Maya Chung

1 week ago | theatlantic.com | Maya Chung

A new subgenre of literature explores what’s uncovered when you take away someone’s public-facing persona. This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. If someone had no relationships—no colleagues to appease, no parents to make proud, no lovers to impress—how might they behave? With those interactions removed, would you be able to glimpse, as Jordan Kisner wrote in our May issue, an “authentic, independent self”?

1 month ago | theatlantic.com | Maya Chung

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Not long after COVID lockdowns began in the U.S. five years ago this week, many readers and writers started to wonder, with a mix of trepidation and curiosity, what the literature about the time period would look like. Half a decade on, we now have at least a small body of work that takes on the pandemic.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Maya Chung

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Not long after COVID lockdowns began in the U.S. five years ago this week, many readers and writers started to wonder, with a mix of trepidation and curiosity, what the literature about the time period would look like. Half a decade on, we now have at least a small body of work that takes on the pandemic.

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Maya Chung

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. A Florida retirement community might be an unexpected setting for a novel written by a Finnish Swedish children’s book author. But in 1976, Tove Jansson, who is best-known for her whimsical hippo-esque characters, the Moomins, published an adult novel set in the fictional Berkeley Arms in Florida.

2 months ago | theatlantic.com | Maya Chung

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. A Florida retirement community might be an unexpected setting for a novel written by a Finnish Swedish children’s book author. But in 1976, Tove Jansson, who is best-known for her whimsical hippo-esque characters, the Moomins, published an adult novel set in the fictional Berkeley Arms in Florida.