Books
An excellent guide to the labyrinthine world of COP summits
Peter Betts (seated, pink shirt) at COP17 in Durban, South Africa in 2011. IISD/ENB Leila Mead Climate diplomatPeter Betts, Profile ...
How Corporate Feminism Went from “Love Me” to “Buy Me”
In retrospect, the book seems an artifact of a fleetingly optimistic moment and time when feminism became mainstream—think of Beyoncé's ...
Briefly Noted Book Reviews | The New Yorker
Ten-year caseErin Somers (Simon & Schuster). At the beginning of this intoxicating romance, a married man and a married woman ...
You need to read the epic Argentinian horror novel Our Share of Night
I read many horror books in the last two years. But my absolute favorite is Mariana Henriques.” Our share of ...
All That We See or Seem review: AI fans will love Ken Liu’s cyberpunk thriller
All We See or Seem takes place in a near future filled with personal artificial intelligences. Shutterstock/agsandrew Everything we see ...
Cat Tales review: A purrfect guide to cats and our complex relationship with them
Could these cool creatures achieve maximum power by taming themselves? Eman Kazemi/Alami Cat Tales: HistoryJerry D. Moore, Thames & Hudson ...
Peter Matthiessen Travelled the World, Trying to Escape Himself
On November 20, 1959, at a dock in Brooklyn, writer Peter Matthiessen boarded the cargo ship Venimos bound for Iquitos, ...
The New Yorker’s Susan Orlean On Her New Memoir ‘Joyride’
Once you interview as many people as Susan Orlean has, you begin to crave what she calls “counterprogramming.” Each log ...
Reese Witherspoon on how her new book “Gone Before Goodbye” redefines the female action hero
Reese Witherspoon is adding novelist to his resume with the thriller Gone Before Farewell, co-written with bestselling author Harlan Coben, ...
Briefly Noted Book Reviews | The New Yorker
Gods of New YorkJonathan Mahler (Random House). This chronicle of New York spans four “convulsive and momentous” years of its ...
