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The best (and worst) novels of 2021 so far In this regularly updated guide, our critics review the best of the year's fiction – and suggest a few books to avoid Eight of the best: this year's top novels The Start-Up Wife by Tahmima Anam ★★★☆☆ Tahmima Anam is best known as the award-winning writer of three novels (A Golden Age, The Good Muslim and The Bones of Grace), and less well-known as the executive director of a music technology startup called ROLI. An experience no doubt plumbed for her latest book, The Startup Wife, a tech industry-set reverse romcom in which a young Bangl...
A small Illinois town in denial comes face to face with the virus Will Englund, The Washington Post Feb. 26, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 11 1of11Main Street in Du Quoin, Ill., where a coronavirus outbreak at Fairview Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center resulted in multiple deaths last fall.Photo for The Washington Post by Whitney CurtisShow MoreShow Less 2of11At Fairview Rehabilitation and Healthcare center, nearly every resident tested positive for the coronavirus in November.Photo for The Washington Post by Whitney CurtisShow MoreShow Less 3of11 4of11Pedestrians leave a cafe on ...