Frieda’s Song
By Ellen Prentiss Campbell
A moving tale about the fine line between sanity and madness.
A peek at what’s on tap in the Independent this week.
The Window Seat
By Aminatta Forna
This timely essay collection reminds us that we’re all citizens of the world.
A recap of the books we’ve spotlighted in the past few days.
Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration
By Laura J. Martin
Is there still time to shape a more natural future?
Sleepwalk: A Novel
By Dan Chaon
In a near-future dystopia, a contract killer learns he may have fathered multiple children.
Into the Inferno: A Photographer’s Journey through California’s Megafires and Fallout
By Stuart Palley
Holding the line against unrelenting flames.
What do book lovers have queued up on their nightstands and ready to read before lights-out? We asked one of them, and here’s what he said.
The Gaithersburg Book Festival is back in person this Saturday!
Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free
By Sarah Weinman
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A page-turning saga of true crime and false narratives.
An Interview with Genevieve Grabman
By Diana Friedman
The DC attorney talks reproductive freedom, high-risk pregnancy, and life after Roe.
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