The New York Times - Book Review - USA (2022-02-06)

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 3

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Book Review FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Fiction & Poetry

7 Historical Fiction
Reviewed by Alida Becker

10 JOAN IS OKAY
By Weike Wang
Reviewed by Deesha Philyaw

12 Group Text
“Black Cake,”
by Charmaine Wilkerson
Reviewed by Elisabeth Egan

14 On Poetry
Reviewed by Elisa Gabbert

15 GOLIATH
By Tochi Onyebuchi
Reviewed by Benjamin Markovits

22 The Shortlist
Family Complications
Reviewed by Patrick Nathan

Nonfiction

1 KINGDOM OF CHARACTERS
The Language Revolution That
Made China Modern
By Jing Tsu
Reviewed by Deirdre Mask

1 RED CARPET
Hollywood, China, and the Global
Battle for Cultural Supremacy
By Erich Schwartzel
Reviewed by James Parker

8 AFTERMATH
Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich,
1945-
By Harald Jähner
Reviewed by Peter Fritzsche

9 SEVEN GAMES
A Human History
By Oliver Roeder
Reviewed by Peter Sagal

11 GOD

An Anatomy

By Francesca Stavrakopoulou

Reviewed by Karen Armstrong

13 MOST DOPE

The Extraordinary Life of Mac Miller

By Paul Cantor

Reviewed by Dave Kim

13 HIGH-RISK HOMOSEXUAL

A Memoir

By Edgar Gomez

Reviewed by John Paul Brammer

22 The Shortlist

Family Complications

Reviewed by Patrick Nathan

Children’s Books

18 THE ORIGINAL BAMBI

The Story of a Life in the Forest

By Felix Salten

Illustrated by Alenka Sottler

Reviewed by Bill McKibben

Features

6 By the Book

Jason Reynolds

23 Graphic Review

“White Noise”

By Jason Adam Katzenstein

Etc.

4 Newly Published

5 Letters

19 Best-Seller Lists

19 Editors’ Choice

20 Inside the List

20 Paperback Row

Finally, the Definitive

Biography of One of the Most

Significant 20th Century Artists:

F l o r i n e S t e t t h e i m e r

A V A I L A B L E N O W

“For anyone interested in the messy, exhil-

arating tale of early American modernism,

this is essential reading....It is the definitive

account of one of the era’s great artists.”

Andrew Russeth

“In this remarkable biography, Bloemink

reveals Florine Stettheimer’s determined

feminism, subversive social conscious-

ness, artistic significance and her continu-

ing relevance at a critical time for women

in the art world.”

Linda Nochlin