Week in Review: October 2, 2022
Curl Up With a Good Book: Fiction
Fall is the season of sweaters, tea, and big books! Here are some new works of fiction for you to consider as you keep warm in the autumn chill. (Come back tomorrow for our nonfiction recommendations!)
What makes Stephen King happy?
The answer is his new novel Fairy Tale. The epic tale of time travel and the battle between good and evil was conjured in the bleakness of the pandemic.
A return to form
George Saunders returns with a new collection of short stories in Liberation Day. The collection, he said, was meant to address how quickly life passes by.
Imagining Jackie before…
Anne Mah’s journalistic novel Jacqueline in Paris portrays Jacqueline Bouvier in her college year abroad, painting an origin story for the future first lady.
Worth the wait?
After a sixteen-year interlude, Cormac McCarthy delivers a two-volume series this fall: The Passenger will be published on October 25. The conclusion, Stella Maris, will be available on December 6.
More Blockbuster Decisions?
The Supreme Court’s 2022–23 term begins today and promises to be just as controversial and consequential as the previous term—which culminated with the overturning of Roe v. Wade. The current docket includes another challenge to the Voting Rights Act and a pair of affirmative-action cases that urge the Court to overturn its earlier decision in Grutter v. Bollinger (2003). This term also marks the debut of the newest justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to serve on the Court.
The 116th Supreme Court Justice
U.S. District Court, District of Columbia
Ending the Most Effective Civil Rights Bill?
Lyndon B. Johnson Library and Museum; photograph, Yoichi Okamoto
Affirmative Action or “Reverse Discrimination”?
Franz Jantzen/Supreme Court of the United States