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Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers
By Emma Smith
An elegant look at literature’s transformative power.
Novelist as a Vocation
By Haruki Murakami; translated by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen
A master offers insight into his craft.
How to Live. What to Do.
By Josh Cohen
The great books have long been lighting the way.
Rip Van Winkle’s Republic: Washington Irving in History and Memory
Edited by Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg
Appraising a 19th-century master through a 21st-century lens.
Blurb Your Enthusiasm: An A-Z of Literary Persuasion
By Louise Willder
A congenial consideration of the words that lure us inside the covers.
The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators
By Martin Edwards
Whodunit fans should dive into this broad, if not deep, informative pool.
Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
By Melissa Febos
There’s strength in telling your own story.
The Artful Dickens
By John Mullan
An entertaining, close examination of how the iconic 19th-century author plied his trade.
