the loft generation: from de koonings to twombly: portraits and sketches 1942-2011, by edith schloss. Edited by Mary Venturini. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux.) The memoir of German-American writer and artist Edith Schloss was discovered in draft after her death in 2011, and has been polished into a glittering gem of a book. She remembers the who’s who of the art world’s personalities, including Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Leo Castelli, and Merce Cunningham. “All five senses are awakened” by the book, Jacobs wrote. “If nostalgia is an often clouded sixth sense, it is absent in a book that feels manifestly present, clear, and alive even as it depicts the past.”
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the right to sex: feminism in the 21st century, by amia srinivasan. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux.) In these rigorous essays, Amia Srinivasan wants nothing less, she writes, than to “remake the political critique of sex for the 21st century.” this is tense ground, and she treads it with determination and skill, writing about pornography and the internet, misogyny and violence, capitalism and incarceration. it also leaves room for ambivalence, idiosyncrasy, autonomy, and choice. “srinivasan has written a compassionate book. she has also written a challenging one,” said szalai. “she pulls our imagination out of the well-worn ruts of the existing order.”
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the empathy diaries: memoirs of sherry turkle. (Penguin Press.) In this warm and intimate memoir, clinical psychologist Sherry Turkle writes about her childhood in postwar Brooklyn; Radcliffe and Harvard in the late 1960s, when she was a student; and Paris in the early 1970s, where she studied (and became acquainted with) the work of psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. This is “a beautiful book,” Garner wrote. “it has gravity and grace; it is as inexorable as a fable; delves into the things that make a life.”
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people: a biography, by richard zenith. (liveright.) fernando pessoa, the poet, critic, translator, mystic and giant of portuguese modernism, published some books that went unnoticed during his lifetime. after his death in 1935, a trunk overflowing with his true life’s work was discovered, written not just by pessoa but by a multitude of his characters (he created dozens of them, including a doctor, a classicist, a bisexual poet, a monk, a teenage girl in love). Zenith’s book is “mammoth, ultimate and sublime,” Sehgal wrote. he has “written the only truly permissible kind of pessoa biography, an account of a life that strips away the limits and burdens of the notion of a self”.
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second place, by rachel cusk. (farrar, straus & giroux.) rachel cusk’s first novel since concluding her acclaimed trilogy is about m de ella, an observant middle-aged writer who lives with her second husband on a remote estate. she invites him, a famous young painter whose work she admires, to come and stay in her “second place,” a cabin that is a sort of artists’ retreat. she arrives with a beautiful young bride in tow, and the novel becomes a swirling greenhouse. “It’s like Cusk has been reading Joyce Carol Oates’ best novels,” Garner wrote. “she delves into the family’s gothic core and romantic entanglements.”
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playlist for the apocalypse: poems by rita dove. (norton.) rita dove’s new collection is about the weight of american history and also about mortality. it is the first time he has publicly acknowledged that he has had a form of multiple sclerosis for more than 20 years. some of these poems address health issues. Some are about Martin Luther King Jr., Robert F. Kennedy, Muhammad Ali and Barack Obama. Garner called the poems “among her best” and wrote, “Dove’s books derive their strength from how she so deftly churns the everyday (insomnia, TV movies, stilton cheese, pill rattles) into her world of ideas and insight. , in poems that are at once delicate, witty, and daring.”
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