The year is half over, if you can believe it. Time marches ever forward, into the abyss. Books, though, can smooth the passage. If you choose wisely, that is. To that end, here are the novels, collections, and works of nonfiction we’re keeping an eye on for the rest of the year. Let us know what you’re looking forward to most in the comments.
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David Thomson, A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies
Simon & Schuster, July 7
As highlighted in our first half preview: David Thomson has been writing about film for fifty years, so when he argues (as he does in this book ) that “movies have been a destructive force—responsible for creating an alternate reality and fantasyland that has only deepened the isolation and disconnection of our society over the course of a century,” I’m inclined to hear him out. (And not only because movies are too long to watch at night when I could be sleeping.) –Jessie Gaynor, Senior Editor
