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Cave Mountain: A Disappearance and a Reckoning in the Ozarks
by Benjam
I didn't know where this book was headed when I started, and I sure didn't expect where it would end up. Hale grew up in Colorado, but his family is from, and has largely remained, in the steep hills...

The Queen's Gambit
by Walter Tevis
As many people discover the story of Tevis's The Queen's Gambit through the new Netflix series, I would like to note, somewhat smugly, that Tevis's novel was our very first Phinney by Post selection,...

The Snooty Bookshop: Fifty Literary Postcards
by Tom Gauld
This could be a book—it's shaped like one, and it has a title and an author—but once you start taking the postcards out to mail to your friends, who will appreciate Gauld's wry cartoon commentaries on...

Van Gogh: The Life
by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
My goodness. This week, when a customer's special order of two copies of Naifeh and Smith's recent biography of the doomed painter arrived, I was almost overcome by a physical desire to abandon the r...

Your Face in Mine
by Jess Row
Your Face in Mine begins with the narrator's encounter with an old friend transformed: a white man who has become, through surgery and chemistry, a black man. It's the old Black Like Me premise, but R...