![]() In 2013, Akhtar won a Pulitzer Prize for “Disgraced,” a dinner-party-gone-wrong drama that deals with Muslim American life, 9/11, money and politics. Its author is best known as a playwright. This beautiful novel, about an American son and his immigrant father, has echoes of “The Great Gatsby” and circles, with pointed intellect, the possibilities and limitations of American life. ‘HOMELAND ELEGIES’ By Ayad Akhtar (Little, Brown and Company). John Williams, Daily Books Editor and Staff Writer Dwight Garner ![]() ![]() For more of their thoughts about the year, you can read their related roundtable discussion. Below, The New York Times’s three daily book critics - Dwight Garner, Parul Sehgal and Jennifer Szalai - share their thoughts about their favorites among the books they reviewed this year, each list alphabetical by author.Īn annual note on methodology: The critics limit themselves in making these lists, each selecting only from those books they reviewed for The Times since last year at this time. ![]() New fiction came from Elena Ferrante, Ayad Akhtar, Sigrid Nunez and others. There were memoirs by a president, a painter and a poet. ![]() There was revelatory reporting about the opioid epidemic, accounts of the sometimes perilous and pernicious effects of social media, and a wide-lens view of life in Tibet. They brought timely and timeless tidings. While much of the cultural world stood still or shuttered in 2020, books kept arriving, even if some of them were released later than originally planned. ![]()
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