Suicide, tragedy: new books from Rhodes and Thomas
To be read ASAP: Dan Rhodes has a new book out — about a suicide museum — and Scarlett Thomas’ Our Tragic Universe appears in the U.S. this fall.
To be read ASAP: Dan Rhodes has a new book out — about a suicide museum — and Scarlett Thomas’ Our Tragic Universe appears in the U.S. this fall.
“You are a New Yorker the first time you say, That used to be Munsey’s…” Finally getting around to Colson Whitehead’s The Colossus of New York.
Emma Garman admires Afghan novelist & filmmaker Atiq Rahimi’s The Patience Stone, “a slender, devastating exploration of one woman’s tormented inner life.”
Joan Schenkar, who is equally engaging in person, explains in a New Yorker live chat how she came to write a biography of Patricia Highsmith.
At last. Edward Said: The Charisma of Criticism, the biography by my friend and former professor H. Aram Veeser, appears next month. See also.