Newsletter #418

Gabby, decked out in a tutu, cape, crown, and spatula, proclaims it's time for a parade. And whatever Gabby says, people tend to listen. She and her gramma make their way down the city street, adding... (Haley)

The Solo-Millers are complacently wealthy, inevitably good-looking, and eccentrically old-fashioned. Are they paragons of good behavior and high standards? Or are they smug monsters? And is Polly, the... (Tom)

The phrase that kept coming to mind as I read Lady X was “incandescent female rage.” Set in 1977 and 2024, the ingrained sexism inherent in both times sets the stage for women taking matters into thei... (Doree)

For everyone waiting for Bonnie Garmus’s follow-up to her brilliant Lessons in Chemistry in 2022, it’s finally here. Peck & Peck is a New York poetry journal run by twin brothers, who also hate ea... (Doree)

This is my favorite book of 2026, and I doubt that anything I read in the next three months will knock it off the tippy top of my yearly top ten list. I feel like this book was written for me—and anyo... (Liz)