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Sara B. Franklin
Bear It Somehow: Our Year in Family Reading
Sara B. Franklin on Telling the Truth (and Making It Bearable)
By
Sara B. Franklin
| December 11, 2024
When Judith Jones Brought Sylvia Plath and Julia Child to American Bookshelves
Sara B. Franklin on the Legendary Editor’s Mentorship of Two Iconic Authors
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Sara B. Franklin
| May 28, 2024
My Year in Reading Children’s Books
Sara B. Franklin Recommends Cecilia Ruiz, Steve McCarthy, and Many More
By
Sara B. Franklin
| December 6, 2023
Seasons of Change: The Children’s Books That Helped Us Get Through the Year
Sara B. Franklin on the Reading That Mattered Most to Her Family
By
Sara B. Franklin
| December 7, 2022
“To Learn From the Natural World.” On Ada Limón’s Brilliant Poetic Project
Sara Franklin Talks to the Author of
The Hurting Kind
By
Sara B. Franklin
| May 10, 2022
What
Julia
—HBO’s New Julia Child Series—Gets Terribly Wrong About Legendary Editor Judith Jones
Sara Franklin on the Stark Boundaries Between Myth and Reality
By
Sara B. Franklin
| April 27, 2022
Best Reviewed
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The Best Children’s Books in Our Long Year of Pandemic Reading
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Ross Gay Demands Our Attention (in a Pandemic or Otherwise)
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What 2020 Children’s Book Roundups Are Missing
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Sara B. Franklin
| December 21, 2020
Delight is Essential: On Reading Ross Gay in Terrible Times
Sara Franklin on the Magic of Ross Gay in Terrible Times
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Sara B. Franklin
| June 18, 2020
How Judith Jones Radically Transformed American Food Writing
Sara B. Franklin on the Legendary Editor
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Sara B. Franklin
| March 10, 2020
The Best Fiction in Translation of Fall 2025
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by
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“Whoever Wrote this Episode Should Die": "Galaxy Quest" Is Personal, and it's Personal to Me
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Olivia Rutigliano
Breaking In: A Field Guide to Heist Plot Types
November 21, 2025
by
Norman Birnbach and Tilia Klebenov Jacobs
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"The stories in her hypnotic collection em The Pelican Child em are painterly and provocative…"
