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The Best YA Abduction Stories

May 24, 2022May 26, 2022 Lily Moayeri 0 Comments Abduction, Brie Larson, Carolyn Lee Adams, Elizabeth Scott, Ellen Emerson White, Emma Donoghue, Grown, Janie Johnson, Jayce Dugard, Kathy Bates, Luanne Rice, Lucy Christopher, Muted, Natasha Preston, Stephen King, Stolen, Tami Charles, The Cellar, Tiffany D. Jackson

Teens love the genre, as long as the abductees eventually escape

Phil Klay

The Uncertainties of Phil Klay

May 17, 2022May 19, 2022 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments Phil Klay, Redeployment, Tim O'Brien, Uncertain Ground

Ex-Marine struggles with his conscience–and the Iraq War–in a captivating book of essays

Treasures of the Thames

May 11, 2022May 15, 2022 Rebecca Kurson 0 Comments Malcolm Russell, Mudlark'd, The Quincunx

An interview with historian Malcolm Russell, who dredges up a secret history in a beautiful new book

Dyer

Memoir NON-FICTION

Geoff Dyer and the Art of the Navel Gaze

May 3, 2022May 5, 2022 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments Bob Dylan, Geoff Dyer, Jack Kerouac, Larry McMurtry, The Last Days of Roger Federer

The essayist sings himself and celebrates himself, but at what cost?

Lennon

John Lennon Vs. the Mob

May 1, 2022May 18, 2022 Jim Sullivan 1 Comment Jay Bergen, John Lennon, Morris Levy

Lennon’s lawyer tells the story of his near-forgotten rights battles with mobster Morris Levy

Vanity Fair

Bonfire of the Vanity Fair

April 5, 2022April 8, 2022 Jon Hart 1 Comment Christopher Hitchens, Dana Brown, Dilettante, Evan Wright, Graydon Carter, The Devil Wears Prada, Tom Hanks, Vanity Fair

Dana Brown’s memoir about Vanity Fair’s heyday brings back the glamour–and the fall

Riding With Evil

‘Riding With Evil’

March 22, 2022March 24, 2022 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments Dave Wedge, Ken Croke, Pagans, Riding With Evil

An interview with the co-writer of a book about infiltrating the USA’s most notorious and violent biker gang

Coach K

Biography NON-FICTION

The Most Hated Man of March

March 9, 2022March 13, 2022 Jon Hart 2 Comments Bobby Knight, Christian Laettner, Coach K, Duke, Ian O'Connor, March Madness, Mike Krzyzewski

Ian O’Connor tells the definitive story of Duke’s Coach K

Laytner

‘What They Didn’t Burn’

March 9, 2022March 10, 2022 Elizabeth Hazard 0 Comments Auschwitz, Holocaust, Mel Laytner, What They Didn't Burn

Mel Laytner was shocked to discover his father had been a prisoner in Auschwitz. A BFG interview.

Shackleton

The Compleat Shackleton

March 8, 2022March 15, 2022 Moe Bowstern 0 Comments Chasing Shackleton, Ernest Shackleton, Shackleton's Antarctica, The Folio Society, Tim Jarvis

The Folio Society brings us the great Antarctic adventure in full

Odenkirk

Memoir NON-FICTION

Bob Odenkirk Makes a Memoir

March 8, 2022March 11, 2022 Trevor Seigler 0 Comments Ben Stiller, Better Call Saul, Bob Odenkirk, Breaking Bad, David Cross, Eric Wareheim, Mr. Show, Robert Smigel, Saturday Night Live, Tim Heidecker

The tale of his long and fractured road to stardom

Late Fees

AUTHOR STUFF FICTION NON-FICTION Politics

A Fine Idea

February 25, 2022February 24, 2022 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Austin, Chicago, fines, late fees, libraries, Phoenix

Austin, TX, is the latest public-library district to eliminate late fees for overdue books

The Nineties

Chuck Klosterman Remembers ‘The Nineties’

February 8, 2022April 3, 2022 Raymond Cummings 0 Comments Chuck Klosterman, David Halberstam, Generation X, The Fifties, The Nineties

The author revisits a weird, hybrid decade during which it seemed like nothing was happening, but everything was actually starting to happen

Colorful wall of books on the shelfs at the rotunda in Stockholm Stadsbibliotek (Public Library), April 22, 2017. The building is from 1928 and the architect is Gunnar Asplund. (Photo: Stefan Holm/Shutterstock)

FICTION NON-FICTION

Where Will the Library of America Go in 2022?

January 4, 2022March 17, 2022 Michael Washburn 11 Comments Charles McGrath, Donald Barthelme, James Purdy, Joan Didion, Library of America, Ray Bradbury, The New Yorker

After year of interesting editorial choices, the LOA faces uncharted terrain

literature

FICTION NON-FICTION

The Best Literature We Read in 2021

December 30, 2021January 4, 2022 Book and Film Globe Staff 0 Comments Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land, Dara Horn, Gary Shteyngart, George R. Stewart, Jessica Anya Blau, Katherine Angel, Mary Jane, Meghan O’Gieblyn, Nick McDonnell, Our Country Friends, People Love Dead Jews, Storm, The Council of Animals, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again

Our critics pick the books that affected them the most

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