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On our cover this week: "Afterlives," the 10th novel from Abdulrazak Gurnah, who won last year's Nobel Prize in Literature. Imbolo Mbue, who reviews it for us, writes that "'Afterlives' may be an exploration of imperialism and war and the minor, untold stories that get lost in the major, oft-repeated ones, but it is equally a love story." |
The rest of the issue is packed with books I would like to read but haven't found time for yet: K-Ming Chang's short stories, "Gods of Want"; Isaac Fitzgerald's memoir, "Dirtbag, Massachusetts"; Alec Nevala-Lee's biography of Buckminster Fuller, "Inventor of the Future"; and "Complicit," the novel by Winnie M Li that was Elisabeth Egan's August Group Text pick. |
You'll find the contents of this week's issue below. Please let me know what you think — not just about these reviews, but about our other coverage, too. If you have time, tell me what you're reading! I'm still grappling with Olga Tokarczuk's "The Books of Jacob" (the struggle is real, folks) but I'm tearing through Tess Gunty's "The Rabbit Hutch," which I'm loving. (On TV: "London Kills" and "The Cleaner," which is definitely an acquired taste.) |
You can email me at books@nytimes.com. I read every letter sent, and I answer as many of them as I can. Some weeks I do pretty well; other weeks, less so. |
Tina Jordan
Deputy Editor, The New York Times Book Review
@TinaJordanNYT |
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