A look at what’s steaming up the shelves this month.
After the Fall: From the End of History to the Crisis of Democracy, How Politicians Broke Our World
By Ian Shapiro
An astute, sobering assessment of lawmakers’ blundering.
Passion & Presence
By Jupiter Berrysmith
Reflections on the Capital Love LitFest.
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Love Like Water, Love Like Fire
By Mikhail Iossel
A Soviet Jew reminisces about life in Leningrad under Communist rule.
New collections to make life more lyrical.
An occasional series in which writers speak for themselves.
Though persuasive in places, this exhaustive history overstates its case.
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The author talks publishing the first Saudi American novel, biculturalism, and the time she wore a boys' uniform to an all-girls school.
Folklorn
By Angela Mi Young Hur
A Korean American woman struggles to escape the transgenerational trauma that threatens her sanity.
Freedom
By Sebastian Junger
An engaging but disjointed exploration of the meaning and costs of liberty.
