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New York Times - International Arts Edit Unfollow How America Remembers— and Distorts — Its Slavery Past by Julian Lucas Jun 1, 2021 In “How the Word Is Passed,” the poet and journalist Clint Smith visits nine places to assess how we are reckoning with our racial history and its legacy.Monticello, photographed in 2018. In “How the Word Is Passed,” Clint Smith visits nine places that memorialize or distort their link to the legacy of slavery, from Monticello, in Charlottesville, Va., to the African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan. He skillfully braids interviews with scholarship and personal observation, asking, “How different might our country look if all of us fully understood what had happened here?” Continue Reading Save Share Pulling Back the Curtain on the Lincolns' Marriage by Amy S. Greenberg Jun 1, 2021 In “An American Marriage,” Michael Burlingame portrays Abraham and Mary as being constantly at each other’s throat. Continue Reading Save Share In César Aira's World, Life Is a Series of Chance Encounters by Sheila Glaser Jun 1, 2021 “The Divorce,” Aira’s newly translated novel, presents as many riddles as answers. Continue Reading Save Share All the World Needs Is a Glowing Blue Supermetal From Space by Ben H. Winters Jun 1, 2021 Benjamin Percy’s novel “The Ninth Metal” imagines a cutthroat race for meteor deposits with extraordinary properties. Continue Reading Save Share Ben Rhodes Takes a Gloomy Tour of the World by James Traub Jun 1, 2021 Rhodes’s “After the Fall” surveys the dangers America’s policies have helped create, and how those dangers are coming back to haunt us.Ben Rhodes, 2015 Continue Reading Save Share Michelle Orange Tackles a Writerly Taboo: Her Mother by Maggie Doherty Jun 1, 2021 Few subjects may be as resistant to successful literary examination. But in “Pure Flame” the author, assisted by a literature on feminism and motherhood, brings a cleareyed approach to her relationship with her mother, an ambitious businesswoman. Continue Reading Save Share As Venice Floods, a Lush, Malice-Infused Mystery Unfolds by Sarah Lyall Jun 1, 2021 In “Palace of the Drowned,” Christine Mangan explores the uneasy relationship between two women. Continue Reading Save Share Breaking Out of Prison With a Ouija Board and Some Clever Tricks by Chris Jennings Jun 1, 2021 “The Confidence Men,” by Margalit Fox, recounts the elaborate true-life saga of two British officers who escaped from an Ottoman prison camp during World War I by brainwashing and manipulating their captors. Continue Reading Save Share Drew Pearson, the Muckraking Journalist With the Bully Pulpit by Richard J. Tofel Jun 1, 2021 Donald A. Ritchie’s “The Columnist” describes the 37-year career of a journalist who was, in his time, one of the most powerful men in Washington.Drew Pearson at work, 1943. Continue Reading Save Share Kristen Arnett's Latest Subjects Are the Lesbian Parents of an Autistic-Coded Son by Naoise Dolan Jun 1, 2021 In “With Teeth,” two moms struggle to keep their marriage — and their neuroatypical child — alive. Continue Reading Save Share Nicola Yoon's New Book Is a Romance About a Teenager Who Doesn't Believe in Love by Aliza Weinberger Jun 1, 2021 In Nicola Yoon’s book “Instructions for Dancing,” a teenager who doesn’t believe in love rediscovers romance through dance classes. Continue Reading Save Share The Young Activist and the Atlanta Bar That Shaped Queer History by Elon Green Jun 1, 2021 In “A Night at the Sweet Gum Head,” Martin Padgett follows the L.G.B.T.Q. activist Bill Smith and the drag queen John Greenwell to chronicle 1970s queer history. Continue Reading Save Share Who Can You Count On? And Other Unanswerable but Alluring Questions. by Janice Y.K. Lee Jun 1, 2021 In “One Two Three,” Laurie Frankel takes readers to a small town ravaged by chemicals and into the lives of triplets whose lives are far from normal. Continue Reading Save Share

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