Outside: while some of us spent our holidays with prize-winning novels and essay collections, others turned to screen adaptations of beloved books. Here’s everything that kept us entertained in the final days of 2020. What We Read I just read Girl, Woman, Other, by Bernardine Evaristo, and I can’t recommend it enough. The novel won the Booker Prize in 2019, making Evaristo the first Black woman to have received the honor. Her writing is engaging and singular: there’s little punctuation, and she often breaks up her sentences like poems. The novel focuses on 12 characters, primarily Black British women, some of whom are clearly connected to others and some seemingly peripheral. Evaristo crafts a narrative that spans generations, with each chapter following the life of a different character. Despite the unique structure and style, it’s approachable and compelling—I finished all 450-plus pages in five days. —Abbie Barronian, associate editor