The Book | We the Animals
We the Animals is a book about brothers, three of them, who live in a run-down house in upstate New York with their tired mother and tough father. Told in the first person plural (that’s “we”, in case you drifted off in that English lesson), the boys leave a trail of merry destruction and havoc, safe in their oneness and sameness; until one boy starts to feel different, and everything falls apart. This debut, a sort-of memoir by Stanford fellow Justin Torres, is a searing and sparkling piece of writing that promises great things to come.
We the Animals by Justin Torres is out 8 March (Granta)
March 8th, 2012
The Book | South Pole
Like the idea of conquering the South Pole but have no plans on going there yourself? This book is for you. [Read more...]
February 29th, 2012
Is this the best sports book of 2012?
OK, we know it’s a little early to be tossing around statements like the one above. But let us assure you, The Art of Fielding, the debut of American writer Chad Harbach, is a special book. [Read more...]
January 3rd, 2012
Four reasons R Crumb won’t be drawing the X Factor winner’s album cover
Not that he’d want to, you understand. The legendary comic book artist’s tastes are more – how shall we say – rarefied. A book of his album covers for bluesmen and jazz outfits is out next week, featuring his trademark perspiring weirdoes and fat-bottomed girls (who usually get eliminated in the audition round). R. Crumb: The Complete Record Cover Collection is out 22 November (WW Norton) [Read more...]
November 17th, 2011
America in 150 weekends (and 744 pages)
Taschen make beautiful, strokeable books (seriously, try it) and this latest travel compendium is no exception. A collaboration with The New York Times it features the best of the paper’s “36 Hours” columns, which provide iteineries for weekends in some of America’s furtherest flung corners, as well as its sprawling cities. [Read more...]
November 14th, 2011
Book of the week – 11/22/63
If John F Kennedy hadn’t been shot dead on 22 November, 1963, would he have continued to be the golden boy of American politics leading his people to a brighter, fairer, happier future? Or more significantly, what wouldn’t have happened? The killing of Martin Luther King Jr? Watergate? The fall of the Soviet Union? 9/11? [Read more...]
November 9th, 2011
Book of the week – People Who Eat Darkness: The Fate of Lucie Blackman
This is a big, ambitious true crime book in the tradition of Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song, Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood and Gordon Burn’s classic British studies of the Yorkshire Ripper and Fred/Rosemary West murders. It’s an absorbing story and an impressive feat of investigative journalism. [Read more...]
April 19th, 2011
Book of the week – The Two Kinds of Decay by Sarah Manguso
‘This is the usual sort of book about illness. Someone gets sick, someone gets well.’ This terse description of her book is the only false note author Sarah Manguso strikes in what is an extraordinarily powerful memoir. [Read more...]
April 1st, 2011
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