Welcome to the month of July. Odds are good that your Instagram has a higher-than-usual percentage of images of books read beside water and sand; odds are good that your social media feed abounds with frustration with humidity, public transit delays, and the joys of summer heat. July also brings with it a fascinating assortment of new (and newly translated) books, from thought-provoking fiction to incisive nonfiction. Here’s a look at some of the books that are on our minds […]
#tobyreads: Meditations on Music, Silence, and Art
Tracey Thorn’s discography is a laudable one: the groups Everything But the Girl and Marine Girls, collaborations with Massive Attack, and a group of acclaimed solo albums. Her memoir, Bedsit Disco Queen, delivered a lot of what I was expecting: there’s plenty of detail about Thorn’s creative process, and how it evolved through the years; there’s also plenty about her own personal aesthetics, and how they developed over time.
Morning Bites: Carl Wilson Interviewed, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Realism in Fiction, Rosie Schaap on Borscht, and More
In our morning reading: Patrick Leigh Fermor, Carl Wilson on the reissued Let’s Talk About Love, a discussion of realism in fiction, and more,