Washington Post: Books
- In ‘Rites,’ Savannah Johnston portrays the aching, farcical nature of existence with stunning clarity
Monday - 09/27/2021 - 08:00 AMThe dozen stories consider the emotional, cultural and socioeconomic contexts that drive characters into behaviors that might otherwise be unfathomable.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - ‘Lean Fall Stand’ opens with a literal cliffhanger you won’t soon forget
Monday - 09/27/2021 - 02:47 PMAfter a gripping opening, Jon McGregor’s novel turns into a meditation on language and caregiving.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Russ Kick, writer, editor and ‘rogue transparency activist,’ dies at 52
Friday - 09/24/2021 - 10:29 AMHe used FOIA requests to pry loose government records. He also edited “The Graphic Canon,” a book series that reinterpreted literary works as comics and visual art.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Woke academics, Donald Trump and George Will’s ire
Friday - 09/24/2021 - 08:00 AMA new anthology showcases the conservative columnist’s observations and takedowns.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How to fritter away a family fortune
Friday - 09/24/2021 - 08:00 AMAnderson Cooper offers a fascinating portrait of his Vanderbilt ancestors.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The post-apocalyptic world of Joy Williams’s ‘Harrow’ reads like a cautionary tale
Thursday - 09/23/2021 - 09:46 AMWilliams’s urgent novel takes place on the shore of a rotting lake, where a group of eco-warriors has gathered.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Fresh off a Pulitzer win for ‘The Overstory,’ Richard Powers delivers another environmental ode
Tuesday - 09/21/2021 - 11:24 AM“Bewilderment,” longlisted for a National Book Award, follows a widower desperate to help his neurodivergent son.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - ‘Burning Man’ presents D.H. Lawrence in all his flawed brilliance
Wednesday - 09/22/2021 - 08:00 AMFrances Wilson’s biography is an unusual look at the controversial writer.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - T.C. Boyle captures the intersection of folly and progress. This time, it’s the ill-fated Project Nim.
Monday - 09/20/2021 - 08:00 AM‘Talk to Me,’ by T.C. Boyle, was inspired by a 1970s experiment in which researchers tried to teach a young chimpanzee American Sign Language.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How Trump endangered democracy, and how Biden hopes to repair it
Friday - 09/17/2021 - 05:27 AMBob Woodward and Robert Costa underline the two presidents’ different realities.
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- In ‘Rites,’ Savannah Johnston portrays the aching, farcical nature of existence with stunning clarity
Monday - 09/27/2021 - 12:47 PMThe dozen stories consider the emotional, cultural and socioeconomic contexts that drive characters into behaviors that might otherwise be unfathomable.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Jim Sheeler, Pulitzer-winning journalist who honored fallen troops, dies at 53
Friday - 09/24/2021 - 09:32 AMHe wrote richly detailed obituaries but was best known for “Final Salute,” an article and book about a U.S. Marine who helped comfort the families of troops killed in Iraq.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Thieving monkeys and felonious caterpillars: Mary Roach’s research for ‘Fuzz’ was full of surprises
Friday - 09/24/2021 - 08:00 AMIn “Fuzz,” Mary Roach explores how humans and wildlife coexist.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Recovering from a workplace crisis, with ideas for fixing our civic crisis
Friday - 09/24/2021 - 08:00 AMAnne-Marie Slaughter shares how she examined her own behavior, flaws and biases.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Jim Sheeler, Pulitzer-winning journalist who honored fallen troops, dies at 53
Saturday - 09/25/2021 - 08:47 AMHe wrote richly detailed obituaries but was best known for “Final Salute,” an article and book about a U.S. Marine who helped comfort the families of troops killed in Iraq.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ian Rankin took on the challenge of finishing his mentor’s book. The result is a darkly beautiful novel.
Wednesday - 09/22/2021 - 02:11 AM“The Dark Remains” captures perfectly the voice of the late William McIlvanney, master of Tartan Noir.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - If you love heroic fantasy a la George R.R. Martin, you’ll love ‘The Last Viking’
Wednesday - 09/22/2021 - 07:00 AMDon Hollway’s new novel is a fast-paced saga based on the life of Harald Hardrada, the 11th-century Norse adventurer
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Fresh off a Pulitzer win for ‘The Overstory,’ Richard Powers delivers another environmental ode
Wednesday - 09/22/2021 - 08:47 AM“Bewilderment,” longlisted for a National Book Award, follows a widower desperate to help his neurodivergent son.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Let’s talk about the best sword and sorcery books
Saturday - 09/18/2021 - 08:00 AMOur favorites include works by Tanith Lee, Karl Edward Wagner, Stephen King and Charles R. Saunders
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Now that you’ve read ‘The Midnight Library,’ let’s talk about the ending
Thursday - 09/16/2021 - 08:00 AMMatt Haig’s “The Midnight Library” is the perfect novel for our current moment.
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- ‘Lean Fall Stand’ opens with a literal cliffhanger you won’t soon forget
Monday - 09/27/2021 - 09:00 AMAfter a gripping opening, Jon McGregor’s novel turns into a meditation on language and caregiving.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - If a book could talk, what would it say? Ruth Ozeki has some ideas.
Saturday - 09/25/2021 - 08:00 AM“The Book of Form and Emptiness” is a tale of sorrow, danger and tentative redemption for a boy who hears the voices of inanimate objects.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Animals and humans on a collision course (sometimes literally)
Friday - 09/24/2021 - 08:00 AMQuirky tales of beasts just doing what comes naturally — and getting in our way.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A group of students, a secret tunnel and a daring escape from East Germany
Friday - 09/24/2021 - 08:00 AMHelena Merriman tells how a passage to freedom was dug under the Berlin Wall in 1962.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Animals and humans on a collision course (sometimes literally)
Friday - 09/24/2021 - 12:47 PMQuirky tales of beasts just doing what comes naturally — and getting in our way.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ian Rankin took on the challenge of finishing his mentor’s book. The result is a darkly beautiful novel.
Wednesday - 09/22/2021 - 04:47 PM“The Dark Remains” captures perfectly the voice of the late William McIlvanney, master of Tartan Noir.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Washington Post paperback bestsellers
Tuesday - 09/21/2021 - 04:01 AMA snapshot of popular books.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The bestseller ‘Black Boy Joy’ highlights the bright but overlooked experiences of Black boyhood
Tuesday - 09/21/2021 - 08:00 AMThis anthology by Kwame Mbalia is comprised of stories that have always existed but rarely get told.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - T.C. Boyle captures the intersection of folly and progress. This time, it’s the ill-fated Project Nim.
Monday - 09/20/2021 - 10:47 AM‘Talk to Me,’ by T.C. Boyle, was inspired by a 1970s experiment in which researchers tried to teach a young chimpanzee American Sign Language.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A 2,000-mile journey through Russia’s lonely borderlands with China
Friday - 09/17/2021 - 08:00 AMFollowing the Amur River, Colin Thubron discovers desolation and decay.
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