Passion & Presence
By Jupiter Berrysmith
Reflections on the Capital Love LitFest.
Do What You Fear Most: The History of the Velvet Underground
By Richie Unterberger
An illuminating account of the band that made Lou Reed famous.
The Big Easy looms large in James Lee Burke’s entertaining Dave Robicheaux series.
We Need to Talk
By Jennifer Risher
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Striking it rich doesn’t — or shouldn’t, at least — fundamentally change who you are.
Shoddy
By Hanna Rose Shell
The fascinating story of how a respectable textile product became synonymous with all things inferior.
Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination
By Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
An intelligent, impassioned ode to the power of words.
New collections to make life more lyrical.
The Dog of Tithwal: Stories
By Saadat Hasan Manto; translated by Khalid Hasan and Aatish Taseer
A charged, sober collection about life in post-partition India and Pakistan.
Or, where that monster under my bed probably came from.
Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy
By Nathaniel Philbrick
Authorial intrusions mar this otherwise rollicking history.
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 she said.
