The Felix Team’s Hot Summer Reads
The team’s summer reads weren’t exactly light and breezy.
Audiobooks, awkward skims, and hanging in there
This week in Books: audiobooks, and a goodbye to the Spring Term.
The scents in killing
Katia Zykova provides a chemical and literary perspective on the acclaimed story of a murderer.
Yellowface by R. F. Kuang hits the mark, sometimes
Book Club’s November pick: a witty take on the failings of an industry.
Combining the stanza with heritage
Our incoming Books editor discusses literature by Black British authors in a new weekly segment.
Book review: Killing Thatcher
A commentary on Rory Carroll’s investigation into the near-assassination of Margaret Thatcher.
Summer snapshots
Your Books editor documents a season full of literary travels.
Romance and politics: an unlikely pairing?
Two examples of politics and romance going hand in hand.
The Emigrants: Distant Voices, Still Lives
The narratives of several people displaced by the World Wars as a Berlin Literature Prize-winning novel
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
An exploration of real-world politics through the life of one deeply flawed man
Stone’s Fall - An Erudite Mystery
An intricate tome that will drop your jaw more than once
Terminus: A Book That Could Do Better
A book propped up by its storytelling, but weighed down by its inability to tell the story of what actually motivates its characters