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59/100Critics
67/100Scholars
Author:
Craig Taylor
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Date:
March 23, 2021
A symphony of contemporary New York through the words of its people, from the author of Londoners.
What The Reviewers Say
Thankfully, New Yorkers is not War and Peace, with its several hundred characters. Taylor culled and cut a lot. But among those who made it into New Yorkers, some are unforgettable.
... a grand fugue for organ, with all the stops pulled out. It is a gift right now, when New York City is coming back from a pandemic winter that has been the ruin of many a favourite restaurant, bar and sandwich shop, and put the lives of anyone in the performing arts on pause indefinitely. Contrary to popular reports, New York is no ghost town. In New Yorkers the city is hopping, punching, reeling, dancing, thrumming, honking, thriving.
The world depicted here can be a harsh and bleak one, but not without humanity and wit, which Taylor captures superbly.
I’ve lived in Britain for more than 35 years and in London for a quarter century. But New York is my hometown.
