David Varno
Fiction Reviews Editor at Publishers Weekly
Fiction Reviews Editor at @PublishersWkly, @bookcritics board
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Dec 9, 2024 |
publishersweekly.com | David Varno
Top 10The AntidoteKaren Russell. Knopf, Mar. 11 ($30, ISBN 978-0-593-80225-0)A witch and a photographer feature among the cast of Russell’s first novel since Swamplandia!, which traces a dust storm’s impact on a Nebraska town during the Great Depression. AuditionKatie Kitamura. Riverhead, Apr. 8 ($28, ISBN 978-0-593-85232-3)Kitamura explores the nature of performance in this story of a successful actor and her mysterious connection to a much younger man. The Book of RecordsMadeleine Thien.
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Jun 14, 2024 |
publishersweekly.com | David Varno
Top 10Devin Allen: BaltimoreEdited by Peter W. Kunhardt Jr. and Michal Raz-Russo. Steidl, Sept. 3 ($75, ISBN 978-3-96999-361-3)Devin Allen, who is best known for photographing the 2015 protests in Baltimore following the death of Freddie Gray, collects his images of the city’s Black communities. Dürer’s Knots: Early European Print and the Islamic EastSusan Dackerman. Princeton Univ., Sept.
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Jun 14, 2024 |
publishersweekly.com | David Varno
Top 10The City and Its Uncertain WallsHaruki Murakami, trans. by Philip Gabriel. Knopf, Nov. 19 ($35, ISBN 978-0-593-80197-0)Murakami revisits the setting of 1985’s Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, where shadows become disconnected from a person’s body and a Dream Reader reviews people’s dreams. Creation LakeRachel Kushner. Scribner, Sept. 3 ($29.99, ISBN 978-1-9821-1652-1)What happens when a spy is seduced by her quarry?
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Mar 22, 2024 |
publishersweekly.com | David Varno
It takes a few minutes for Miranda July to get situated. Initially she looks composed over Zoom, dressed in a black leather jacket and seated at a desk in her airy studio in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. Behind her stands a bookcase of neatly cataloged art books with thick spines.
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Mar 8, 2024 |
publishersweekly.com | David Varno
In When The Clock Broke, political essayist Ganz studies the failed right-wing populism on the fringe of the 1992 presidential election. This book has its origins in a 2018 Baffler essay. How did it develop into something bigger? It was like pulling on a thread. Rick Perlstein wrote a piece for the New York Times Magazine in 2017 where he said the right wing’s marginal and kind of crazy characters were much more important to its history than he had thought. So I took this as a research project.
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Would only see A Complete Unknown if I knew this guy would be there screaming https://t.co/vbXJiIFBRJ
Wonder if someone will say this in 50 years about Adam Driver and his T-square
In honor and memory of Kris Kristofferson, whose substantial art went unrecognized because he didn't fuss. He put one of the greatest movies of modern Hollywood on his shoulders and carried it, for nearly four hours, with enormous yet graceful power, and got only insults for it.
They should pick Walz so Kamala can make this joke: “They wanna build a wall? Let me be clear. I’ve got Walz.”
