Literature

What We Talk About When We Talk About Books

Eye-opening and filled with delightful nuggets of truth, What We Talk About When We Talk About Books offers a hopeful glimpse into an essential reading future.

12 personal essays brimming with equal parts hope and fury, joy and pain.

A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing

By DaMaris B. Hill

Into the Jungle

By Katherine Rundell, Illustrated by Kristjana S. Williams

Sing a Song of Seasons

Edited by Fiona Waters, Illustrated by Frann Preston-Gannon

A Sidecar Named Desire

By Monte Beauchamp, Illustrated by Greg Clarke

Astounding

By Alec Nevala-Lee

Author

By Beowulf Sheehan

Decorating a Room of One’s Own

By Susan Harlan, Illustrated by Becca Stadtlander

Bibliophile

By Jane Mount

The Anna Karenina Fix

By Viv Groskop

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