Jun 23, 2018

TKAM on The Cover of The Sunday NY Times Book Review



“To Kill a Mockingbird,” widely considered to be one of the best American novels ever written — and certainly one of the most widely read — has been on the national conscience lately. There was the long-delayed publication of the novel’s “companion” volume, “Go Set a Watchman,” in 2015, and the subsequent controversy. Lee’s death in 2016. The disputes over the estate. And coming later this year, a Broadway play based on the novel, also the subject of dispute. We thought it fitting to reexamine the book on our pages, which two new nonfiction works also make timely. On our cover, the novelist, essayist and critic Roxane Gay reviews “Why ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Matters,” by Tom Santopietro, and Howell Raines, a former executive editor of The Times, reviews Joseph Crespino’s “Atticus Finch: The Biography.” We’ve also reprinted our original 1960 review of the novel (it was a rave) for the occasion."
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  1. There's already a stage play based on TKAM. I remember seeing it at the Shakespeare Theatre in Montgomery some years ago.

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