16 posts tagged ‘Magazine / Books’
Briefly Noted Book Reviews
The New Yorker,
“A Shining,” “Brooklyn Crime Novel,” “Klan War,” and “Earlier.”
The Forgotten Giant of Yiddish Fiction
Though his younger brother Isaac Bashevis Singer eventually eclipsed him, Israel Joshua Singer excelled at showing characters buffeted by the tides of history.
The Morality of Having Kids in a Burning, Drowning World
Two recent books, “The Quickening” and “The Parenthood Dilemma,” consider the ethics of procreation in the age of man-made climate change.
Briefly Noted Book Reviews
“Fear Is Just a Word,” “Beyond the Wall,” “Let Us Descend,” and “The Love of Singular Men.”
What if Nostalgia Isn’t What It Used to Be?
As our faith in the future plummets and the present blends with the past, we doomscroll and catastrophize and feel certain that we’ve reached the point where history has fallen apart.
“My Name Is Barbra,” Reviewed: Streisand’s Mother of All Memoirs
In “My Name Is Barbra,” the icon takes a maximalist approach to her own life, studying every trial, triumph, and snack food of a six-decade career.
What the Doomsayers Get Wrong About Deepfakes
Experts have warned that utterly realistic A.I.-generated videos might wreak havoc through deception. What’s happened is troubling in a different way.
Briefly Noted Book Reviews
“Flee North,” “Mapping the Darkness,” “A Council of Dolls,” and “January.”