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A Look Ahead: 7/12/26

A peek at what’s on tap this week.

    How to Lose Your Mother

    Book Review

    How to Lose Your Mother

    By Molly Jong-Fast

    Coming to terms with a famous, and famously flawed, parent.

    Feature
    Our Week in Reviews: 7/11/26

    A recap of the books we’ve spotlighted in the past few days.

      Beyond The Book

      Bedtime Stories: April 2020

      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.

      Podcast

      Authors on Audio: A Conversation with Sonia Purnell

      An occasional series in which writers speak for themselves.

      Poetry Review

      Exquisitely Evocative

      In Braided Memories, Marjorie Agosín pays homage to her great-grandmother, who escaped Nazi-dominated Vienna and made her way to Chile.

      Book Review

      Something She’s Not Telling Us: A Novel

      Secrets can be dangerous.

      Beyond The Book

      You Liked THAT Book?

      By Heidi Mastrogiovanni

      You Liked THAT Book?

      In reading, as in life, there’s no accounting for taste.

      Book Review

      The Moment of Tenderness

      By Madeleine L’Engle

      The Moment of Tenderness

      This collection of the famed author's early stories seems heartfelt, if ill-considered.

      Author Q&A

      An Interview with Sue Eisenfeld

      The writer talks history, Southern Jews, and releasing a book during a pandemic.

      Book Review

      Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today

      This part-scholarship, part-memoir debut explores the many charges leveled at unruly ladies through the ages.