New in Paperback: ‘The Copenhagen Trilogy,’ ‘Tom Stoppard: A Life’ and More

THE COPENHAGEN TRILOGY: Childhood; Youth; Dependency, by Tove Ditlevsen. Translated by Tiina Nunnally and Michael Favala Goldman. (Picador, 384 pp., $20.) This assortment of Ditlevesen’s memoirs, first revealed in Denmark within the Sixties and ’70s, describes her impoverished upbringing, profession path and unsparing addictions. This “unstinting account of the battle to reconcile artwork and life,” as our reviewer, Megan O’Grady, known as it, was one of many E book Evaluate’s 10 Greatest Books of 2021.

BLOOD GROVE, by Walter Mosley. (Mulholland, 320 pp., $16.99.) In 1969, Simple Rawlins, the Black and growing older personal detective, takes a case by which a younger white vet thinks he killed a person. Our reviewer, Sarah Weinman, wrote that this novel illustrates “the nation because it was, and is, fairly than the stuff of myths and desires.”

TOM STOPPARD: A Life, by Hermione Lee. (Classic, 912 pp., $20.) In response to the Instances critic Dwight Garner, this biography, an “estimable” in addition to “astute and authoritative” account of the Czech-born Jewish playwright’s huge life, “wrestles all of it onto the web page.” It was chosen as one of many Instances Critics high books of 2021.

THIS IS THE FIRE: What I Say to My Buddies About Racism, by Don Lemon. (Again Bay, 224 pp., $17.99.) This ebook is written as a letter from the CNN host to his nephew after the police killing of George Floyd in 2020, however “it’s arduous to not image Lemon talking every sentence by means of a digital camera to an unseen viewers of tens of millions,” our reviewer, Wesley Lowery, wrote. Lemon seamlessly jumps between sections on America’s previous and reflections on his personal life, “mixing our nation’s historical past along with his personal.”