The Sunday Supplement: #49
Sauces to get obsessed about, seventeen works of fiction from 2022, what it’s like to be a food critic who tastes color, and more
In case you need to buy some books this season, the shortlist just dropped for Spring 2023’s Tournament of Books. The list has a terrific range of fiction from last year that you might have missed. Here are the titles. If you go to the actual list, there’s plot descriptions for each book.
2 A.M. in Little America by Ken Kalfus
An Island by Karen Jennings
Babel by R. F. Kuang
The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li
Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet
Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin
Mercury Pictures Presents by Anthony Marra
Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson
My Volcano by John Elizabeth Stintzi
Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance by Alison Espach
Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez
The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
Unrelated, a major thank you to everyone who wrote in and/or shared that recent GQ story about my friend Lars and Holland’s “total football.” The article blew up, which was a surprise, and one consequence was I heard from people who knew Lars, or played for him, or just connected with the story somehow, and it’s been really gratifying.
As compared to Friday’s penalty shootout against Argentina, which was horrible.
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