A recap of the books we’ve spotlighted in the past few days.
Putin’s Sledgehammer
By Candace Rondeaux
An engrossing look at Yevgeny Prighozin’s soldiers-for-hire.
Centroeuropa
By Vicente Luis Mora; translated by Rahul Bery
A quirky fairytale replete with a witch, a giant, and lots of corpses.
Sisters of the Great War
By Suzanne Feldman
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Two women prove their mettle amid the carnage of WWI.
Cursed Bunny: Stories
By Bora Chung; translated by Anton Hur
These fractured fairytales mirror a perpetually broken society.
The literary world is shrinking. Help us push back.
The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence, Injustice, and the American City
By Nicholas Dawidoff
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The price of living on the wrong side of the tracks.
New collections to make life more lyrical.
8 Yuletide Reads to Make the Season Bookish & Bright
By Jen Michalski
From haunting to heartwarming, there’s something here for everyone!
The Village Idiot: A Novel
By Steve Stern
A mad genius makes art — and provokes his patrons — in pre-WWII France.
An occasional series in which writers speak for themselves.
