{"id":72258,"date":"2025-10-13T17:50:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T17:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/72258\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T17:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T17:50:12","slug":"briefly-noted-book-reviews-the-new-yorker-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/72258\/","title":{"rendered":"Briefly Noted Book Reviews | The New Yorker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A book cover.\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-eNxvmU cfBbTk responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/r47724.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The Gods of New York, by Jonathan Mahler (Random House). This chronicle of New York City covers four \u201cconvulsive and consequential\u201d years in its history, 1986 through 1989, an era that included the AIDS and crack epidemics, rolling corruption scandals, rising crime, and a giddy Wall Street high on junk bonds. The book tracks activists, artists, politicians, and tycoons\u2014Larry Kramer, Spike Lee, Ed Koch, Rudy Giuliani, and Donald Trump, among others\u2014as they vie to make their marks, creating legacies still palpable today. Each chapter covers a single year, shifting between characters and story lines in a narrative as sprawling and multifaceted as the city itself.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A book cover.\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-eNxvmU cfBbTk responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/r47725.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Trying, by Chlo\u00e9 Caldwell (Graywolf). In this electrically candid memoir about attempting to get pregnant without I.V.F., Caldwell writes, \u201cSupposedly the definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over but expect different results, but isn\u2019t that precisely what trying to get pregnant and failing is?\u201d Caldwell, an essay writer and teacher, manages to be funny while handling tender subjects, such as infertility and the discovery that her husband has an extramarital sex addiction. \u201cI knew something was wrong,\u201d she recounts. \u201cI thought it was perhaps blocked fallopian tubes, and it ended up being sex workers in Geneva.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An illustrated GIF of three figures reading while walking.\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-eNxvmU cfBbTk responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Books_Desktop_1.gif\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Illustration by Ben Hickey<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Discover notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A book cover.\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-eNxvmU cfBbTk responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/r47726.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Gods of New York, by Jonathan Mahler (Random House). This chronicle of New York City covers four&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[412,146,85,46,1619,18531],"class_list":{"0":"post-72258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-magazine","13":"tag-textaboveleftsmallwithrule"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}