A recap of the books we’ve spotlighted in the past few days.
How to Dodge a Cannonball
By Dennard Dayle
This rollicking bildungsroman unfolds amid the Civil War.
A look at what’s steaming up the shelves this month.
Authors on Audio: A Conversation with Michael Imperioli
By Stephen Usery
An occasional series in which writers speak for themselves.
The Exiles: A Novel
By Christina Baker Kline
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A gripping tale of women cast out from society and banished to an 1800s Tasmanian penal colony.
Need a break from doom-scrolling Twitter or compulsively refreshing FiveThirtyEight? So do we!
What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era
By Carlos Lozada
The author has been doing a LOT of reading.
We came, we read, we gushed. Here’s a recap of the titles that left us especially warm and swoony last month.
We here at the Independent love every piece we run. There are no winners or losers. But all kidding aside, here are October’s winners.
Homeland Elegies: A Novel
By Ayad Akhtar
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This brilliant work of autofiction takes a gimlet-eyed look at the American Dream.
Ahab’s Rolling Sea
By Richard J. King
A fascinating, timely exploration of Melville's (and our) watery world.
