The Real Work

What does it mean to master a skill – drawing, dancing or driving – and how do you actually do it? That is the question New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik asks in The Real Work, and it becomes the springboard for a discussion of art, family, empathy, mortality. Via memoir, analysis and criticism he assembles a celebration of the flaws that make us human. Matthew Cantor, The Guardian

The Real Work è pubblicato da Quercus. Un altro libro degno di nota, questa settimana, è Old Babes in the Wood di Margaret Atwood (Penguin, recensito da Sam Leith, sempre sul Guardian.