Most Anticipated Books: Second Half of 2026
A mix of fiction and nonfiction for the second half of 2026: prison blues, forbidden forests, a Veracruz con job, and the long fight over who counts as equal.
Armchair Euro Fakeation: A European Reading List for Summer 2026
Twenty books of summer spanning Hungary, Ireland, the Calabrian coast, a Swiss mental institution, wartime Berlin, and a crumbling Tuscan villa. The Europe that didn't make the brochure.
Bookish Wishes: A Midsommar's Night Read
Ten books I'd love to own, summer edition: books about food, writing, the Dust Bowl, memoirs, with a little snarky satire, of course.
Quick Lit Short and Sweet Reviews, April 2026
Short reviews of six books I read over the last month and a half — Sisters in Yellow, Last Night in Brooklyn, The Witch, Vigil, How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder, and Down Time.
Books About the Southwest: History, Fiction, and the Stories We Were Never Told
The American Southwest has been mythologized so thoroughly and for so long that the myth has become almost impossible to see around. These books are a corrective.
New-to-me Authors Read in 2025
A Top Ten Tuesday list of new-to-me authors I read in 2025, plus the real question underneath: was I pulled in by the author, the premise, or the hype, and did the book deliver?
Books I Wish I Could Read Again for the First Time
A list of books I'd love to read again for the first time, that didn’t just entertain me, but woke something up too.
Goals for 2026 & Defensive Book Quoting
This year I'm setting reading and book goals while trying to stay out of the performance trap.
Quick Lit: Short and Sweet Reviews — January 2026
A grumpy bookseller novel, Lydia Millet’s razor-sharp short stories, Joy Harjo as the wise auntie we all need, and a strange new Roxane Gay–imprint release about grief, obsession, and the soul of a dog.