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bookriot.com | S. Zainab Williams
I learned so much from the book I’m recommending today. I also had to take so many deep breaths while reading it. I wish I’d had access to and taken more classes focusing on literature from the Harlem Renaissance when I was an English major in college way back when, but the one class on African American lit that I did get to take introduced me to some of the figures in this book about the “Midwife of the Harlem Renaissance”–Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston, to name a few.
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flipboard.com | S. Zainab Williams
Just the name Ernest Hemingway conjures up ideas about some of the best and most succinct writing of all time. But you can't compare yourself to …
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2 weeks ago | 
bookriot.com | S. Zainab Williams
If you love a good mystery and books set in space, I’ve got the author for you today. I’ve read and loved both of the two novels this author has published, and a third book out this fall sounds like it’s deep in my wheelhouse as well. The book I’m recommending today is a space romp–a final heist space romp, to be specific, and boy, do I love heist fiction.
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2 weeks ago | 
bookriot.com | S. Zainab Williams
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here are the stories Today in Books readers were most interested in this week.
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bookriot.com | S. Zainab Williams
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2 weeks ago | 
bookriot.com | S. Zainab Williams
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Trump’s so-called Liberation Day arrived on April 2, planned after April Fool’s Day so it wouldn’t be mistaken for a joke.
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3 weeks ago | 
bookriot.com | S. Zainab Williams
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. …Are we doing quarterly Best Books of the Year lists now? I had to double check the date to make sure it wasn’t June when I encountered Vulture‘s Best Books of 2025 So Far.
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3 weeks ago | 
bookriot.com | S. Zainab Williams
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. I’m in the business of being annoyed by the Statlers and Waldorfs grumping about how their favorite book or author didn’t make it on a list, as if any list is capable of satisfying everyone.
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3 weeks ago | 
bookriot.com | S. Zainab Williams
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The shortlist for the 30th Women’s Prize for Fiction has been announced! The list of six features four(!) debut novelists.
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3 weeks ago | 
bookriot.com | S. Zainab Williams
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more.
