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sábado, 23 de outubro de 2021

125 anos: The New York Times Review of Books - seleção de resenhas (Jean-Paul Sartre, o último livro de Conan Doyle, etc.)


Dear Reader, 

Contributors to this week’s issue include Vladimir NabokovMario PuzoNeil SheehanDiane JohnsonJames Baldwin and Roger Angell, among others. It includes reviews of worthwhile new titles including “Ulysses,” “Song of Solomon,” “O Pioneers!” and the latest book by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Have I gotten lost in time? Maybe I have, slightly. And so will you after paging through this week’s special 125th anniversary issue, a keepsake edition that includes some of the most groundbreaking, surprising and absorbing literary coverage and criticism that has run in our pages since 1896. The entire issue is the brainchild of deputy editor Tina Jordan, who also edited a glorious companion book with dozens of additional archival gems, available forpreorder.

If it’s more contemporary work you’re interested in, check out this week’s podcast, which features Farah Stockman, editorial board member of The New York Times, talking about her new book, “American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears.” And my colleague John Williams speaks to the Chilean writer Benjamín Labatut about his new book, “When We Cease to Understand the World.”

Please stay in touch and let us know what you think — whether it’s about this newsletter, our reviews, our podcast, our literary calendar, our Instagram or what you’re reading. We read and ponder all of it. I even write back, albeit belatedly. You can email me at books@nytimes.com.

Pamela Paul

Editor of The New York Times Book Review


FICTION & POETRY

From The Book Review Archives

Review: ‘Nausea,’ by Jean-Paul Sartre

Vladimir Nabokov wondered in 1949 whether the French existentialist’s novel was even worth translating.

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Review: ‘O Pioneers!’ by Willa Cather

In 1913, The Times declared Cather’s “novel without a hero” to be “American in the best sense of the word.”

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Review: ‘Ulysses,’ by James Joyce

Our reviewer called “Ulysses” the “most important contribution that has been made to fictional literature in the 20th century.” That doesn’t mean he liked it.

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Review: ‘Song of Solomon,’ by Toni Morrison

In the deep, sprawling 1977 story of Milkman Dead, the reviewer Reynolds Price found evidence for “the possibility of transcendence within human life.”

By Reynolds Price

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Review: ‘The Golden Notebook,’ by Doris Lessing

In 1962, our reviewer described this radically feminist novel — now considered Lessing’s most influential work — as “a coruscating literary event.”

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Review: ‘The Joy Luck Club,’ by Amy Tan

In this 1989 novel, a young woman comes to understand her place in a Chinese family — and in the world — through visits with her aging aunts.

By Orville Schell

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From The Book Review Archives

Review: ‘Roots,’ by Alex Haley

James Baldwin, reviewing this headline-making novel in 1976, called it “a study of … how each generation helps to doom, or helps to liberate, the coming one.”

By James Baldwin

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Review: ‘The Bell Jar,’ by Sylvia Plath

To our reviewer, the poet’s novel was “the kind of book Salinger’s Franny might have written about herself 10 years later, if she had spent those 10 years in Hell.”

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Review: ‘The Complete Stories,’ by Flannery O’Connor

This collection — which appeared seven years after the Southern Gothic writer’s death in 1964 — was reviewed by Alfred Kazin.

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Review: ‘The Road,’ by Cormac McCarthy

In 2006, our reviewer correctly predicted that this father-son tale would eclipse the popularity of McCarthy’s 1992 hit, “All the Pretty Horses.”

By William Kennedy

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Review: ‘The Lost World,’ by Arthur Conan Doyle

Dinosaurs in the 20th century? In 1912, Sherlock Holmes’s creator invented the template that Michael Crichton would follow almost eight decades later.

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Review: ‘Hannibal,’ by Thomas Harris

Eleven years after “The Silence of the Lambs,” Hannibal Lecter returned. Stephen King called him “the great fictional monster of our time.”

By Stephen King

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Review: ‘Wolf Hall,’ by Hilary Mantel

This fictional portrait of Henry VIII’s scheming aide Thomas Cromwell — the first volume in a trilogy — won the Man Booker Prize in 2009.

By Christopher Benfey

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Review: ‘The Street,’ by Ann Petry

This classic story of a single mother’s struggle against poverty, published in 1946, would become the first novel by a Black woman to sell a million copies.

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Review: ‘The Age of Innocence,’ by Edith Wharton

This tale of Gilded Age New York City became, in 1921, the first novel by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize.

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Review: ‘White Teeth,’ by Zadie Smith

A satirical, multigenerational family saga set during the waning of the colonial British Empire, this 2000 debut established its author as a prodigy of the novel form.

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From The Book Review Archives

Classic Crime Novels That Still Thrill Today

Here’s how we reviewed now-famous mysteries by the likes of Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Dorothy Sayers, Dashiell Hammett and more.

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Review: ‘The Makioka Sisters,’ by Junichiro Tanizaki

A classic Japanese novel echoes Jane Austen, with instructive contrasts.

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Review: ‘Color,’ by Countee Cullen

In 1925, the Book Review raved about the “sensitive” love poems and “piercing” satire from a young star of the Harlem Renaissance.

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Review: ‘Sister Carrie,’ by Theodore Dreiser

The novel’s headline-making candor and explicitness led the Book Review to assure its readers, “It is a book one can very well get along without reading.”

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NONFICTION

From The Book Review Archives

Review: ‘Eat, Pray, Love,’ by Elizabeth Gilbert

Reeling from a divorce, a writer sought solace in Italy, India and Indonesia. There, she found peace — and plenty of material for a blockbuster memoir.

By Jennifer Egan

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Review: ‘The Death and Life of Great American Cities,’ by Jane Jacobs

This 1961 masterwork offered new, vibrant ways to think about how city neighborhoods ought to look.

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Review: ‘The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book’

When Toklas — Gertrude Stein’s partner — published this cookbook, it was reviewed by Rex Stout, the creator of the food-loving detective Nero Wolfe.

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Review: ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People,’ by Dale Carnegie

The blockbuster forerunner of today’s self-help guides was both sensible and superficial, according to The Times’s reviewer in 1937.

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Review: ‘The Jeweler’s Eye,’ by William F. Buckley Jr.

Mario Puzo, who reviewed this collection of the conservative thinker's essays, found himself charmed despite the politics.

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Review: ‘The Liars’ Club,’ by Mary Karr

The Times would later call this 1995 memoir of a hardscrabble Texas childhood “one of the best books ever written about growing up in America.”

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Review: Books About Babe Ruth

In 1974, Roger Angell celebrated four new biographies of the Bambino.

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Review: ‘Between the World and Me,’ by Ta-Nehisi Coates

This 2015 homage to James Baldwin identified racism at the heart of the American dream.

By Michelle Alexander

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