The New York Review of Books - USA (2021-11-21)

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 13 MISDIRECTION CAN BEas useful a trick in storytelling as it is in magic. It may be tempting to ...

14 S UNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2021 WHEN ELIZABETH HARDWICK left Ken- tucky in 1939 to enroll in a Ph.D. program at Columbia, she hope ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 15 WHEN HUMA ABEDINwas a young, single aide to Hillary Clinton, she was already a subject of grea ...

16 S UNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2021 ON THE MORNINGof Oct. 27, 2018, my hus- band and I were getting ready to take our daughter to the ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 17 O BEAUTIFUL (St. Martin’s, 320 pp., $27.99), Jung Yun’s mes- merizing and timely second novel, ...

18 S UNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2021 FOR THOSE OF USlucky enough to sidestep the most severe impacts of the natural and man-made disast ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 19 JOY TAKES HOLDin the brain, or the soul, when it takes place at all. For some of us it also dr ...

20 S UNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2021 Story” with some apprehension. Not be- cause I disagree with the project’s basic aim, but because ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 21 Blacks from most benefits. The systematic “redlining” of Black neighborhoods in both North and ...

22 S UNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2021 TOMATOES FOR NEELA Written by Padma Lakshmi. Illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal. A twinkly-eyed In ...

T HE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 2 3 THE SENTENCE,by Louise Erdrich. (Harper/HarperCol- lins, $28.99.)Erdrich’s playful wit and c ...

24 S UNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2021 ................................................... In MemoriamIn 2019, not long be- fore Rachel H ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 25 MONTHLY BEST SELLERS SALES PERIOD OF OCTOBER 3-30 THIS MONTH MONTHS ON LIST 1 MOTHERING HEIGHT ...

26 S UNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2021 HOWDIE-SKELP By Paul Muldoon 179 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $27. “Howdie-skelp”: the slap a ...

T HE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 2 7 On the 200th anniversary of the Russian writer’s birth, revisiting one of the defining momen ...

28 S U N D AY , N O V E M B E R 2 1 , 2 0 2 1 ...