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February 12, 2025

Dear BookBrowsers,

In this issue, we cover Gliff, acclaimed author Ali Smith's latest. Set in an impressionistically drawn dystopia traversed by two children, it explores language, authoritarianism, and meaning. Tao Leigh Goffe's Dark Laboratory, another book about human resistance to harmful systems, counters common narratives by connecting the climate crisis to colonial pasts.

We also feature the most recent English translation of work by 2024 Nobel winner Han Kang. Through the vivid storymore

January 29, 2025

Dear BookBrowsers,

In this issue, we detour into the past. Instead of our usual new hardcovers, you'll find pre-2000 gems handpicked by our reviewers.

It's striking how relevant some of these books are to our current moment, and how applicable they could be to our future. Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac (1949) is a seminal work of environmental writing that foresaw climate disaster. The Breakthrough (1966), a science fiction story by Daphne du Maurier (of Rebecca fame), raises pointsmore

January 15, 2025

Dear BookBrowsers,

Happy 2025! In this issue, we kick off the year's reading with standout novels featuring richly imagined versions of our world. In Nnedi Okorafor's Death of the Author, a struggling writer finds success in penning a sci-fi story about a post-apocalyptic Earth — our accompanying Beyond the Book article explores other fascinating examples of "novels within novels." The Capital of Dreams by Heather O'Neill tells the tale of a teenage girl swept up in an attack on the fictionalmore

December 04, 2024

Dear BookBrowsers,

As we near the end of 2024, we feature the Top 20 Books of the Year chosen by our subscribers, and announce our Award Winners. Plus, our reviewers cover four books voted in by write-in nomination especially for this issue. We're grateful to everyone who participated for contributing to a fantastic annual roundup.

The winner of our Top Debut award is Eve J. Chung's sweeping Daughters of Shandong, which follows a mother and her daughters escaping from China to Taiwan duringmore

November 20, 2024

Dear BookBrowsers,

In our second-to-last issue of the year, we feature recent books from acclaimed authors that paint vivid pictures of lives in retrospect. Alan Hollinghurst's Our Evenings spans a British actor's memories from the 1960s to the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and André Aciman's Roman Year recounts a period spent in Rome as a young adult after his Jewish family was exiled from Egypt. Weike Wang's upcoming Rental House also travels through time, examining American societymore

November 06, 2024

Dear BookBrowsers,

In this issue, we bring you the latest from acclaimed author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates. The Message reflects on historical narratives and their meaning as the reader travels alongside Coates through Senegal, South Carolina, and the Middle East. Our accompanying Beyond the Book article presents works of art and writing that tell stories of ordinary Palestinian life.

Other excellent new nonfiction includes My Good Bright Wolf, a poetic memoir in which award-winningmore

October 16, 2024

Dear BookBrowsers,

In this issue, we catch up with the latest in the universe of Elizabeth Strout. Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, Bob Burgess, the town of Crosby, Maine, and some minor characters from previous books all have parts to play in the beautifully orchestrated Tell Me Everything.

Another new contemporary work of fiction by an old hand is Charles Baxter's Blood Test, a delightful satirical take on modern for-profit healthcare in which a mild-mannered Midwestern dad is informed by amore

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