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Prisoners at prayer at Gadsden County Jail, Quincy, Fla. Fred R. Conrad for The New York Times |
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Dear Reader… |
Our cover this week features two important books about law enforcement and race: “Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America,” by James Forman Jr., and “A Colony in a Nation,” by Chris Hayes. Both look at the disparate ways Americans conceive of punishment, accountability and victimhood, with huge repercussions for Americans of all races. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, until recently the head of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and now a professor of history, race and public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, reviews. Muhammad is also the author of “The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America.” |
On a very different note, Tom Carson, one of the best critics on movies and television, gives a rave review to Jason Zinoman’s new biography of David Letterman. Zinoman, the comedy columnist for The Times, was also my guest on this week’s podcast (along with Chris Hayes). Zinoman argues that the TV host was a major force in American pop culture in a late-night landscape very different from our current one, in which more people encounter short, digestible clips online (think James Corden's Carpool Karaoke) from late-night programs than watch the hourlong episodes on TV. Another TV star in this week’s issue is the impressive Lesley Stahl, longtime correspondent on CBS's “60 Minutes.” She tells us what she’s reading in By the Book. |
Want to fall in love with your next book? This week marks the debut of Match Book! Read the first column here, and send in your questions. Our literary advice columnist awaits your letters: matchbook@nytimes.com |
Please stay in touch and let us know what you think – whether it’s about this newsletter, our reviews, our podcast or what you’re reading. We read and ponder all of it. I even write back, albeit belatedly. You can email me at books@nytimes.com. |
Pamela Paul |
Editor of The New York Times Book Review |
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THE BOOK REVIEW PODCAST
On this week’s podcast, Chris Hayes talks about “A Colony in a Nation”; Jason Zinoman discusses “Letterman: The Last Giant of Late Night”; Jennifer Schuessler has news from the literary world; and Parul Sehgal and John Williams on what people are reading. Pamela Paul is the host. Listen here. |
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Nonfiction
A New Rule Book for the Great Game
By SERGE SCHMEMANN
In “The Chessboard and the Web,” Anne-Marie Slaughter calls on foreign-policy makers to radically update their vision of global order. |
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By the Book
Lesley Stahl: By the Book The journalist and author of “Becoming Grandma” says Ann Patchett’s “Bel Canto” reminded her of Gabriel García Márquez, a high compliment: “My all-time favorite book . . . is ‘Love in the Time of Cholera.'” |
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Open Book
Murder, He Wrote
By JOHN WILLIAMS
The recently reissued “Killings” collects pieces of Calvin Trillin’s true-crime writing for The New Yorker. |
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Letters to the Editor Readers respond to Fran Lebowitz, Angus Deaton’s review “The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution” and more. |
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Paperback Row
By JOUMANA KHATIB
Six new paperbacks to check out this week. |
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2017 Pulitzer Prize Winners
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
The prizes included reporting on the presidential election; a fatal fire in Oakland, Calif.; and the attempts by the Russian government to assert its power. |
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