiveEvery Valley: The Story of Handel's Messiah · Charles King“Hallelujah!”Verdict not statedThe Effingers · Gabriele TergitMixed107 Days · Kamala Harris“succeeds at least in distilling the evasions and weaknesses of the modern Democratic Party”PositiveWages for Housework · Emily Callaci“a new book recovers the daring ideas of a movement”Verdict not statedMemories of a Catholic Girlhood · Mary McCarthy