Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers. Tradotto in inglese da Shaun Whiteside (Viking). The story — the explanation, really — of how two people come to find solitude more comforting than companionship is the subtle work of Giordano’s haunting novel, a finely tuned machine powered by the perverse mechanics of need. Liesl Schillinger at the nytbr.
NONFICTION
John Curran, Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making (Harper). Most astonishing, Curran discovers that for all her assured skewering of human character in a finished novel, sometimes when Christie started her books, even she didn't know who the murderer was. Christine Kenneally at
Slate. John Curran, Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making (Harper). Most astonishing, Curran discovers that for all her assured skewering of human character in a finished novel, sometimes when Christie started her books, even she didn't know who the murderer was. Christine Kenneally at
Gerald M. Boyd, My Times in Black and White: Race and Power at the New York Times, with an afterword by Robin D. Stone (Lawrence Hill). Lovers of newspaper gossip will find it delightfully indiscreet about self-serving treacheries hatched in the newsroom by people simultaneously engaged in high-minded pursuit of all the news that’s fit to print. Times folk, especially of the management class, will not be delighted by his account of their awkward struggle with the race problem or Boyd’s suggestion that bigotry was one of the causes of his downfall. Russell Baker at nybooks.
Sarah Silverman, The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee (Harper). “She loved dogs, New York, television, children, friendship, sex, laughing, heartbreaking songs, marijuana, farts, and cuddling.” nymag.
Sarah Silverman with her father circa 1975.
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