For The Book Obsessed
[ad_1] Many parents raise their children emphasizing the “goodness” and “badness” of everything from food to language to sex. The good-versus-bad mindset can easily foster adolescent periods wrought with secrecy and confusion, distrust and resentment. Certain baby boomers especially love that kind of thing. Sara Faith Alterman details in her memoir, Let’s Never Talk about … Read more
[ad_1] This year has been… hard. I don’t believe in fully “escaping” from what’s going on in the world because it’s important to tune in and be a part of the conversation but, that said, I do think sometimes we all need a recharge—a short time to disconnect so we can power back up again. … Read more
[ad_1] My novel, Atomic Love, features a young woman ahead of her era, a female physicist during WWII, when few women were scientists. Working on the Manhattan project, she helps to create the first atomic reaction. I’m happy to recommend some electrifying historical novels about other women ahead of their times. Featured image: Photo by … Read more
[ad_1] Over the past few months, most of us have felt our plans for the future slip out of reach. Perhaps, like me, you too have been gripped by anxiety over what the future holds. This sense of uncertainty underpins everything in Life Events, the latest book from Karolina Waclawiak. The book follows Evelyn, a … Read more
[ad_1] Taylor Swift dropped her new album Folklore last night and not to be dramatic but we’ve had this cottagecore goodness on repeat ever since. And we have been working fast to get you your ULTIMATE Folklore book match! Track: The No 1 Book Match: Lovely War “But it would have been fun, if you would … Read more
[ad_1] Irish-Canadian writer Emma Donoghue’s new novel, The Pull of The Stars, is destined to be a hit not just because of Donoghue’s characteristically stellar storytelling, as evidenced in previous bestsellers like Room (2010) and The Wonder (2016), but also because of its astonishingly prescient subject matter: the novel is about the 1918 Great Flu … Read more
[ad_1] Lindsay Ellis’s new book, Axiom’s End, is an ambitious work of science fiction. Not content to take the route of alternate history, or tell an action-packed “First Contact” tale, Ellis centers her story on the human and inhuman. The driving question of the novel is how we make sense of what we don’t understand. … Read more
[ad_1] “Yellow and the Perception of Reality” by Maureen McHugh is a science fiction story about a woman who delves into the mystery of why and how her twin sister, a physicist, has been brain damaged in a lab accident in which two of her colleagues died. I wear yellow when I go … Read more
[ad_1] The narrator of Catherine Lacey’s new novel Pew often sleeps in churches, not because they are in search of “grace or deliverance,” but because “a church is also a building, often a sturdy building, and it can keep the outside far from you and when the outside is far enough from you, that is … Read more
[ad_1] This month I had the pleasure of speaking with Susan Barba, a poet and senior editor at New York Review Books. Her latest collection, geode, is a gorgeous meditation on humanity’s relation to the earth in a time of climate change. In our interview, we discuss what inspired the collection, her thoughts on what poetry … Read more