When You’re Craving Oddities: 5 Books You May Have <br>Missed in July

When You’re Craving Oddities: 5 Books You May Have
Missed in July

Bethanne Patrick Recommends Deirdre Sinnott,
Jeffrey Ford, and Others

By Bethanne Patrick | August 18, 2021

Defne Suman Reads from <em>The Silence of Scheherazade</em>

Defne Suman Reads from The Silence of Scheherazade

From Damian Barr’s Literary Salon Podcast

By Damian Barr's Literary Salon | August 18, 2021

Shelby Cole on Climate Grief and Indigenous Land and Water Stewardship

Shelby Cole on Climate Grief and Indigenous Land and Water Stewardship

This Week from the Reading Women Podcast

By Reading Women | August 18, 2021

On Robin McKinley’s Fantasies and the Books That Are “Just Yours”

On Robin McKinley’s Fantasies and the Books That Are “Just Yours”

This Week on the NewberyTart Podcast

By NewberyTart | August 18, 2021

Christopher Gray on Hustling to the Top... with an Altruistic Mindset

Christopher Gray on Hustling to the Top... with an Altruistic Mindset

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 18, 2021

<em>The Ones We're Meant to Find</em> by Joan He, Read by Nancy Wu

The Ones We're Meant to Find by Joan He, Read by Nancy Wu

An Intense and Memorable YA Listen

By Behind the Mic | August 18, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • This Is Where the Serpent Lives
  • Lost Lambs
  • Winter: The Story of a Season
  • The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
  • The Hitch
  • Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China

Grendel at 50: How John Gardner’s Finest Novel Undermines His Ideas About Moral Fiction

By Andrew DeYoung | August 17, 2021

Why Does Lionel Messi Ignore the Ball for the First Five Minutes of a Match?

By Simon Kuper | August 17, 2021

The Ugliness of Comic Sans Has a Practical Use

By Jonah Lehrer | August 17, 2021

One in a Million: Where Were You When You Heard that Aaliyah Died?

One in a Million: Where Were You When You Heard that Aaliyah Died?

Kathy Iandoli on the Impact of Generational Celebrity Deaths

By Kathy Iandoli | August 17, 2021

How Surrendering to Communal Time Can Make Us All Happier

How Surrendering to Communal Time Can Make Us All Happier

Oliver Burkeman on the Social Benefits of Nationwide Vacation

By Oliver Burkeman | August 17, 2021

The Beautiful Impossibility of the World’s Largest Pearl

The Beautiful Impossibility of the World’s Largest Pearl

Bill François on the Natural Treasures of the Oyster

By Bill François | August 17, 2021

Myriam Gurba Performs Her Story “Writing Ourselves Into Bed”

Myriam Gurba Performs Her Story “Writing Ourselves Into Bed”

On Storybound, Our Radio-Theater Podcast

By Storybound | August 17, 2021

Jonah Lehrer on the Science of Mystery

Jonah Lehrer on the Science of Mystery

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 17, 2021

My Shadow Book: On Consciously—or Unconsciously—Immortalizing Ex-Partners in Literary Fiction

My Shadow Book: On Consciously—or Unconsciously—Immortalizing Ex-Partners in Literary Fiction

Andrew Palmer Struggles with the Idea of Creating Characters (Partly) Based on an Ex

By Andrew Palmer | August 17, 2021

WATCH: Tod Goldberg on Being Ruled By Your Own Game

WATCH: Tod Goldberg on Being Ruled By Your Own Game

From the New Video Series Authors in the Tent, Hosted by Ona Russell

By The Virtual Book Channel | August 17, 2021

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