How the movement for suffrage played out in The Times
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Here’s your weekly catch-up on everything you need to know going on in the book world. |
- To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, we pored over our archives to see how the fight for suffrage played out in The Times. Separately, in a new book, “Finish the Fight!,” New York Times journalists tell the stories of lesser-known figures in the battle to make the 19th Amendment a reality.
- Long underrepresented in genre fiction, Native American and First Nations authors are changing sci-fi. As one author put it: “The only way I know who I am and who my community is, and the ways in which we survive and adapt, is through stories.”
- Fiction out today: “Grown Ups,” by Emma Jane Unsworth; “The Glass Kingdom,” by Lawrence Osborne.
- Nonfiction out today: “Soul Full of Coal Dust,” by Chris Hamby; “Show Them You’re Good,” by Jeff Hobbs; “Borges and Me,” by Jay Parini; “Reaganland,” by Rick Perlstein; “The Organ Thieves,” by Chip Jones; “Time of the Magicians,” by Wolfram Eilenberger; “The Smallest Lights in the Universe,” by Sara Seager; “God’s Shadow,” by Alan Mikhail.
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- Dwight Garner reviews “Summer,” the final installment of Ali Smith’s seasonal quartet of novels. In the series, Smith has kept pace with the world’s events, even introducing Covid-19 to the plot this time around. “To properly enter this novel, as with the previous books in the series, you’ve got to be willing to get a bit lost,” Garner writes. “In Smith’s hands, stories slipstream in the wake of other stories; dreams are tucked up under the armpits of serious shifts in time and space. There are no directional arrows Scotch-taped to the floor.”
- The family at the center of “The Erratics,” a new memoir by Vicki Laveau-Harvie, features a mother with a flair for inventive and major lies. As Parul Sehgal writes in her review: “Laveau-Harvie depicts her mother neither as a riddle to be solved nor as a woman to be understood, but as an implacable act of nature, who must only be survived.”
- And in “Time of the Magicians,” Wolfram Eilenberger traces the life and times of four transformational philosophers in the 1920s. Jennifer Szalai offers high praise: “Eilenberger is a terrific storyteller, unearthing vivid details that show how the philosophies of these men weren’t the arid products of abstract speculation but vitally connected to their temperaments and experiences.”
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