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The Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies of 2021

The Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies of 2021

Featuring Tom Stoppard, Michelle Zauner, Mike Nichols, D. H. Lawrence, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and more

By Book Marks | December 7, 2021

Thwarted Passions, Private Lives: On Out-of-Control Characters in Literary Fiction

Thwarted Passions, Private Lives: On Out-of-Control Characters in Literary Fiction

Lisa Harding Recommends Her Favorite Morbidly Fascinating Narratives

By Lisa Harding | December 7, 2021

Jude Brewer Performs His Short Story “Buzzy”

Jude Brewer Performs His Short Story “Buzzy”

On Storybound, Our Radio-Theater Podcast

By Storybound | December 7, 2021

Uli Beutter Cohen on Subway Book Trends and Reading Habits

Uli Beutter Cohen on Subway Book Trends and Reading Habits

This Week on the So Many Damn Books Podcast

By So Many Damn Books | December 7, 2021

On the Complex Historical and Contemporary Terrain of African Literature

On the Complex Historical and Contemporary Terrain of African Literature

Jessica Powers Talks to Kwasi Konadu, Trevor Getz, Lizzy Attree, Wendy Urban-Mead, Holly Y. McGee, and Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu for #readingAfrica

By Literary Hub | December 7, 2021

What Propelled Vivian Maier’s Earliest New York Photographs?

What Propelled Vivian Maier’s Earliest New York Photographs?

Ann Marks on the Birth of an Artist

By Ann Marks | December 7, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Big Kiss, Bye-Bye
  • Bad Bad Girl
  • The Ten Year Affair
  • Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
  • Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
  • Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution

Revisiting Sunday in the Park with George in the Wake of Sondheim’s Death

By Lit Century | December 7, 2021

Why Ted Flanagan Wants His Readers to Be a Little Frustrated (At First)

By I'm a Writer But | December 7, 2021

Dead Dads and Crystal Balls: Readings by Rita Feinstein, Blake Levario, and Ollie Schminkey

By Micro Podcast | December 7, 2021

AudioFile’s 2021 Best Audiobooks: An Interview with Karen Chilton

AudioFile’s 2021 Best Audiobooks: An Interview with Karen Chilton

On Eartha & Kitt and the Year’s Best Memoirs

By Behind the Mic | December 7, 2021

Jessica Nordell and Emma Dabiri on Moving Beyond Racial Bias

Jessica Nordell and Emma Dabiri on Moving Beyond Racial Bias

In Conversation with Adam Rutherford at the Hay Festival Winter Weekend

By The Virtual Book Channel | December 7, 2021

How Stories Can Transcend Author, Culture, and History

How Stories Can Transcend Author, Culture, and History

Part Five of “The Worlds of Scheherazade”

By The Cosmic Library | December 7, 2021

“He Wound Up Feeling Like a Close Friend.” On Drawing the Life of Leonard Cohen

“He Wound Up Feeling Like a Close Friend.” On Drawing the Life of Leonard Cohen

Joe Ollmann Talks to Graphic Novelist Philippe Girard

By Literary Hub | December 6, 2021

When You Start an Indie Press With Your Life Partner

When You Start an Indie Press With Your Life Partner

From Hogarth to Two Dollar Radio, Beth Kephart Looks Into Literary Labors of Love

By Beth Kephart | December 6, 2021

Amitav Ghosh on the Urgency of De-centering Humans and Re-centering Land

Amitav Ghosh on the Urgency of De-centering Humans and Re-centering Land

This Week From the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | December 6, 2021

AudioFile's Best Audiobooks of 2021

AudioFile's Best Audiobooks of 2021

A Year of Literary Listening

By Book Marks | December 6, 2021

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