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Celebrate Banned Books Week by… reading banned books!
Every year, the last week of September is officially Banned Books Week. As the American Library Association—who promote the annual campaign, along with Amnesty International—explain on their website, BBW “brings…
Pride Month Reads
…American history, exciting and uplifting. Night Beast / Ruth Joffre A masterful collection from an important new voice in American fiction, Night Beast is profoundly original, gorgeous. These doomed love…
Father’s Day Reads: The Naturalist
…to be the greatest science book ever published. The Eternal Frontier / Tim Flannery The unforgettable story of the geological and biological evolution of the North American continent, from the…
Browsing the Backlist: Six Quintessential Earth Day Reads
…outdoors in all its glory and exasperation. With chapters ranging from a reconsideration of the Great American Lawn, a dispatch from one man’s war with a woodchuck, to an essay…
“Do they know about Martin Luther King?”: from the epilogue of Charles Kaiser’s 1968 in America, newly published this month in a thirtieth anniversary edition
…elegant and beautiful. It may have been the best speech any Kennedy ever gave; it was certainly one of the most remarkable speeches any American has ever given. It would…
Prophet
by Sin Blaché and Helen MacdonaldNOSTALGIA HAS NEVER BEEN MORE DEADLY “A crackling, shape-shifting romp with big ideas and a bigger heart . . . A delight.”—C Pam Zhang From the extraordinary minds of award-winning…
The Pessimists
by Bethany BallFrom Center for Fiction First Novel Prize finalist Bethany Ball comes a biting and darkly funny new novel that follows a set of privileged, jaded Connecticut suburbanites whose cozy, seemingly…
Correspondents
by Tim Murphy“Murphy artfully connects multiple narratives to produce a sprawling tale of love, family, duty, war, and displacement. It is above all a stinging indictment of the ill-fated war in Iraq…
Virgil Wander
by Leif EngerThe first novel in ten years from award-winning, million-copy bestselling author Leif Enger, Virgil Wander follows the inhabitants of a Midwestern town in their quest to revive its flagging heart….
The Retreat of Western Liberalism
by Edward Luce“Insightful and harrowing . . . lucidly expounds on the erosion of the West’s middle classes, the dysfunction among its political and economic elites, and the consequences for America and…
