The New York Times Book Review - USA (2020-11-15)

BFB1 ABE David S. Reynolds looks at Lincoln in the context of his era MALCOLM XMichael P. Jeffries reviews a new biography PLUSN ...

2 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2020 NEW FROM DON DELILLO—ONE OF THE MOST DAZZLING AND ESSENTIAL VOICES IN AMERICAN FICTION ALSO AVAILABL ...

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4 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2020 THE GLORIOUS AMERICAN ESSAY: ONE HUNDRED ESSAYS FROM COLONIAL TIMES TO THE PRESENT,edited by Phillip ...

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6 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2020 Christopher Hitchens will have to take Tom Bissell’s word for it, in his review of Martin Amis’s “In ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 7 What books are on your night stand? None [laughs]. Let me explain. Right now, I’m in the Bahama ...

8 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2020 FINALLY FINISHEDHilary Man- tel’s Cromwell opus and think you might be suffering from Tudor fatigue? ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 9 AMY BRUNI TALKSabout her job as if she’s a guest sitting next to you at a dinner party, making ...

10 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2020 RALPH ELLISON SAIDthat “some people are your relatives but others are your an- cestors, and you cho ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 11 JESS WALTER HASfashioned his eighth nov- el, “The Cold Millions,” out of the free speech riots ...

12 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2020 OF THE 16,000 BOOKSproduced about Abra- ham Lincoln since his death 155 years ago, not one, in the ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 13 WE DOG PEOPLEare incorrigible, so after dutifully reading the first few essays in Claire Messu ...

14 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2020 WHEN MARTIN PUCHNERwas growing up in a rowhouse in Nuremberg in the early 1970s, strangers would sh ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 15 IN THE 1990SDaniel Yergin emerged as one of the great chroniclers of our day. Both “The Prize, ...

16 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2020 LES PAYNE’S“The Dead Are Arising” ar- rives in late 2020, bequeathed to an Amer- ica choked by raci ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 17 IT’S LATE 2016,and Eva Lindquist is dis- traught. The chilly, exacting Upper West Side sociali ...

18 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2020 MANY STORIES OFdiasporic families lead from the heart, playing on the sentimental- ity and nostalgi ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 19 BY THE TIME Andrea Yates drowned her children, she be- lieved that Satan was inside her, and t ...

20 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2020 for decades? Along with the prognostica- tions we’re also getting postgnostications (it’s not my ne ...