City Folk and Country Folk
by Sofia Khvoshchinskaya
MADE-UP
A while ago I was calling Turgenev the Russian Jane Austen—now I've discovered that the country has its own Brontë sisters! Like the British writers, the Khvoshchinskaya sisters were poor but educated... (Liz)
The Wolf, the Duck & the Mouse
by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Jon Klassen
"You'd be surprised what you find inside a wolf," says the duck. Indeed! The mouse, swallowed, is surprised, and you will be too, and also amused. Barnett and Klassen are prolific kid's-book geniuses,... (Tom)
We Were Eight Years in Power
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
TRUE
As impressive and conversation-changing as Coates's last book, Between the World and Me, was, it felt like part of a larger project, incomplete without his earlier memoir, The Beautiful Struggle, and... (Tom)
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