The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s standout fiction and nonfiction.
Tag: Writing and Writers
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The Search for Beauty in a Prison Cell
Prison, particularly for Black Americans, gets reduced to simple caricatures of violence and suffering. Inside the confines of a jail cell, through a book, I discovered salvation.
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‘Love and Rockets,’ a Series that Helped Redefine Comics, Turns 40
With its Chicana punk rockers and panels of untranslated Spanish, “Rockets” was unlike anything else — and, it turns out, just what the world of comics was craving.
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Anton Filatov, Ukrainian Film Critic, Drafted Into Real-Life War
Anton Filatov was pulled into a theater he never expected or wanted to enter: the front lines of war, where he now writes movingly of the scene in the trenches instead of what’s on the screen.
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Michael J. Gerson, Presidential Speechwriter and Columnist, Dies at 58
He composed many of George W. Bush’s signature addresses, and later, as a writer for The Washington Post, took a stand against Donald J. Trump.