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As 2021 nears an end, we asked four book critics to pick their favorites from a very fruitful year. Here are Bethanne Patrick's top five novels

As 2021 nears an end, we ask four book critics to pick their favorites from a very fruitful year. Here are Mary Ann Gwinn's top five nonfiction books

As 2021 nears the end, we ask four book critics to pick their favorites from a very fruitful year. Here are Jessica Ferri's top five.

As 2021 comes hobbling to an end, we ask four book critics to pick their favorites from a very fruitful year. Here are Mark Athitakis' top 5.

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Yan’s chilling and cerebral tale explores the complexities of obsession.

Print Thank you to Mary McNamara for her column about bullying in Hollywood [“Hey Hollywood, Stop the Bully Act,” April 13]. Bullies also exist in families, schools, neighborhoods, the military, the police and other workplaces. As a victim of bullies as a youngster and teenager, I have felt their power. Walking from school one day, an absolute stranger walking across the street called me a name. For reasons I cannot explain, I intuitively found it humorous that this stranger felt that I wa...

In My Parents, Aleksandar Hemon tells the story of his parents immigration to Canada--of the lives that were upended by the war in Bosnia and siege of Sarajevo and the new lives his parents were forced to build. As ever with his work, he portrays both the perfect, intimate details (his mothers lonely upbringing, his fathers fanatical beekeeping) and a sweeping, heartbreaking history of his native country. It is a story full of many Hemons, of course--his parents, sister, uncles, cousins--and a...

Skip to main content Currently Reading Book World: Words of wisdom or wishful thinking? The problem with new books that aim to heal us. Mark Athitakis, The Washington Post April 14, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Edited by James Crews - - - - - - The Polish poet Adam Zagajewski, who died March 21, wasnt a household name. But theres a decent chance you know one of his poems. And if you lived through 2020, you have a bone-deep understanding of the mood it evoked. In "Try to Praise the Mutilated World...

Sure, books like “The Hill We Climb,” “Poems of Healing” and “How to Heal the World” mean well, but recovery on command is tricky.