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.
An occasional series in which writers speak for themselves.
Realigners: Partisan Hacks, Political Visionaries, and the Struggle to Rule American Democracy
By Timothy Shenk
Nice country you’ve got there. Be a shame if something happened to it.
An Interview with Anne-Marie Oomen
By Patricia Ann McNair
The memoirist opens up about grief, the pandemic, and saying goodbye to her complicated mother.
Canción
By Eduardo Halfon; translated by Lisa Dillman and Daniel Hahn
This uneven novella boasts compelling scenes but scant emotional resonance.
Castaway Mountain
By Saumya Roy
This powerful real-life tale from India reads like fiction.
Bonhoeffer’s America
By Joel Looper
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The German theologian came to New York twice. What he saw appalled him.
An engaging natural (and enraging colonial) history from Down Under.
We came, we read, we gushed. Here’s a recap of the titles that left us especially warm and swoony last month.
