Bewilderment
Bewilderment by Richard Powers was recently released two weeks ago. With Powers’s last novel winning the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, it was sure to be big release. Sure enough, Bewilderment was selected for Oprah’s Book Club and has been shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize already. The story in Bewilderment deals with a father, …
25 Beautiful Literary Maps for Book Lovers
Literary maps hold a special place in my heart, letting us visualize fictional lands and imaginary places. This is a list of literary maps, in their delightful and beautiful cartographic splendor, from a variety of genres and books. Most of these are fictional maps showing fantastical places, but a few of them are literary versions …
Leave the World Behind
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam has been a pretty buzzy book this year, helped along by reports of it being soon to be adapted into a Netflix movie starring Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington. It’s a tense story about a family on vacation and the arrival of some strangers. Leave the World Behind …
Whereabouts
Coming soon (when available)! What to know about Whereabouts Whereabouts is set to be released on May 4th, 2021 by Knopf. It seems like a bit of an experimental project for Lahiri. She originally wrote this book in Italian, and then translated it herself into English. From an article about the book: “Feeling foreign in …
Piranesi
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke opens in a disorienting, alternate reality-type setting, with a main character who is submerged in waves in a grand house. The book then proceeds to unravel the mysteries behind this strange place over the next two hundred pages or so. If you’re into riddles and logic problems, you’ve probably come across …