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

(Antfer) #1

4 S UNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2021


WHERE THE DEER AND THE ANTELOPE


PLAY: The Pastoral Observations of One
Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk
Outside,by Nick Offerman, read by the
author. (Penguin Audio.) On his travels
around America (including a cross-
country excursion in an Airstream
trailer), the actor reflects on what this
land and its people mean to him.

COKIE: A Life Well Lived,by Steven V.
Roberts, read by the author. (Harper-
Audio.) A biography of the pioneering
NPR journalist Cokie Roberts, as told
by her husband of 53 years.

WILD TONGUES CAN’T BE TAMED: 15 Voices From the Latinx
Diaspora,edited by Saraciea J. Fennell, read by the author and a
full cast. (Macmillan Audio.) The Bronx Is Reading founder has
compiled an anthology of original nonfiction — by Elizabeth
Acevedo, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Ibi Zoboi, Naima Coster and
more — revealing a vast spectrum of Latinx experience.

SOCIAL JUSTICE PARENTING: How to Raise Compassionate,
Anti-Racist, Justice-Minded Kids in an Unjust World,by Traci
Baxley, read by the author. (HarperAudio.) A guide to introduc-
ing young people to the civil rights landscape of today, by a
diversity and inclusion educator.

THE DAWN OF EVERYTHING: A New History of Humanity,by
David Graeber and David Wengrow, read by Mark Williams.
(Macmillan Audio.) An all-encompassing treatise on modern
civilization, offering bold revisions to canonical understandings
in sociology, anthropology, archaeology and political philosophy
that led to where we are today.

THE ART OF REVISION: The Last Word, by Peter Ho Davies.
(Graywolf, paper, $14.) A writer draws on his experience teach-
ing at the University of Michigan and uses the works of writers
like Flannery O’Connor, Carmen Maria Machado, Raymond
Carver and himself to reflect on the beauty and importance of
revising fiction.

MURAKAMI T: The T-Shirts I Love,by
Haruki Murakami. (Knopf, $25.) In
pieces written for a Japanese fashion
magazine, the celebrated author goes
through his collection of T-shirts, exam-
ining the memories, hobbies and con-
sumerist aspects that they symbolize.

RECLAMATION: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descend-
ant’s Search for Her Family’s Lasting Legacy,by Gayle Jessup
White. (Amistad, $27.99.) A descendant of the Jefferson and
Hemings families writes her life story, bringing the exploration of
her ancestry and the white Jefferson descendants’ refusal to
acknowledge their Black relatives into a national racial reckon-
ing and cleareyed look at slavery’s legacy.

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