The New Yorker book reviews
7 of the 14 The New Yorker reviews here with a stated verdict were positive.
PanCommunion · J. D. Vance“it’s strangely disdainful of the faith he has joined”Verdict not statedBaldwin · Nicholas BoggsVerdict not statedLife of M · Rachel CuskVerdict not statedThe Disappearers · Marlon JamesVerdict not statedOur Evenings · Alan HollinghurstVerdict not statedBig Kiss, Bye-Bye · Claire-Louise BennettPositiveExit Party · Emily St John Mandel“an elegant crime story with sci-fi shadings”MixedFamesick · Lena Dunham“Cautionary Tale of Filmmakers Doing TV”Verdict not statedMurderland · Caroline FraserVerdict not statedOn the Calculation of Volume III · Solvej BalleRavePerfection · Vincenzo Latronico“the Perfect Novel for an Age of Aimless Aspiration”Verdict not statedThe Mission · Tim WeinerVerdict not statedThe Palm House · Gwendoline RileyVerdict not statedTheory & Practice · Michelle de KretserVerdict not statedTriage · Claudia RankineVerdict not statedWhen Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows · Steven PinkerVerdict not statedAll the Way to the River · Elizabeth GilbertVerdict not statedGirl on Girl · Sophie GilbertPositiveHomework · Geoff Dyer“Wrings Playfulness from Pain”Verdict not statedKids, Wait Till You Hear This! · Liza MinnelliVerdict not statedMy Friends · Hisham Matar“Hisham Matar’s Latest Novel Explores a Divided Soul”Verdict not statedMy Good Bright Wolf · Sarah Moss“recounts a dangerous romance with self-deprivation”Verdict not statedOn Antisemitism · Mark MazowerVerdict not statedPan · Michael CluneVerdict not statedRuth · Kate RileyVerdict not statedSmall Rain · Garth GreenwellVerdict not statedThe Revolutionists · Jason BurkeVerdict not statedThe Score · C. Thi NguyenPanTwist · Colum McCann“Limp Novel of Digital Life”Verdict not statedWe Did OK, Kid: A Memoir · Anthony HopkinsPositiveWhen the Going Was Good · Graydon Carter“Graydon Carter’s Wild Ride Through a Golden Age of Magazines”Verdict not statedA Voyage Around the Queen · Craig BrownPanAmerican Canto · Olivia NuzziVerdict not statedAmong Friends · Hal EbbottVerdict not statedCapitalism · Sven BeckertVerdict not statedEntitlement · Rumaan AlamVerdict not statedGabriel's Moon · William BoydVerdict not statedGood Girl · Aria AberVerdict not statedHum · Helen Phillips“imagines a dystopian world where humans have outsourced their best selves”Verdict not statedKing of Kings · Scott AndersonVerdict not statedKingmaker · Sonia PurnellMixedLázár · Nelio Biedermann“well-rehearsed story of twentieth-century Europe”Verdict not statedThe Book of Records · Madeleine ThienVerdict not statedThe Boundless Deep · Richard HolmesVerdict not statedThe Place of Tides · James RebanksVerdict not statedAmbivalence · Brian DillonVerdict not statedDeath and the Gardener · Georgi GospodinovVerdict not statedFire Exit · Morgan TaltyVerdict not statedI Regret Almost Everything · Keith McNallyVerdict not statedLost Lambs · Madeline CashVerdict not statedOpen Socrates · Agnes CallardVerdict not statedReagan: His Life and Legend · Max BootVerdict not statedRejection · Tony TulathimutteVerdict not statedThe South · Tash AwPositiveTranscription · Ben Lerner“The Ample Rewards of Ben Lerner’s Slender New Novel”Verdict not statedWhat in Me Is Dark · Orlando ReadeVerdict not statedDream State · Eric PuchnerVerdict not statedLetters · Oliver SacksVerdict not statedLiars · Sarah MangusoVerdict not statedMy Name Is Emilia del Valle · Isabel AllendeVerdict not statedStranger than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel · Edwin FrankVerdict not statedThe Odd Woman and the City · Vivian GornickPositiveThe Season · Helen GarnerVerdict not statedThe Silence of the Choir · Mohamed Mbougar SarrVerdict not statedThe Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia and the World’s Most Coveted Microchip · Stephen WittMixedThe Vivisectors · Missouri Williams“A Trollish New Campus Novel Hates Students and Professors Alike”Verdict not statedEvery Valley: The Story of Handel's Messiah · Charles KingVerdict not statedIt Girl · Marisa MeltzerVerdict not statedKilling the Dead · John BlairVerdict not statedMood Machine · Liz PellyVerdict not statedThe Adversary · Michael CrummeyVerdict not statedThe Boyhood of Cain · Michael AmherstMixedThe Message · Ta-Nehisi Coates“Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Temptations of Narrative”Verdict not statedUnder the Eye of the Big Bird · Hiromi KawakamiVerdict not statedAnother Man in the Street · Caryl PhillipsVerdict not statedBacktalker · Kimberlé CrenshawVerdict not statedCannon · Lee LaiVerdict not statedEverything Evolves · Mark VellendVerdict not statedPlaying Possum · Susana MonsóVerdict not statedSlow Poison · Mahmood MamdaniVerdict not statedThe Book of Abba · Jan GradvallVerdict not statedToni at Random · Dana A. WilliamsVerdict not statedAuthority: Essays on Being Right · Andrea Long ChuVerdict not statedDarkenbloom · Eva MenasseVerdict not statedMorbid · Saul Justin NewmanVerdict not statedMultitudes: How Crowds Made the Modern World · Dan HancoxVerdict not statedQuarterlife · Devika RegePositiveThe Evin Prison Bakers’ Club · Sepideh Gholian“the inspirational cookbook by the Nobel Peace Prize-winning author Sepideh Gholian”Verdict not statedThe Innocents of Florence · Joseph Luzzi“The Grim Resonance of “The Innocents of Florence”