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John Williams’s book recommendations in 2018

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Tyranny in Rome and Fake Drugs in Fiction

The Book Review · 2018-12-28

The western wind by Samantha Harvey · recommended · at 53:17

Isabel Wilkerson Talks About Michelle Obama’s Memoir

The Book Review · 2018-12-21

Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin · recommended · at 50:32
A Heart So White by Javier Marías · recommended · at 52:27

Poetry & Politics

The Book Review · 2018-12-14

He Held Radical Light by Christian Wiman · discussed · at 50:26
My bright abyss by Christian Wiman · discussed · at 50:43

Immaturity in American Politics

The Book Review · 2018-12-07

Evening in paradise by Lucia Berlin · discussed · at 19:12
Welcome home by Lucia Berlin · discussed · at 19:12
A manual for cleaning women by Lucia Berlin · discussed · at 19:42
Bringing Down the Colonel by Patricia Miller · discussed · at 39:01

Talking About the 10 Best Books of 2018

The Book Review · 2018-11-30

The friend by Sigrid Nunez · recommended · at 49:00
Fatal discord by Michael Massing · recommended · at 50:41

The Past, Present and Future of Jews in America

The Book Review · 2018-11-16

The missing of the Somme by Geoff Dyer · recommended · at 57:01

Big New Biographies of Two Big American Lives

The Book Review · 2018-11-09

Heavy by Kiese Laymon · recommended · at 43:55
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by 三島由紀夫 · recommended · at 48:11
Fatal discord by Michael Massing · discussed · at 49:31

Susan Orlean on a Great Library Fire

The Book Review · 2018-10-19

There There by Tommy Orange · discussed · at 45:14

Barry Jenkins and Meg Wolitzer on Two of This Season's Novels on Screen

The Book Review · 2018-10-16

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin · discussed · at 1:27
The Wife by Meg Wolitzer · discussed · at 19:41
Wildlife by Richard Ford · discussed · at 38:21
Beautiful Boy by David Sheff · discussed · at 39:13
Tweak by Nic Sheff · discussed · at 39:26
Atonement by Ian McEwan · discussed · at 44:39

Kate Atkinson on 'Transcription'

The Book Review · 2018-10-05

Jack Robinson by Jack Robinson · recommended · at 39:03
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe · discussed · at 39:25
Foe by J. M. Coetzee · discussed · at 40:08

Esi Edugyan on Her Booker-Shortlisted 'Washington Black'

The Book Review · 2018-09-21

Shyness and Dignity by Dag Solstad · recommended · at 48:05

A Memoir From the Hard-Working ‘Heartland’

The Book Review · 2018-09-14

Ulysses by James Joyce · discussed · at 42:00
Calypso by David Sedaris · recommended · at 43:42
The Time of the Doves by Mercè Rodoreda · recommended · at 54:39
Death in Spring by Mercè Rodoreda · recommended · at 59:26

The Uses and Misuses of Identity

The Book Review · 2018-08-31

Nada by Carmen Laforet · recommended · at 1:09:45

Rethinking the 'Tangled Tree' of Life

The Book Review · 2018-08-17

Beautiful Animals by Lawrence Osborne · recommended · at 47:33
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell · recommended · at 56:01

Beth Macy on 'Dopesick'

The Book Review · 2018-08-03

Ulysses by James Joyce · discussed · at 44:00
The cost of living by Deborah Levy · recommended · at 45:54
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card · discussed · at 47:46
No Longer Human by 太宰治 · discussed · at 49:40
The setting sun by 太宰治 · discussed · at 50:17

Drawing History

The Book Review · 2018-07-27

Masks by Fumiko Enchi · discussed · at 38:01
The Woman in the dunes by Abe Kōbō · discussed · at 38:46

From Transcribing for Obama to Writing Her Own Story

The Book Review · 2018-07-13

Kokoro by 夏目漱石 · recommended · at 55:01

An Inside View of Putin

The Book Review · 2018-07-06

Epitaph of a Small Winner by Machado de Assis · recommended · at 52:25

The Life of Atticus Finch

The Book Review · 2018-06-22

The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth · recommended · at 48:28
Zuckerman unbound by Philip Roth · recommended · at 48:32
The Anatomy Lesson by Philip Roth · recommended · at 48:32

David Sedaris on ‘Calypso’

The Book Review · 2018-05-25

The Stand by Stephen King · discussed · at 1:15:35
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner · discussed · at 1:16:23
Outline by Rachel Cusk · discussed · at 1:16:26

Julian Barnes on 'The Only Story'

The Book Review · 2018-04-27

The Bridegroom Was a Dog by Yōko Tawada · recommended · at 56:09

Parenting in the Age of Omnipresent Screens

The Book Review · 2018-04-13

The evenings by Gerard Reve · recommended · at 51:19

Tayari Jones on 'An American Marriage'

The Book Review · 2018-02-23

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James · discussed · at 50:03
Washington Square by Henry James · discussed · at 50:20
Portrait of a Novel by Michael Gorra · discussed · at 50:45

Laura Lippman on 'Sunburn'

The Book Review · 2018-02-09

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James · discussed · at 33:39
Black No More by George Schuyler · discussed · at 34:55
The Sellout by Paul Beatty · discussed · at 35:15

Twilight's Last Gleaming?

The Book Review · 2018-01-26

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James · discussed · at 51:03
The Golden Bowl by Henry James · critiqued · at 52:20

Off the Charts

The Book Review · 2018-01-19

Angel by Elizabeth Taylor · recommended · at 39:15

Some Assembly Required

The Book Review · 2018-01-12

Winter by Ali Smith · discussed · at 42:24

What to Read About North Korea

The Book Review · 2018-01-05

Complete poems and selected letters by John Keats · discussed · at 53:30

Other mentions in 2018 (23: passing, ad reads, own books)