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standup, go to Netflix and turn on Stage Fright right now. Not only will you see the brilliant co- median and actor successfully make an Anne Frank joke, but you’ll learn about her beauti- ful, funny, and stylish Jewish family. Slate also writes beautiful, funny, and stylish essays. Her last, hard-to-summarize collec- tion, Little Weirds , was an instant bestsel- ler. This new volume details her journey into motherhood. In characteristically genre-bus- ting fashion, she manifests everything from animal gossip to obituaries to exploring the wild, hard, and life-affirming feelings that come up as one brings life into this world.
tails of his adolescence in Rome. From the maroon cravat his uncle wore to pick him up from the port to the sharkskin suitcases his mother brought from Egypt, he evokes anot- her time and world. Eventually, Aciman falls in love with Rome, sad to leave it behind when his family moves to the U.S. a few years later. If you don’t have your own Roman holiday planned, this book could tempt you to book a flight.
The Myth of American Idealism : How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers The World Noam Chomsky and Nathan J. Robinson (Penguin Press, October 15) A new book by public intellectual and social critic Noam Chomsky is always a publishing event; this one, almost certain to be his last (Chomsky is 95 and reportedly in ill health) will be no exception. With co-author Nathan J. Robinson, the founding editor of Current Af fairs magazine, Chomsky takes readers on a tour of America’s deployments of mi- litary, financial, and political power across the world: there are chapters devoted to Af- ghanistan, Iraq, Israel, China, and beyond. The latter part of the book is devoted to an analysis of the domestic and international systems that enabled America to reach so far, and an examination of “how mythologies are manufactured.” The timing of the book’s publication, three weeks before the Ameri- can election, is sure to add extra energy to the conversations it ignites.
Roman Year: A Memoir André Aciman
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 22) You may know André Aciman as the author of the Call Me by Your Name , the book-tur- ned-award-winning film that tells a coming- of-age story about teenage love. Before he ever set foot in the novel’s Italian setting, the acclaimed Jewish writer was born and raised in Alexandria, Egypt. His new memoir, Roman Year , chronicles the teenage Aciman transitioning from living his luxurious Egypti- an life to moving into a rented apartment in Rome with his mother and brother. Aciman, now 73, draws on the smallest de-
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Didion and Babitz Lili Anolik (Scribner, November 12) Paging all lovers of literary gossip: an investi-
(Little, Brown and Company, October 22) If you’ve not seen Jenny Slate’s phenomenal
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