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4 days ago · March 29, 2024. Earlier this month, the Book Review’s staff critics — Dwight Garner, Alexandra Jacobs and Jennifer Szalai — released a list of 22 novels they have found reliably funny since Joseph Heller’s landmark comic novel “Catch-22” came out in 1961. On this week’s episode, they tell Gilbert Cruz why “Catch-2…. 00:30:33.
Jan 1, 2024 · Reviewing a collection of Tom Wolfe’s journalism, Hitchens deplored Wolfe’s affectations and his plummy conservative politics. In the 1960s, he writes, Wolfe made people “feel self-conscious ...
Sep 26, 2023 · The new book by Adam Nagourney offers an in-depth look at how a newspaper navigated reporting challenges, financial crises and the transition to the digital era. The New York Times’s executive ...
Nov 15, 2018 · Green Book. Directed by Peter Farrelly. Biography, Comedy, Drama. PG-13. 2h 10m. By A.O. Scott. Nov. 15, 2018. “Green Book” is a road movie set in 1962, long before Apple or Google Maps or ...
Colm Tóibín’s 2009 novel “Brooklyn” told the story of a meek young Irishwoman, Eilis Lacey, who emigrates to New York in the 1950s out of a sense of familial obligation and slowly, diligently begins building a new life for herself. A New York Times best seller, the book was also adapted into an Oscar-nominated movie starring Saoirse ...
Oct 22, 2009 · When style and subject merge, tics recede into invisibility. The turbocharged plot of “Chronic City” is too intricate and seamless, and also too odd, to summarize easily. It involves migraines ...
Feb 25, 2024 · In “Burn Book: A Tech Love Story,” the pioneering journalist recounts a life in, and of, Silicon Valley. Share full article. After decades as a tech insider, Kara Swisher became, in her words ...
