Big news: we already found your your summer 2022 reading pick. Lara Williams, the author behind Supper Club and A Selfie as Big as the Ritz, is releasing a riveting new story on April 26, 2022 called The Odyssey, from new independent publisher Zando. The book follows a young woman named Ingrid, who works onboard […]

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Alexandra Jacobs Mel Brooks has been responsible for so much in the American comedic canon, for so long, it sometimes seems he is, if not 2,000 years old like one of his most indelible characters, maybe 200. He’s actually […]

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Negar Azimi IN CASE OF EMERGENCYBy Mahsa MohebaliTranslated by Mariam Rahmani Shadi, a young opium addict, is angling for her next hit. It’s the early 2000s, an earthquake has struck Tehran and it’s unclear if the trembling inside her […]

Have yourself a Mary little Xmas: And garnish with some Rick Stein, Gordon Ramsay, James Martin and Ottolenghi… Constance Craig Smith selects the year’s best cookery books Constance Craig Smith rounded up a selection of this year’s best cookery books Mary Berry shares recipes for 120 dishes for family suppers in Love To Cook  Gordon […]

By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. There’s enough animosity, jealousy, score-settling and killing gossip in “Tinderbox,” James Andrew Miller’s mountainous new oral history of HBO, to fill an Elizabethan drama. Yet the book’s tone is largely fond. The people who created HBO made […]

By Sebastian Modak Welcome to the golden age of audiobooks. Maybe it’s because podcasts have given us an insatiable thirst for audio storytelling; or because companies like Audible and Libro.fm have made it so easy to amass digital listening libraries. Whatever the reason, we have finally reached an understanding that no, listening to a book […]

“Our Journey Together” includes more than 300 photographs, along with captions written by the former president. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By Elizabeth A. Harris and Alexandra Alter Donald J. Trump is publishing a book of photographs […]

From soul food on Sundays and tamales on Christmas Eve to wu gok on Dumpling Day. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By Jennifer Krauss TOMATOES FOR NEELAWritten by Padma LakshmiIllustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal A twinkly-eyed Indian American […]