It spans 500 years - from before Christopher Columbus’s arrival to after the death of Fidel Castro - and details its history of occupation, revolution and more. This sweeping account of Cuba shared the award for history. Ultimately, the episode - and the ensuing cross-cultural negotiation between Indigenous communities and white colonists - helped pave the way for a treaty still recognized today.Image ‘Cuba: An American History,’ by Ada Ferrer (Scribner) Eustace, a professor at New York University, explores how the case’s immediate aftermath ushered in a fierce debate about justice, contrasting the Indigenous perspective and its focus on reconciliation and forgiveness with that of the white colonists, who often favored retribution. HISTORY ‘Covered With Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America,’ by Nicole Eustace (Liveright)Īlso a finalist for the National Book Award, this account shows the lasting consequences of the 1722 killing of an Indigenous hunter in Pennsylvania by two white traders. It is an infuriating, frustrating, pretentious piece of work - and also absorbing, delightful, hilarious, breathtaking and the best and most relevant novel I’ve read in what feels like forever.” In The New York Times Book Review, Taffy Brodesser-Akner called it “a generational campus novel, an unyielding academic lecture, a rigorous meditation on Jewish identity, an exhaustive meditation on Jewish American identity, a polemic on Zionism, a history lesson. The novel explores themes of Jewishness and diaspora as Netanyahu’s fatalistic view of Jewish history bumps up against that of Blum, an assimilated American Jewish professor. The book is narrated by Ruben Blum, a faculty member asked to consider Netanyahu’s fitness for the job. News From the New York Times, May 9, 2022įICTION ‘The Netanyahus,’ by Joshua Cohen (New York Review Books)Ĭohen’s book imagines Benzion Netanyahu, academic and father of the Israeli prime minister, arriving to interview for a job at a fictional New York college (modeled on Cornell) in the late 1950s.
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