FICTION
Amit Chaudhuri, The Immortals (Knopf). A comedy of manners about a musician coming of age in status-conscious 1980s Bombay. nytbr.

NONFICTION
Peter Hart, The Somme: The Darkest Hour On The Western Front (Pegasus Books). Is leading one’s own troops to slaughter ever justified? Christopher Hitchens, Atlantic.

Come si arriva a una diagnosi? F. González-Crussi, Carrying the Heart: Exploring the Worlds Within Us (Kaplan), e Jonathan A. Edlow, M.D., The Deadly Dinner Party and Other Medical Detective Stories (Yale University Press). nybooks.

In 1967, a German illustrator going by the single name Robinson published a collection of pen-and-ink drawings called New York. Ora questo bellissimo libro viene ripubblicato da Universe Publishing, con il titolo di New York: Line by Line, From Broadway to the Battery. nymag.

INTERVISTE
Tina Brown parla con Philip Roth su The Humbling. dailybeast.

"The amount of sexually active, evil women in crime fiction exhausts you." Sarah Paretsky al sfc.

76 minuti con Jonathan Safran Foer (e il suo cane George), nymag.

PAROLE
L'origine di Ms. In the Nov. 10, 1901, edition of The Sunday Republican of Springfield, Mass., an unnamed writer put forth a modest proposal. “There is a void in the English language which, with some diffidence, we undertake to fill. Every one has been put in an embarrassing position by ignorance of the status of some woman. To call a maiden Mrs. is only a shade worse than to insult a matron with the inferior title Miss. Yet it is not always easy to know the facts.” nytmag.

WHAT I SEE IN THE MIRROR
Irving Welsh parla di sé. G/O.