When Kristin Hannah set out to write to write her 20th novel, about the impact that going off to war takes on an already crumbling 12-year marriage and a young family, she decided against taking the traditional route.
Forgive me for being cynical, but I have a hard time believing that the White House and Michelle Obama are really upset by the portrayal of the first lady that emerges in Jodi Kantor’s new look at the president’s marital union. In the annals of irregularities that first ladies have been justly or unjustly accused of, sparring with a chief of staff — particularly one as combative as Rahm Emanuel — hardly registers as shocking or unexpected.
Last fall, the Library of America released two volumes featuring authors who wrote during the Harlem Renaissance, that vague early 20th century era when black novelists, artists, poets, musicians, essayists and even publishers pushed black culture to the forefront.
After publishing Postwar, his sweeping history of Europe since 1945, Tony Judt prepared to write an equally ambitious intellectual and cultural history of 20th-century social thought. But personal history intervened, in the form of Lou Gehrig’s disease. By late 2008, Judt could no longer use his hands. Two years later, he was dead.
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