Featuring 484 Industry-First Reviews of Fiction, Nonfiction, Children'sand YA Books KIRKUSVOL. LXXXVI, NO. 15 | 1 AUGUST 2018 REVIEWS U.S. Olympic medalist Ibtihaj Muhammad’s memoir, Proud, released simultaneously in two versions—one for young readers, another for adults—is thoughtful and candid. It’s also a refreshingly diverse Cinderella story at a time when anti-black and anti-Muslim sentiments are high. p. 102 from the editor’s desk: Chairman Excellent August Books HERBERT SIMON President & Publisher BY CLAIBORNE SMITH MARC WINKELMAN # Chief Executive Officer MEG LABORDE KUEHN
[email protected] Photo courtesy Michael Thad Carter courtesy Photo Editor-in-Chief Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anana CLAIBORNE SMITH Giridharadas (Aug. 28): “Give a hungry man a fish, and you get to pat
[email protected] Vice President of Marketing yourself on the back—and take a tax deduction. It’s a matter of some SARAH KALINA
[email protected] irony, John Steinbeck once observed of the robber barons of the Gilded Managing/Nonfiction Editor ERIC LIEBETRAU Age, that they spent the first two-thirds of their lives looting the public
[email protected] Fiction Editor only to spend the last third giving the money away. Now, writes politi- LAURIE MUCHNICK cal analyst and journalist Giridharadas, the global financial elite has
[email protected] Children’s Editor reinterpreted Andrew Carnegie’s view that it’s good for society for VICKY SMITH
[email protected] capitalists to give something back to a new formula: It’s good for busi- Young Adult Editor Claiborne Smith LAURA SIMEON ness to do so when the time is right, but not otherwise….A provocative
[email protected] Staff Writer critique of the kind of modern, feel-good giving that addresses symptoms and not causes.” MEGAN LABRISE
[email protected] Sweet Little Lies by Caz Frear (Aug.