Sabrina
by Nick Drnaso
To say, as Zadie Smith has, that Sabrina is "the best book I have read about our current moment" makes our current moment seem quite grim. (Understandably.) A story of random murder, conspiracy theory... (Tom)
The New Family Cookbook
by America's Test Kitchen
Sale Book of the Week The New Family Cookbook by America's Test Kitchen In our kitchen we have a shelf for our most-used cookbooks. And on this shelf there is one cookbook that is (clearly) the most u... (Tom)
Writers as Readers
by now, there are few parts of the literary ecosystem I like better than the reclamation of lost classics, and for forty years, the UK's Virago Modern Classics has been doing just that for women writers in particular, with a list of authors that's thrillingly packed with masters of fiction. This lovely volume (which we've recently brought in from the UK) collects forty introductions to those editions, and they make a kind of conversation, of writers writing about the writers they love. (In a few cases, a writer who celebrates one author is then celebrated herself: Angela Carter introduces Charlotte Brontë, then Carmen Callil introduces Carter.) I usually try not to read an introduction before I read the book itself, but this is something else entirely: forty doors opening on writers familiar to me (Zora Neale Hurston, Edith Wharton) and unfamiliar (Antonia White, Bessie Head). I could wander these halls for quite some time. —Tom
New Book About Old Books of the Week Writers as Readers: A Celebration of Virago Modern Classics As regular readers may know by now, there are few parts of the literary ecosystem I like better than th... (Tom)