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arrow Meet the Big Apple Book Ballot candidates The June primary is just around the corner, and when New Yorkers get to their polling place this year they'll be confronted with a new type of ballot, one that allows you to rank your top five choices — welcome to the era of ranked-choice voting in NYC. To help New Yorkers get acquainted with the new method, we've been hosting some practice elections. You may recall that in February, Mayor Lenny of Ghostbusters won our race for Fictional Mayor of NYC, after which we provided a breakdown of how his victory played out through several roun...

Minari. Courtesy of Sundance Institute Eight films are in the running for Best Picture, the most prestigious award at the Oscars, this year. That’s a lot of movies to watch, analyze, and enjoy. So in the days leading up to the April 25 ceremony, Vox staffers look at each of the nominees in turn. What makes this film appealing to Academy voters? What makes it emblematic of the year? And should it win? Below, Vox film critic Alissa Wilkinson, senior culture reporter Alex Abad-Santos, identities reporter Fabiola Cineas, and critic at large Emily VanDerWerff talk about Minari, Lee Isaac Chung�...

Chang-rae Lee recommends 6 tales about encountering new worlds Courtesy image Today's best articles Daily business briefing , follows a college student as he tries to reset after a wild junket to China. Below, the Stanford writing professor and author of Native Speaker recommends six tales about encountering new worlds. The story of Isabel Archer is a classic tale of an "American innocent" abroad. James' ability to draw out the countless complications of a life, as he learned from Turgenev and achieved in singularly gorgeous prose, makes for a riveting and tragic account of this "certain yo...

Feb 13, 2021 There are times when Chang-rae Lee — Pulitzer fiction finalist, PEN/Hemingway Award winner, English professor at Stanford University, beloved novelist with a sixth one recently released — wonders if he can write. My Year Abroad, by Chang-rae Lee 477 pages RIVERHEAD With every book he has published, he said, he has thought about the accolades he has received since his 1995 debut, “Native Speaker,” and thought, “This is all mirrors. It could dissipate. It’s fog.” Over the years that Lee spent working on his latest novel, “My Year Abroad,” there were many ...

Chang-rae Lee on Elena Ferrante,'Luster,' and the Book He's Re-Read the Most ELLE 3/02/2021 Riza Cruz © Illustration by Mia Feitel and Yousra Attia The Pulitzer and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, and author of My Year Abroad, takes our literary survey. Welcome to Shelf Life, ELLE.com’s books column>>>P, in which authors share their most memorable reads. Whether you’re on the hunt for a book to console you, move you profoundly, or make you laugh, consider a recommendation from the writers in our series, who, like you (since you’re here), love books. ...