Ben Lerner’s Transcription, Patrick Radden Keefe’s London Falling, and Caro Claire Burke’s Yesteryear all feature among the best reviewed books of the week.
1. Transcription by Ben Lerner
(FSG)
18 Rave • 7 Positive • 1 Mixed
“A chamber piece, more compressed and crystallized than any of its predecessors.”
–Giles Harvey (The New Yorker)
2. Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
(Knopf)
6 Rave • 1 Positive • 1 Mixed
“An ingenious, exquisite, be-careful-what-you-wish-for.”
–Michelle Ruiz (The New York Times Book Review)
3. The Oyster Diaries by Nancy Lemann
(NYRB)
3 Rave • 4 Positive • 1 Mixed
“Like a warm summer night or a third cocktail, Lemann lulls and envelops you.”
–Brandy Jensen (The New Yorker)
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1. London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth by Patrick Radden Keefe
(Doubleday)
14 Rave • 1 Positive • 1 Mixed
“Like all of Keefe’s work, the book makes for propulsive reading.”
–Mia Levitin (The Irish Times)
2. Attention: Writing on Life, Art, and the World by Anne Enright
(W. W. Norton)
8 Rave
“Enright’s exhilarating mixture of analysis and autobiography compels continuous assent.”
–Patricia Craig (Times Literary Supplement)
3. Here Where We Live is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund by Molly Crabapple
(One World)
6 Rave
“An authoritative history … Thrillingly energetic.”
–Max Strasser (The New York Times Book Review)
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