Jun
19
Here are the books, with Commentary that I’ve read and most admired in recent months, November 2023-May 2024. The commentary at the end of this post is “The Pleasure of Honoring and Rereading a Favorite Author.”
The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunezi, fiction
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America by Hea…
Nov
02
Here are the books I’ve read and most admired in recent months, March-October 2023. The Commentary at the end of the post is: "In Praise of Books, a Bookstore, and a Splendid Bookseller".
This Other Eden by Paul Harding, fiction
The Best of It. New and Selected Poems by Kay Ryan, poems.
A Grief Observed by C.…
Mar
17
Here are the books, with Commentary, I’ve read and most admired in recent months, July 2022-February 2023. The Commentary at the end of this post is “Taking Action for Housing-Insecure Students.”
Hearts Touched With Fire: How Great Leaders Are Made by David Gergen, nonfiction,
Coventry by Rachel Cusk, es…
Jul
14
Here are the books, with Commentary, I’ve read and most admired in recent months, January 22–June 2022. The Commentary at the end of this post is on book banning.
Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and The Trials of American Democracy by Jamie Raskin, memoir, history
The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves U…
Jan
19
Here are the books, with Commentary, I’ve read and most admired in recent months, June 2021–December 2021.
Home Made: A Story of Grief, Groceries, Showing Up—And What We Make When We Make Dinner by Liz Hauck, memoir
How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smit…