A Pin to See the Peepshow
by F. Tennyson Jesse
There’s a literary True Crime wave cresting in 2022 and it is Meta: teeming with books of all types that dissect our long obsession with the genre. Centuries before Penny Dreadfuls were condemned for... (Liz)
Act One: An Autobiography
by Moss Hart
There's a reason that Act One, a massive bestseller when it came out in 1959, is still beloved by theater kids everywhere as the great Broadway memoir. Hart himself was as stage-struck as they come, a... (Tom)
The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess
by Tom Gauld
One of the best things a fairy tale can do is take a bizarre premise and make it seem natural, following wherever its strange rules lead. What would happen, for example, if a childless royal couple ha... (Tom)
When We Cease to Understand the World
by Benjamin Labatut, translated by Adrian Nathan West
In the relative quiet at the end of the year I caught up with one of the most acclaimed books of 2021 (including by James at Madison Books when it came out in October). I suspected it would be right u... (Tom)