Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Histoire des femmes, Révolution française, bourreau en cavale... Nos lectures de la semaine


By via Le Monde Livres : Toute l’actualité sur Le Monde.fr. | Disclosure

When book storage is limited, people get desperate. Don’t make the mistakes I did.


By Michael Dirda via Washington Post Books | Disclosure

Happy Banned Books Week


BY NOOR QASIM via NYTimes Books | Disclosure

10 books to read in October


By Bethanne Patrick via Washington Post Books | Disclosure

How ‘Rage’ Challenged Bob Woodward


BY ELIZABETH A. HARRIS via NYTimes Books | Disclosure

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Washington Post hardcover bestsellers


4 Books that Explain the U.S. Tax System


BY NOOR QASIM AND JOUMANA KHATIB via NYTimes Books | Disclosure

‘The End of the Day,’ by Bill Clegg: An Excerpt


Unknown Author via NYTimes Books | Disclosure

‘The Midnight Library,’ by Matt Haig: An Excerpt


Unknown Author via NYTimes Books | Disclosure

Marilynne Robinson’s New Book Explores Love in Segregated America


BY ELAINE SHOWALTER via NYTimes Books | Disclosure

A Woman Escapes Her Kidnapper. Will She Live Happily Ever After?


Unknown Author via NYTimes Books | Disclosure

Beyond Nature vs. Nurture, What Makes Us Ourselves?


BY ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG via NYTimes Books | Disclosure

Managing the Bedbugs, Bathroom Shortages and Big Egos at Yalta


BY JENNET CONANT via NYTimes Books | Disclosure

In ‘The Midnight Library,’ Books Offer Transport to Different Lives


BY KAREN JOY FOWLER via NYTimes Books | Disclosure

In ‘The End of the Day,’ the Past Is Knocking at the Door


BY J. RYAN STRADAL via NYTimes Books | Disclosure

Why We Let White-Collar Criminals Get Away With Their Crimes


BY JAMES B. STEWART via NYTimes Books | Disclosure

‘Bestiary’ Offers a Compendium of Creatures, and Generations


BY AMIL NIAZI via NYTimes Books | Disclosure

Is Socialism Coming to America?


BY MITCHELL COHEN via NYTimes Books | Disclosure

Mexico’s War on Its Citizens’ Bodies


BY MELISSA DEL BOSQUE via NYTimes Books | Disclosure

Monday, September 28, 2020

Angela Chen’s ‘Ace’ reveals what it means to be asexual in a society obsessed with sexuality


By Sarah Neilson via Washington Post Books | Disclosure

Phil Klay’s New Novel Is a Sobering Look at America’s Wars


BY DWIGHT GARNER via NYTimes Books | Disclosure

Our food shopping habits have human and environmental costs. ‘The Secret Life of Groceries’ adds them up.


By Mary Beth Albright via Washington Post Books | Disclosure

New in paperback: 13 September releases worth reading


By Stephanie Merry via Washington Post Books | Disclosure

For Banned Books Week, I read the country’s 10 most challenged books. The gay penguins did not corrupt me.


By Ron Charles via Washington Post Books | Disclosure

7 Takeaways From Mariah Carey’s Memoir


BY ELISABETH EGAN via NYTimes Books | Disclosure

Friday, September 25, 2020

Bandes dessinées : nos coups de cœur de la rentrée


By via Le Monde Livres : Toute l’actualité sur Le Monde.fr. | Disclosure

Sam McBratney Dies at 77; Wrote ‘Guess How Much I Love You’


BY SAM ROBERTS via NYTimes Books | Disclosure

For Comey, time has not healed a major wound


By Garrett M. Graff via Washington Post Books | Disclosure

C.I.A. Operatives in the Early Years of the Cold War


Unknown Author via NYTimes Books | Disclosure

What Are Our Book Editors Reading?


BY JOUMANA KHATIB via NYTimes Books | Disclosure

A far deeper, worthier and more interesting JFK


By Evan Thomas via Washington Post Books | Disclosure

McMaster’s memoir is heavy on history, but light on Trump


By Ben Rhodes via Washington Post Books | Disclosure

A global energy study that misses some climate change realities


By Bill McKibben via Washington Post Books | Disclosure

Killing millions from behind their desks


By Jonathan Kirsch via Washington Post Books | Disclosure

The Incredible Influence of James A. Baker III


BY SAMANTHA POWER via NYTimes Books | Disclosure

New in Paperback: ‘The Topeka School’ and ‘Brown White Black’


BY JENNIFER KRAUSS via NYTimes Books | Disclosure

Politics and Fiction and Other Letters to the Editor


Unknown Author via NYTimes Books | Disclosure

« Demain la brume », de Timothée Demeillers : grandir et mourir pour Vukovar


By via Le Monde Livres : Toute l’actualité sur Le Monde.fr. | Disclosure

« Consolation philosophique », de Vincent Delecroix : la chronique « philosophie » de Roger-Pol Droit


By via Le Monde Livres : Toute l’actualité sur Le Monde.fr. | Disclosure

A Wordless Way to Write a Novel


BY LIANA FINCK via NYTimes Books | Disclosure

The Best Thrillers of 2025

Our columnist on the books that wowed her this year. Sarah Lyall | NYTimes Books | Disclosure