Beyond The Book
Sneak Preview: Summer 2026

A baker’s dozen promising new titles.

    Questions 27 & 28: A Novel

    Book Review

    Questions 27 & 28: A Novel

    By Karen Tei Yamashita

    The fallout from Japanese internment camps ripples across decades.

    To See Beyond: Essays

    Book Review

    To See Beyond: Essays

    By Anna Badkhen

    An expansive consideration of who we are and what we stand to lose.

    Book Review

    Blackass: A Novel

    By A. Igoni Barrett

    Blackass: A Novel

    A "complex depiction of the buffeting forces of Nigerian life and the allure of dreams."

    Feature

    The Washington Writers Conference Presents Dina Gold

    Meet one of the renowned participants in Books Alive! 2016

    Book Review

    Something Will Happen, You’ll See

    By Christos Ikonomou; translated by Karen Emmerich

    Something Will Happen, You’ll See

    Unrelentingly dark — though compassionately rendered — tales of Greece's financial crisis

    Beyond The Book

    Book Review

    Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War

    A jarring look at the potentially devastating battles happening online

    Beyond The Book

    Bedtime Stories: February 2016

    What do book lovers have queued up on their nightstands and ready to read before lights-out? We asked a couple of them, and here’s what they said.

    Book Review

    The Fever of 1721: The Epidemic that Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics

    How a devastating smallpox outbreak forever changed people, healthcare, and journalism

    Book Review

    And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East

    "An unexpected, suspenseful page-turner."