‘Notes on a Silencing’ is a ghastly account, beautifully told, of a teenage girl learning that people in power often value reputation above all else.
Hearing Laymon’s words in his own voice was even more affecting than reading them on the page.
The Vapors is David Hill’s true crime narrative of Hot Springs, Arkansas, arguably America’s gambling capital until it all came crashing down in the mid-1960s.
Author Ben Widdicombe shares lessons about the world’s wealthiest people gleaned from working at three of the biggest outlets in gossip.
In the hilarious and intimate The Hungover Games, Sophie Heawood chronicles her bumpy journey from woman-about-town to single parent.
Leila Slimani collects Moroccan women’s testimonies, woven together with her own reflections on Morocco’s social attitudes toward sex, in Sex and Lies.
Betsy Bonner explores her sister’s unsettling life and death with laser-sharp prose in The Book of Atlantis Black.
How did brooding, solitary private eye character come to rule the crime scene? Susanna Lee sheds light on the mystery.
I find Rebecca Gibel’s narration to be hypnotic in its dryness, allowing me to reprioritize and realign where I give my focus.
For readers interested in thinking critically about American history, this is a good start.
Judith Martin’s arch, acid wit laces every lesson on behaving with propriety in a culture where monstrous jerks are, more than ever, on parade and in power.
Samantha Irby is already funny on the page, but she has a special gift for comedic delivery, and her narration adds even more laughs.
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