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By Geraldine Brooks December 16, 2022 — 3.59pm , register or subscribe to save articles for later. This story is part of the December 17 Edition of Good Weekend. See all 22 stories. Early this year, when I told people I was building a hibernaculum,…
December 16, 2022
Article at The Sydney Morning Herald
Viking Books asks Geraldine Brooks some fascinating questions about her new novel, Horse. HORSE is based on a real-life racehorse named Lexington, one of the most famous thoroughbreds in American history. How did you learn about him? I had just…
January 11, 2022
Article at Geraldine Brooks
HAMNET A Novel of the Plague By Maggie O’Farrell “Hamnet” is an exploration of marriage and grief written into the silent opacities of a life that is at once extremely famous and profoundly obscure. [ The editors of The Book Review chose this as one…
July 17, 2020
Article at New York Times
In the summer of 1990, before Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, I took a rare break from my job as a Middle East correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. Escaping the hot, dusty landscapes of my beat for a few days, I went for a restorative ramble…
April 23, 2020
Article at WSJ
It was a hot day in June, 30 years ago. I was sweating in a chador, a speck in the black-clad throng of mourners pouring through Tehran for the funeral of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. As the keening crowd surged dangerously toward the grave site, I…
January 08, 2020
Article at New York Times
THE SILENCE OF THE GIRLS By Pat Barker 293 pp. Doubleday. $27.95. “War is men’s business,” Hector says in the “Iliad.” Pat Barker begs to differ. The British novelist has made war her subject, winning the 1995 Booker Prize for “Ghost Road,” the final…
September 27, 2018
Article at New York Times
THE RED-HAIRED WOMAN By Orhan Pamuk Translated by Ekin Oklap 272 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $27.95. A sense of place animates many novelists, but few more than Orhan Pamuk, for whom personal geography is artistic destiny. Istanbul, his home and his muse,…
October 16, 2017
Article at New York Times
Their plans were quite precise: they wouldn’t attack women, or the elderly, or children like themselves. Their targets, they agreed, would be men in their late teens and early twenties—young men of military age. All this was settled between them…
May 27, 2017
Article at The New Yorker
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED SLEEPING By Aharon Appelfeld Translated by Jeffrey M. Green 288 pp. Schocken Books. $26. The Israeli novelist Aharon Appelfeld has said he must hear “the music” of a novel before he can begin to write it. If that’s so, then…
February 03, 2017
Article at New York Times
This 20 minute segment has wonderful art and a very wide ranging interview about The Secret Chord.http://www.hectv.org/watch/maryville-talks-books/the-secret-chord-one-on-one-with-geraldine-brooks/21227/
January 05, 2016
Article at Geraldine Brooks
It’s dark when we nose down the driveway on the way to the 7 a.m. ferry. This year, for the first time, my 12-year-old son is going to school on the mainland, or “over in America,” as some old-time Martha’s Vineyard residents say. We carpool with the…
December 24, 2015
Article at WSJ
The novel was coming along quite well, until I got to the foreskins. I write historical fiction. Some consider this an outré craft. If literary fiction is Brooklyn, the historical novel is Queens. It’s a “gimcrack genre” to the critic James Wood, “a…
December 11, 2015
Article at New York Times
“A thundering, gritty, emotionally devastating reconsideration of the story of King David makes a masterly case for the generative power of retelling,” says Alana Newhouse in the Oct 25th Book Review. “What’s added, to blazing effect, are the other…
October 16, 2015
Article at Geraldine Brooks
“Beautifully drawn in its complexity and sheer joy,” says Alice Hoffman, author of many novels, including The Dovekeepers. Read her full Washington Post review here:…
September 29, 2015
Article at Geraldine Brooks
The UK’s Top 10 Books of the Month names The Secret Chord “spellbinding. The People of the Book was a properly luxurious affair – boldly plotted, deftly written and masterly in its blend of intelligence and pace. The Secret Chord is much the same,…
September 24, 2015
Article at Geraldine Brooks
“In her gorgeously written novel of ambition, courage, retribution, and triumph, Brooks imagines the life and character of King David in all his complexity, from his humble childhood through old age. A brilliant harpist and singer with immense…
August 26, 2015
Article at Geraldine Brooks
Book Expo at the vast Javits Center can be overwhelming, so it was good to see so many booksellers I know at my signing. I had such an amazing time connecting with so many of my readers. We took lots of photos together which you can see over on my…
July 22, 2015
Article at Geraldine Brooks
Andrew Lincoln as Michael Mompellion in Year of Wonders? His company has optioned the novel. Now, who should play Anna Frith?
July 22, 2015
Article at Geraldine Brooks
Four countries, thirty cities. My biggest tour ever, for The Secret Chord, kicks off October 6 in Boston. You can see all my dates here
July 22, 2015
Article at Geraldine Brooks
Honored to chair the National Book Award’s Fiction jury, and to present the prize to Phil Klay, for Redeployment.
July 21, 2015
Article at Geraldine Brooks