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Two of our recommended books this week put rock music front and center: Peter Ames Carlin’s biography of the band R.E.M., and Izumi Suzuki’s novel of Tokyo’s rock scene in the early 1980s. We also like a biography of the physicist Roger Penrose, a study of the 20th-century novel, and fiction by Elias Khoury and Sergio De La Pava. Happy reading. — Gregory Cowles STRANGER THAN FICTION: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel Edwin Frank Frank is the editorial director of New York Review Books, the publishing arm of the intellectual journal, and founder of its Classics series, which revives old works, many in translation. In this history of the novel he embraces works that shock, not soothe, and maps a path from Dostoyevsky to Sebald, finding surprising ties among 20th-century writers. “One closes the rousing and fully committed ‘Stranger Than Fiction’ … feeling hunger for a big new novel that confronts today’s America.” From Alexandra Jacobs’s review Farrar, Straus & Giroux | $33 THE NAME OF THIS BAND IS R.E.M.: A Biography Peter Ames Carlin With its jangly guitars, wistful harmonies and perfectly shaped songs, the indispensable rock band R.E.M. was magic from the start, a college radio darling in the early ’80s before breaking into the mainstream. Carlin’s biography chronicles its rise in the music scene of Athens, Ga., and the evolution of its sound. “That Carlin pays such close attention to how many people had a hand in the band’s early success gives his book a spirited communal vibe. … Here was a new generation, knocking at the door, making music that made you aware of the hairs on the back of your neck.” From Dwight Garner’s review Doubleday | $32 More in Book Review Alice in Moominland Nov. 15, 2024 John Singer Sargent Painted Them. London Society Talked. Nov. 21, 2024 7 New Books We Recommend This Week Nov. 14, 2024 SET MY HEART ON FIRE Izumi Suzuki This Tokyo rock novel, first published in Japan in 1983 and here translated by Helen O’Horan, follows a young woman through a world of drugs, music and highly […]
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Julie Gilbert Today, we delve into the enduring relevance of the themes explored by Pulitzer Prize -winning author Edna Ferber
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