Dwight Garner

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Dwight Garner

El nobel peruano era el novelista político más inteligente y consumado del mundo. Hubo un tiempo, durante el último cuarto del siglo XX, en que era posible argumentar que una sola persona era el mejor novelista y el mejor crítico literario de Estados Unidos. Me refiero a John Updike, cuyas largas y elegantes reseñas en The New Yorker marcaban las agendas de lectura.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Dwight Garner

The Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa was the world's savviest and most accomplished political novelist. Once upon a time, during the last quarter of the 20th century, it was possible to argue that one person was America's best novelist and best literary critic. I am talking about John Updike, whose long and elegant reviews in The New Yorker set reading agendas.

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Dwight Garner

2 hours agoWhy Did Democrats Let Biden Keep Running in 2024? Chris Whipple offers an insiders’ account of a disastrous political campaign. UNCHARTED: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History, by Chris Whipple Over St. Patrick’s Day weekend in 2024, President Joe Biden hosted the traditional gathering of Irish and Irish …3 hours agoStuck in an Endless Loop of Planning and Preparation?

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Dwight Garner

J.P. Donleavy clocks the absurdities of human conduct in his satirical advice guide, "The Unexpurgated Code."When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. Books of advice come in many forms: financial, spiritual, physical, philosophical. Novels too are books of advice, if read in a certain light.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Dwight Garner

The Bashiri mystery: A 2,300-year-old Egyptian mummy that no archaeologist dares to openA mysterious mummy called “Bashiri” has captivated the minds of Egyptologists for more than a century, but no scholar has ever unearthed it. A mummy, …