Catch and Kill
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow was released this week, and it’s really good. The book spans a period of three years, between 2016 and 2019, covering Farrow’s investigation into, publication of, related research and the aftermath of his exposé on Harvey Weinstein in the New Yorker. …
Let’s Talk About Slate’s Where The Crawdads Sing Exposé
So, apparently, 2019 is the year of the literary exposé, and this time Where the Crawdads Sing is the book on the hot seat. Earlier this year, the New Yorker published a pretty thorough takedown of The Woman in the Window author A. J. Finn, and now Slate is taking a hard look into the …
The Imperfectionists
If you didn’t already, take a look at the subtitle. I did not like this book and was, in fact, offended by it. Tom Rachman’s The Imperfectionists takes us into the inner workings and private lives of a cadre of professionals at an English-language newspaper based in Rome. The novel is told in a series …