Table Of Content

Cover Page: 1 Title Page Page: 3 Copyright Page: 4 Contents Page: 6 The Birth of the Book Review Page: 11 A Review of the Review Page: 16 Chapter One: 1896-1921 Page: 24 Front Page | The First Issue | October 10, 1896 Page: 27 Editor’s Note | Things to Avoid in Book Plates | June 19, 1897 Page: 29 Letters | “Can Any of Your Readers Furnish Me With a List of Books?” | April/May 1898 Page: 30 Ouch! | George Bernard Shaw, Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant | June 18, 1898 Page: 33 Review | Henry James, The Two Magics | October 15, 1898 Page: 36 Letter | “Your Worship of Kipling” | May 20, 1899 Page: 39 Editor’s Note | How a Christmas Classic Came to Be | December 23, 1899 Page: 40 Review | Charles W. Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition | December 7, 1901 Page: 42 Op-Ed | Why Miss Alcott Still Lives | January 18, 1902 Page: 45 Op-Ed | A Form of Busybodyism | July 12, 1902 Page: 46 Interview | Arthur Conan Doyle at Home | July 19, 1902 Page: 49 Review | W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk | April 25, 1903 Page: 53 Review | Ida Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company | December 31, 1904 Page: 54 Scandal | The Brouhaha Over Edith Wharton’s “The House of Mirth” | 1905 Page: 59 Front Page | The Book Review Turns Ten | October 13, 1906 Page: 62 Ouch! | L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables | July 18, 1908 Page: 65 Essay | Literature in the Trenches, by Lt. Coningsby Dawson | October 21, 1917 Page: 67 Front Page | Three Hundred Leading Spring Books | April 14, 1918 Page: 72 Chapter Two: 1921-1946 Page: 76 Review | Agatha Christie, Murder on the Links | March 25, 1923 Page: 79 Feature | Sarah Bernhardt’s Library | July 15, 1923 Page: 83 Interview | Willa Cather: “Don’t Confuse Reading with Culture or Art” | December 21, 1924 Page: 85 Review | F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby | April 19, 1925 Page: 87 Review | Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway | May 10, 1925 Page: 91 Advertisement | The Art of Woo | August 14, 1927 Page: 92 Review | Emma Goldman, Living My Life | October 25, 1931 Page: 93 Review | Countee Cullen, One Way to Heaven | February 28, 1932 Page: 97 Review | William Faulkner, Light in August | October 9, 1932 Page: 98 Review | Inez Haynes Irwin, Angels and Amazons, and Sophonisba P. Breckinridge, Women in the Twentieth Century | January 9, 1933 Page: 101 Review | Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind | July 5, 1936 Page: 102 Review | Idaho: A Guide in Word and Picture | February 7, 1937 Page: 105 Review | John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath | April 16, 1939 Page: 106 Review | Richard Wright, Native Son | March 3, 1940 Page: 108 Review | Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter | June 16, 1940 Page: 110 Review | Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls | October 20, 1940 Page: 113 Feature | The First Best-Seller List | August 9, 1942 Page: 116 Review | Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | August 22, 1943 Page: 119 Review | Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf | October 17, 1943 Page: 121 Review | Ann Petry, The Street | February 10, 1946 Page: 125 Review | Christopher Isherwood, The Berlin Stories | February 17, 1946 Page: 126 Essay | The Book Review Turns 50 | October 6, 1946 Page: 131 Chapter Three: 1946-1971 Page: 138 Review | John Hersey, Hiroshima | November 10, 1946 Page: 141 Review | Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky | December 4, 1949 Page: 143 Review | E. H. Gombrich, The Story of Art | June 11, 1950 Page: 145 Essay | A Moveable Feast, by Alice B. Toklas | August 6, 1950 Page: 146 Review | J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye | July 15, 1951 Page: 149 Review | William F. Buckley Jr., God and Man at Yale | November 4, 1951 Page: 152 Review | Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man | April 13, 1952 Page: 154 Review | Flannery O’Connor, Wise Blood | May 18, 1952 Page: 158 Review | Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl | June 15, 1952 Page: 160 Review | E. B. White, Charlotte’s Web | October 19, 1952 Page: 165 Review | Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Rashomon and Other Stories | November 30, 1952 Page: 168 Review | Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex | February 22, 1953 Page: 169 Ouch! | Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 | November 8, 1953 Page: 170 Review | J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring | October 31, 1954 Page: 173 Review | Eugene O’Neill, Long Day’s Journey into Night | February 19, 1956 Page: 174 Reviews | James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son, and Langston Hughes, The Selected Poems of Langston Hughes | February 26, 1956 and March 29, 1959 Page: 175 Review | Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House | October 18, 1959 Page: 178 Review | Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird | July 10, 1960 Page: 181 Ouch! | Joseph Heller, Catch-22 | October 22, 1961 Page: 182 Review | Rachel Carson, Silent Spring | September 23, 1962 Page: 185 Review | Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem | May 19, 1963 Page: 188 Review | The World in Vogue | November 3, 1963 Page: 192 Review | Tom Wolfe, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby | June 27, 1965 Page: 194 Interview | Truman Capote: “Murder Was a Theme Not Likely to Darken and Yellow with Time” | January 16, 1966 Page: 199 Review | Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks | April 30, 1967 Page: 203 Reassessment | Jean Toomer, Cane | January 19, 1969 Page: 205 Interview | Philip Roth: “He Is Obscene Because He Wants to Be Saved” | February 23, 1969 Page: 206 Review | Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull, The Peter Principle | April 13, 1969 Page: 209 Review | Mario Puzo, The Godfather | April 27, 1969 Page: 213 Review | Jacqueline Susann, The Love Machine | May 11, 1969 Page: 215 Interview | Michael Crichton: “Any Idiot Should Be Able to Write a Potboiler” | June 8, 1969 Page: 219 Review | James Dickey, Deliverance | March 22, 1970 Page: 223 Review | Robert Hayden, Words in the Mourning Time | January 24, 1971 Page: 224 Review | Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, and Angie Debo, A History of the Indians of the United States | March 7, 1971 Page: 227 Chapter Four: 1971-1996 Page: 232 Interview | Henry Bech Interviews John Updike | November 14, 1971 Page: 235 Ouch! | Nikki Giovanni, Gemini | February 13, 1972 Page: 238 Review | Stephen King, Carrie | May 26, 1974 Page: 240 Review | Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, All the President’s Men | June 9, 1974 Page: 243 Review | Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry, Helter Skelter | November 17, 1974 Page: 246 Review | Shere Hite, The Hite Report | October 3, 1976 Page: 251 Review | John Cheever, Falconer | March 6, 1977 Page: 253 Review | Michael Herr, Dispatches | November 20, 1977 Page: 259 Essay | From the Poets in the Kitchen, by Paule Marshall | January 9, 1983 Page: 261 Reassessment | Zora Neale Hurston | April 21, 1985 Page: 265 Review | Art Spiegelman, “Maus” | May 26, 1985 Page: 266 Review | Toni Morrison, Beloved | September 13, 1987 Page: 271 Interview | Randy Shilts: “It Was Happening to People I Cared About” | November 8, 1987 Page: 276 Review | Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera | April 10, 1988 Page: 277 Letter | “Damn It to Hell, Mr. Auden” | December 17, 1989 Page: 283 Review | Peggy Noonan, What I Saw at the Revolution | February 4, 1990 Page: 285 Review | Sandra Cisneros, Woman Hollering Creek | May 26, 1991 Page: 287 Review | Jackie Collins, Hollywood Kids | October 9, 1994 Page: 289 Review | Anonymous, Primary Colors | January 28, 1996 Page: 291 Chapter Five: 1996-2021 Page: 296 Essay | Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies | July 11, 1999 Page: 299 Essay | A Real-Life Hogwarts, by Pico Iyer | October 10, 1999 Page: 301 Interview | Zadie Smith: “I Wanted to Prove That I Was a Writer” | April 30, 2000 Page: 303 Review | Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones | July 14, 2002 Page: 305 Reassessment | Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote | November 2, 2003 Page: 311 Review | Dale Peck, Hatchet Jobs | July 18, 2004 Page: 314 Review | Alison Bechdel, Fun Home | June 18, 2006 Page: 316 Letter | “To Live a Proud and Decent Life” | July 30, 2006 Page: 319 Review | André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name | February 25, 2007 Page: 321 Essay | Jazz Messenger, by Haruki Murakami | July 8, 2007 Page: 323 Review | Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | September 30, 2007 Page: 325 Review | Jennifer Egan, A Visit From the Goon Squad | July 11, 2010 Page: 328 Letter | “This Story Is a Complete Invention” | December 19, 2010 Page: 330 Review | Robert A. Caro, The Passage of Power | May 6, 2012 Page: 332 Review | Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You | August 17, 2014 Page: 337 Review | Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming | August 22, 2014 Page: 339 Essay | Patter and Patois | August 9, 2015 Page: 341 Review | Lucia Berlin, A Manual for Cleaning Women | August 16, 2015 Page: 344 Review | Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad | August 14, 2016 Page: 347 Review | Tommy Orange, There There | June 24, 2018 Page: 349 Feature | Books That Terrify | July 22, 2018 Page: 352 Poem | Jericho Brown, “Say Thank You Say I’m Sorry” | June 21, 2020 Page: 356 Other Famous Reviewers and Essayists Page: 363 Credits Page: 366 Dedication Page: 5 Acknowledgments Page: 368 About the Editors Page: 368

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A “delightful” (Vanity Fair) collection from the longest-running, most influential book review in America, featuring its best, funniest, strangest, and most memorable coverage over the past 125 years. Since its first issue on October 10, 1896, The New York Times Book Review has brought the world of ideas to the reading public. It is the publication where authors have been made, and where readers first encountered the classics that have enriched their lives.   Now the editors have curated the Book Review’s dynamic 125-year history, which is essentially the story of modern American letters. Brimming with remarkable reportage and photography, this beautiful book collects interesting reviews, never-before-heard anecdotes about famous writers, and spicy letter exchanges. Here are the first takes on novels we now consider masterpieces, including a long-forgotten pan of Anne of Green Gables and a rave of Mrs. Dalloway, along with reviews and essays by Langston Hughes, Eudora Welty, James Baldwin, Nora Ephron, and more.   With scores of stunning vintage photographs, many of them sourced from the Times’s own archive, readers will discover how literary tastes have shifted through the years—and how the Book Review’s coverage has shaped so much of what we read today.
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