The world's top authors and critics join host Gilbert Cruz and editors at The New York Times Book Review to talk about the week's top books, what we're reading ...
Don't let anyone tell you differently — end of year list time is a wonderful time, indeed. And, as we do every December, we are ready to discuss the 10 best books of the year. Host Gilbert Cruz gathers the editors of the New York Times Book Review to discuss the most exciting fiction and nonfiction of the year.The New York Times Book Review's Top 10 Books of 2024"James," by Percival Everett"You Dreamed of Empires," by Álvaro Enrigue; translated by Natasha Wimmer"Good Material," by Dolly Alderton"All Fours," by Miranda July"Martyr!," by Kaveh Akbar"The Wide Wide Sea," by Hampton Sides"Everyone Who is Gone is Here," by Jonathan Blitzer"Reagan," by Max Boot"I Heard Her Call My Name," by Lucy Sante"Cold Creamatorium," by József Debreczeni; translated by Paul Olchváry
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Book Club: 'James,' by Percival Everett (Rerun)
The broad outlines of "James" will be immediately familiar to anyone with even a basic knowledge of American literature: A boy named Huckleberry Finn and an enslaved man named Jim are fleeing down the Mississippi River together, each in search of his own kind of freedom.But where Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” treated Jim as a secondary character, a figure of pity and a target of fun, Percival Everett makes him the star of the show: a dignified, complicated, fully formed man capable of love and wit and rage in equal measure.In this episode from May, the Book Review’s MJ Franklin discusses the book, which was recently awarded the National Book Award, with his colleagues Joumana Khatib and Gregory Cowles.
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