The Ultimate Summer 2021 Reading List

The Ultimate Summer 2021 Reading List

All the Big Books From All the Big Lists

By Emily Temple | June 10, 2021

How Harold Pinter Revolutionized the Cinematic Period Piece

How Harold Pinter Revolutionized the Cinematic Period Piece

Adam Scovell on One of the Playwright’s Many Legacies

By Adam Scovell | June 10, 2021

How Audre Lorde’s Genre-Blurring <em>Zami</em> Spoke My Truth Into Existence

How Audre Lorde’s Genre-Blurring Zami Spoke My Truth Into Existence

Jamika Ajalon on Biomythography, Friendships, and Queer Identity

By Jamika Ajalon | June 10, 2021

Reading Books About... People Reading Books?

Reading Books About... People Reading Books?

Alice Jolly Recommends Biblio-Memoirs by Nina Sankovitch, Andy Miller, Jenn Shapland, and More

By Alice Jolly | June 10, 2021

Katherine Heiny on Letting the Character Get What She Wants... in a Roundabout Way

Katherine Heiny on Letting the Character Get What She Wants... in a Roundabout Way

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | June 10, 2021

On the Etymology and Reverberating Human History of the Color Green

On the Etymology and Reverberating Human History of the Color Green

Gillian Osborne Considers Color Theory and William Blake’s “The Ecchoing Green”

By Gillian Osborne | June 9, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Keeper
  • The Life You Want
  • The News from Dublin: Stories
  • Kutchinsky's Egg: A Family's Story of Obsession, Love, and Loss
  • Metropolitans: New York Baseball, Class Struggle, and the People's Team
  • A Good Person

On Finding a Little Spark When Your Writing’s Lost Its Heat

By Ron Hogan | June 9, 2021

Chasing a Waking Life: On the Pains of Being an Insomniac

By Aminatta Forna | June 9, 2021

Kristen Arnett: “I Always Want to Write Something Messy. What’s the Fun of Being Clean All the Time?”

By Thresholds | June 9, 2021

On Leaving and Returning: <br>A Reading List About Home

On Leaving and Returning:
A Reading List About Home

Andy Abramowitz Recommends Anne Tyler, Rebecca Makkai, Tove Ditlevsen, and More

By Andy Abramowitz | June 9, 2021

Reading Shades of Gray in Avi’s <em>Nothing But the Truth</em>

Reading Shades of Gray in Avi’s Nothing But the Truth

This Week on the NewberyTart Podcast

By NewberyTart | June 9, 2021

More Craft Than Art: Approaching a Novel As a Carpenter Would

More Craft Than Art: Approaching a Novel As a Carpenter Would

Brian Hall on Balancing the “Two Cultures” in His Family and His Writing

By Brian Hall | June 9, 2021

“My Life is Quite Gay.” A Queer Memoir Reading List

“My Life is Quite Gay.” A Queer Memoir Reading List

John Paul Brammer on LGBTQ+ Stories That Guided
His Life and Writing

By John Paul Brammer | June 8, 2021

Private Lives, Public Faces: On What’s Revealed by Hannah Arendt’s Archives

Private Lives, Public Faces: On What’s Revealed by Hannah Arendt’s Archives

Samantha Rose Hill Considers the Importance of Marginalia in the Writing Life

By Samantha Rose Hill | June 8, 2021

The Many Fictional Afterlives of Ethel Rosenberg

The Many Fictional Afterlives of Ethel Rosenberg

Anne Sebba Reads the Rosenbergs of Plath, Doctorow, Kushner and More

By Anne Sebba | June 8, 2021

The Overwhelming Power of Beauty: Deconstructing Edith Hamilton’s <em>Mythology</em> for Modern Times

The Overwhelming Power of Beauty: Deconstructing Edith Hamilton’s Mythology for Modern Times

Kathryn Lofton on Greek and Roman Classics, Scholarship, and Religion

By Kathryn Lofton | June 8, 2021

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