Episode · The Book Review · 2015-09-18
Books mentioned on Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘The Court and the World’
Gilbert Cruz discussed The Court and the World by Stephen G. Breyer, the star side of bird hill by Naomi Jackson, and Animals by Emma Jane Unsworth. John Fabian Witt discussed Active Liberty by Stephen G. Breyer. Alexandra Alter recommended The Soul of an Octopus by SY Montgomery and All Joy and No Fun by Jennifer Senior. Sam Tanenhaus discussed To the Finland station by Edmund Wilson, James Joyce by Richard Ellmann, and Truman by David McCullough. Greg Cowles discussed Two years eight months and twenty-eight nights by Salman Rushdie, Black Earth by Timothy Snyder, and Reckless by Chrissie Hynde.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Court and the World
The Court and the World by Stephen G.
Discussed“John wit joins us to talk about Justice Steven Brier's new book the court and the world American law and the new Global realities”
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Active Liberty
Discussed“that was an interesting thing to see and to see the interaction between the battles that he's been in in his previous books over active Liberty is what the title of his most recent before this one battles between that and originalism”
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The Soul of an Octopus
The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery is a fascinating exploration into the inner lives, intelligence, and consciousness of one of the natural world's most mysterious creatures.
Recommended“and another book that sounds fascinating about the inner lives of octopuses by S Montgomery”
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All Joy and No Fun
All Joy and No Fun by Jennifer Senior is an insightful, hilarious, and deeply researched exploration of modern parenting that examines how children profoundly reshape the emotional, social, and economic lives of their parents.
Recommended“she is the author of a book all joy and no fun which is a hilarious and in-depth look at modern parenting as a parent I thoroughly enjoyed”
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the star side of bird hill
Discussed“let's start um to talk specifically about the star side of bird hill by Naomi Jackson”
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Animals
Discussed“let's talk about a very different book as you said not quite a Coming of Age novel um in the traditional sense but Emma Jane unsworth Book animal”
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To the Finland station
To the Finland Station by Edmund Wilson is a classic work of intellectual history that traces the development of socialist thought and the lead-up to the Russian Revolution through the lives of various European thinkers and revolutionaries.
Discussed“so I'm now uh rereading uh eban Wilson's to the Finland station because I'm working myself on a book a biography of William F Buckley that has a lot of ideas in it”
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James Joyce
Discussed“I'm also rereading uh Richard elman's biography of James Joyce”
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Truman
Truman by David McCullough is a comprehensive and celebrated biographical account of the thirty-third president of the United States, Harry S.
Discussed“when I was uh working on Whitaker Chambers which was my uh biography I wrote many years ago last now I would alternate reading elman's wild with David McCulla Truman”
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Two years eight months and twenty-eight nights
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie is an imaginative fantasy novel that offers a modern literary riff on the classic collection One Thousand and One Nights.
Discussed“then at number nine Solon rushy uh is on the hard cover fiction list with 2 years 8 months and 28 nights which is uh for the mathematically inclined it it amounts to 1,1 Knights”
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Black Earth
Black Earth by Timothy Snyder is a comprehensive historical analysis of the Holocaust that examines the environmental and ideological conditions that allowed the Nazi regime to perpetrate mass atrocities across Europe.
Discussed“um down at number 13 Timothy Snider's Black Earth his look at the Holocaust uh is new number 13”
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Reckless
Discussed“at number seven I'm new on the list this week Chrissy hind the longtime lead singer and frontwoman of the pretenders has a memoir called Reckless”
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Other mentions in this episode (29) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“he is a professor of Law and history at Yale and the author most recently of Lincoln's code the laws of war in American history”
“John viian wit is a professor of Law and history at Yale he is also the author of Lincoln's code the laws of war in American history”
“an Tyler's a spool of blue thread was nominated”
“Hana Yan gara's a little life was nominated um and then there's the British writer Tom McCarthy the Jamaican author Marlon James and the Nigerian author Choi Obama's debut novel The Fisherman and the British author sanjie sahota's the year of the runaway”
“Hana Yan gara's a little life was nominated um and then there's the British writer Tom McCarthy the Jamaican author Marlon James and the Nigerian author Choi Obama's debut novel The Fisherman and the British author sanjie sahota's the year of the runaway”
“Hana Yan gahara was also nominated for the fiction long list uh for her novel a little life”
“uh for her novel a little life and Bill C's debut novel did you ever have a family made it onto the booker long list”
“and this year there is a book about Rain by Cynthia Barnett”
“she also reviewed Christopher hitchin' Memoir hitch 22 and so we are looking forward to seeing her around here a lot more”
“she most recently Rie reviewed Steve silberman's book neurotribes for us”
“she is the author of The Sleepwalker guide to dance and this week she reviews three Coming of Age novels for us on the short list”
“um the star side of birt hill by Naomi Jackson”
“Animals by Emma Jane unsworth”
“um you've your last novel was The Sleepwalkers guide to dancing but you're working on a graphic Memoir”
“um I'm working on a graphic Memoir it's called good talk and it came out of a series of conversations”
“that was mea Jacob she is the author of The Sleepwalker guide to dancing”
“have you read his Oscar wild”
“well on the fiction side there are four new titles uh starting with a familiar name down at number 15 ja a Jance is back on the list with dance of the bones”
“then at number 12 another familiar name Robert B Parker who died a long time ago but has remained prolific uh reed frell Coleman is continuing Robert B Parker's series with Robert B Parker's the devil wins”
“then finally uh new at number one this this week Lee Child uh is back with another Jack Reacher novel this one's called make me and it debuts right at the top of the list”
“girl on the train still on there”
“all the light we cannot see still on there”
“um down at number 13 Kristen Hannah the night Andale has now spent 32 weeks on the list”
“no the only um book that's been on the non-fiction side for more than 30 weeks uh is Atul goand being mortal which is at number five”
“another book that we recently reviewed at number 12 Dale ruskov's the prize which looks at um school reform in Newark New Jersey”
“she hit the list uh at least the extended list a few years ago with a memoir that she wrote called Pastrick”
“this book uh is called accidental Saints new number eight”
“maybe Patty Smith got the ball rolling back with just kids which won the national book award in 2010”
“she's got another book coming out later this she does m train a second Memoir”