Two new books challenge the assumption that it’s impossible to reach that kid with the wispy mustache. In fact, reaching him is more important than ever.
In “The Resisters,” Gish Jen’s novel of dystopian America, the have-nots are unemployed and forced to eat food that will kill them. But it’s not all doom and gloom.
“Overground Railroad,” by Candacy Taylor, and “Driving While Black,” by Gretchen Sorin, chronicle the dangers for black Americans on the road during Jim Crow, and the travel guides that assisted them.
After he suffered a health crisis, Jeff Sharlet began talking to and photographing the people he met. “This Brilliant Darkness” is the poignant record of those encounters.
Adrienne Miller’s memoir chronicles her tenure as fiction editor of Esquire in the 1990s and her rocky relationship with David Foster Wallace, the era’s iconic novelist.