The theme of the week is crossing boundaries and borders; it's so on the nose that I'm a little ashamed What I read this week No God But Us by Bobuq Sayed "Istanbul is where the people displaced by all the wars end up. They&
The theme of the week is "Every piece of writing is a wager about how things may or may not hold together, on the page and off." – Emily Labarge What I read this week Dog Days by Emily Labarge I love books like this: a big fat blend
This week's theme is somebody's watching you. What I read this week Men Like Ours by Bindu Bansinath What a propulsive and assured debut novel! I know Bindu a little bit from her work at The Cut, and we've been to a few book
This week's theme is inheritances. What I read this week American Rambler by Isaac Fitzgerald It's always illuminating to read a friend's personal writing about a time period when you sort of knew what was going on but not exactly. Sporadic texts are not
This week's theme is the excesses of girlhood What I read this week Last Night in Brooklyn by Xochitl Gonzalez It's been a long time since a novel has captured a particular time and a place with such love and precision of feeling, if not fact.
The theme this week is sequels you can enjoy even if you haven't read the previous novel. What I read this week A Violent Masterpiece by Jordan Harper My friend Sarah Weinman gave Jordan Harper's new novel a rave in the New York Times, calling A
This week's theme is college in the late 1990s was wild. I can attest. What I read this week Transcription by Ben Lerner I'm a Ben Lerner completist. I am always intrigued by his work, as long as I can block out the sounds of his
The theme of the week is hurt people hurt people. What I read this week Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund by Molly Crabapple I never thought that in my adult life I would spend so much time thinking about what it means
This week's theme is errant children What I read this week London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth by Patrick Radden Keefe When you think of "narrative nonfiction," Patrick Radden Keefe is likely the writer whose
The theme of this week is primogeniture. What I read this week The Keeper by Tana French Tana French is a stop-everything-and-read author for me, and so I was lucky when the audiobook version of The Keeper was uploaded to the PRH audio app last week just when I was
This week's theme is homecomings What I read this week The Fountain by Casey Scieszka For transparency: Casey is a member of my writing group. That said, she joined when this novel was pretty much in the bag so there is not much reflected glory that I can
This week's theme is multiple POVs. The other theme is air travel in America and how canceled flights and persnickety wifi can really throw off a newsletter writer (sorry this is a day late!). What I read this week Whidbey by T Kira Madden An explosive revenge novel