On the shelf The Freaks Came Out To Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture By Tricia Romano PublicAffairs: 571 pages, $35 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores While she was the Village Voice’s nightlife columnist in …
Living in Western diplomatic privilege with cooks and maids and drivers, the women in the new novel “Absolution” spend their days attending luncheons, lectures and cocktail parties as the Vietnam War rumbles in the background. Alice McDermott’s ninth novel perfectly captures the manner and mood of that era and the constricted lives that women led as “helpmeets” for their husbands. …
