Art Imitates Life in "The Silver Book" - Chicago Review of Books
Our review of Olivia Laing's new novel, "The Silver Book."
"As this potent novel demonstrates, whether in art or politics we must be careful whoβs doing the constructing."
Sara Batkie's review of βThe Silver Bookβ by Brisa Carlton (@fsgbooks.bsky.social) is out now.
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An Extravagant Dive Into Italian Cinema, Filled With Love and Death
"Sublime . . . [A] visceral portrait of Italian renegade filmmaking . . . Laingβs prose is taut and clear-eyed." @nytimes.com
THE SILVER BOOK is out now!
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THE DREAM FACTORY is Daniel Swiftβs riveting look at Londonβs first playhouse and how Shakespeare became Shakespeare, told through the peopleβactors, writers, builders, investorsβwho helped create the Theatre. bit.ly/4qUNrXw
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WHAT TO EAT NOW is a field guide to grocery shopping and a treatise on how to eat well and deliciously from Marion Nestle, Americaβs preeminent nutritionist. bit.ly/4hQmgZG
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In Olivia Laing hypnotic new novel, THE SILVER BOOKβset in the months leading up to the murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975βart, power, desire, and illusion collide. bit.ly/43nzCqp
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George Packerβs THE EMERGENCY is a gripping fable of imperial collapse that illuminates the crises of our times. bit.ly/47zK2FX
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Film Rites, by Olivia Laing
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βThis is what I emerged from, Dani says, looking with disgust at the drainage ditches that line the road. Low horizons. In more ways than one.β
Olivia Laing from The Silver Book, which will be published this November by @fsgbooks.bsky.social.
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π£NYers, Cynthia Zarin presents Estate on November 12 - 7:00pm at McNally Jackson Seaport!
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Check out the cover for our inaugural title, @kevinhartnett.bsky.socialβs THE PROOF IN THE CODE, coming June 9, 2026! Shoutout @fsgbooks.bsky.social for the beautiful design. Want a copy of your own? You can now preorder here: us.macmillan.com/books/978037....
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On the trail of the Siberian tiger β βa knot of muscle and rageβ
In Tigers Between Empires, Jonathan Slaght follows the daring conservation project which is saving these big cats from extinction
"You sense the silences and threats of the deep forest. You taste the pungently Siberian flavor of the desperately remote towns." Nice review of TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES from The Times (of London). Owls of the Eastern Ice won Times Nature Book of the Year in 2021. www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
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ESTATE by Cynthia Zarin is a tight, compressed tour de force of a novel that sweeps across time and spaceβfrom New Guinea to word games, Italian cinema to communication theoryβbringing to mind Annie Ernaux and Elena Ferrante. bit.ly/47mzWrT
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INDIGNITY is Lea Ypiβs exciting reimagining of the past, spanning the vanished world of Ottoman aristocracy, the making of modern Greece and Albania, a global financial crisis, and the horrors of war and the dawn of communism in the Balkans. bit.ly/48UTBQS
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TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES by @jonathanslaght.com is the thrilling saga of the great Amur tiger and the scientists who came together, across the world, to save it. bit.ly/3JEAMal
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A finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, PALAVER is finally here! This is a life-affirming novel of family, mending, and how we learn to love, from Bryan Washington. bit.ly/4oQtK0X
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MAMBA & MAMBACITA FOREVER is a beautiful and moving testament to the enduring lives of Kobe and Gianna Bryant, and the murals that went up to honor their legacies. In stores November 18. Read more at @peoplemag.bsky.socialβs exclusive inside look: people.com/kobe-bryant-...
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The lesson: Nobody survives the wilderness alone. In love with hazard orange and tranquil blue, the humor and danger all caught up together. Thanks @corraldesign.bsky.social (design) and Giacomo Girardi (art), and everyone at @fsgbooks.bsky.social, for promoting beautiful, true caregiver stories.
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Jacket design by @corraldesign.bsky.social, jacket art by Giacomo Girardi.
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COVER REVEAL! π A GUIDE TO OPEN WATER LIFESAVING by @virginiaeeubanks.bsky.social is a spirited, wise, often hilarious, profoundly moving story of one woman's efforts to survive caregiving, trauma, love, and the systems seemingly set up to fail us. Available on August 11, 2026. bit.ly/4hAFUJb
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Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash
Loaded with snarky one-liners and absurdist set pieces, Cashβs glittering debut novel (after the collection Earth Angel) follows...
Loaded with snarky one-liners and absurdist set pieces, Madeline Cashβs glittering debut novel follows the middle-class Flynn family as they try and fail to find a sense of purpose. Itβs unforgettable. @fsgbooks.bsky.social
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Katherine Dunnβs Stories, Newly Unearthed, Float and Sting
Katherine Dunn's "first and only collection of short fiction, gleaned from her archive, pulses with energy and struggling characters." @nytimes.com
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Congratulations to our National Book Award finalists Bryan Washington and Yiyun Li!
PALAVER by Bryan Washington is a finalist for the Award for Fiction, and THINGS IN NATURE MERELY GROW by Yiyun Li is a finalist for the Award for Nonfiction.
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BIRD SCHOOL describes and follows Adam Nicolsonβs progress over two or three years in trying to learn about, and eventually to create an environment friendly to, the birds of the farm where he lives in Sussex. bit.ly/46mb29T
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In TOMORROW IS YESTERDAY the analyst Hussein Agha and the diplomat Robert Malley offer a personal and bracing perspective on why the IsraeliβPalestinian peace process failed, and anticipate what lies ahead. bit.ly/4gnljHs
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The Love Story of James Baldwin: A conversation with Nicholas Boggs
Podcast Episode Β· You Are What You Read Β· 09/09/2025 Β· 34m
π§ Listen here: Nicholas Boggs joins the You Are What You Read podcast to talk about literary icon James Baldwin and his new biography BALDWIN: A LOVE STORY.
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The Emergency by George Packer
Packer, a journalist and winner of the National Book Award for The Unwinding, delivers a propulsive Orwellian novel set in a str...
George Packer, a journalist and winner of the National Book Award for The Unwinding, delivers a propulsive Orwellian novel set in a strange future world known as βthe empire.β Itβs a knockout. @fsgbooks.bsky.social
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