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The American weekend garden

Recent Arrivals - Book - Sat, 09/05/2020 - 2:31am

Author: Thorpe, Patricia, author Cardillo, James, illustrator. Gray, Robert, photographer. Duncan, Richard S., photographer.
Published: 1988
Call Number: 635.0973
Format: Books
Summary: Stresses observing the surrounding landscape and learning from it. For people who want to garden, but who really don't have much time to spend. Shows shortcuts.

Revisiting Carol Shields and the Everywoman

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/04/2020 - 5:07pm

In 1994, Jay Parini wrote for the Book Review about Carol Shields’s novel “The Stone Diaries,” the fictional autobiography of Daisy Goodwill Flett as she navigates marriage and motherhood.

Life, and Other Interruptions: A Storyteller Explains ‘Why I Don’t Write’

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/04/2020 - 4:17pm

Susan Minot’s new book is her second collection in 30 years. But that doesn’t mean she hasn’t been busy.

What’s In a Title?

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/04/2020 - 3:58pm

It depends on where the author is in the creative process.

Jeffrey Toobin on Writing About Trump

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/04/2020 - 3:25pm

Toobin talks about “True Crimes and Misdemeanors,” and Dayna Tortorici discusses Elena Ferrante’s “The Lying Life of Adults.”

The Men Who Reinvented Philosophy for Turbulent Times

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/04/2020 - 3:01pm

In “Time of the Magicians,” Wolfram Eilenberger tells the story of four philosophers — Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer and Heidegger — who altered the way we see reality.

The Impossible Case of a Japanese Locked-Room Mystery

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/04/2020 - 2:39pm

Marilyn Stasio recommends two recently reissued novels by Seishi Yokomizo, as well as the latest books from Denise Mina and T. Jefferson Parker.

New in Paperback: ‘The Travelers’ and ‘On Fire’

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/04/2020 - 5:00am

Six new paperbacks to check out this week.

Want a Better Way to Think About Gender? Use Math

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/04/2020 - 5:00am

In “X+Y,” the mathematician Eugenia Cheng proposes using category theory to end the gender wars.

The Dangerous North Korea

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/04/2020 - 5:00am

Three new books examine one of the world’s most mysterious countries.

Letters to the Editor

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/04/2020 - 5:00am

Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.

In Capitalism’s Clutch, and Exploring Its Contradictions

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 09/03/2020 - 4:53pm

With her new book, “Having and Being Had,” the essayist Eula Biss meditates on the lived experience of class and money in American culture.

10 New Books We Recommend This Week

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 09/03/2020 - 4:47pm

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

John Cleese Intends to Have His Unread Books Buried With Him

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 09/03/2020 - 1:12pm

“My grave will be called ‘Mount Cleese.’”

A Canadian Poet Channels a 7th-Century Scottish Hermit

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 09/03/2020 - 12:34pm

In “The Caiplie Caves,” Karen Solie invents a voice for St. Ethernan, who lived over a thousand years ago and retreated to solitude on the coast of Fife.

Embracing Sexual Identity, These Graphic Novels Burst With Life

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 09/03/2020 - 12:14pm

In her Graphic Content column, Hillary Chute looks at a reissue of Howard Cruse’s classic “Stuck Rubber Baby” and a new set of tarot cards for the future.

In 'Having And Being Had,' Eula Biss Maps Capitalist Game Rules Without Breaking Them

NPR Book Reviews - Thu, 09/03/2020 - 5:00am

By rooting each meditation in lived experience, the author captures the way the capitalist value system has weaseled itself into the everyday — even implicating herself in its ills and rewards.

(Image credit: Riverhead Books )

Happy 100th Best-Seller Week to ‘Between the World and Me’

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 09/03/2020 - 5:00am

Ta-Nehisi Coates wasn’t thinking about how many books he was going to sell. He was focused on saying what he needed to say.

In Memoir, Sarah Huckabee Sanders Shows She's All In With Trump

NPR Book Reviews - Thu, 09/03/2020 - 1:59am

Trump's former press secretary is not about settling scores. Her book is an unabashed homage to the president and a feathering of her nest for a probable run for governor of Arkansas.

(Image credit: Bloomberg via Getty Images)

'Daddy' Dwells In The Moments After Something Awful Happens

NPR Book Reviews - Wed, 09/02/2020 - 10:00am

Emma Cline's new story collection never digs into the nitty-gritty details of how her characters have gone wrong. Instead, she focuses on what happens after the affair or the addiction or the firing.

(Image credit: Random House)

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