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Las Vegas Weekly Books 1. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson Wilkerson writes really big books, both in pages and scope. The follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning The Warmth of Other Suns posits that caste, a system of societal hierarchy seen in other parts of the world, is manifested most profoundly in the treatment of Black Americans through historical and contemporary oppression. 2. A Promised Land by Barack Obama This first of a two-volume memoir reminds us that words matter, and they can be eloquent, too. Get off Twitter and savor these 768 pages slowly, becau...

Silver Screen CollectionGetty Images "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" takes on a whole new meaning in 2020. Millions are decorating their trees and hanging stockings for one, reckoning with how to spend the season in ways that won’t leave our hearts feeling two sizes too small. If you can’t be near family this year, you can recreate the experience through the pop culture you’re consuming. Time that would’ve been spent packed in an airport, then your childhood bedroom, and before a dinner table inquisition about why you don’t come home more often is now all yours. Brush up...

Every generation carries its unique touchstones and inflection points, moments individuals of a certain age carry with them forever. For those of us in the pro-Israel community who were too young to fully process the weight of the 1967 and 1973 wars, one of those moments arrived in 1991, dur… More Headlines

The Atlantic The memoirs, novels, and poetry that stood out most CHARLIE LE MAIGNAN This year has highlighted the particularities of that thing called reading. Some found books impossible to pick up; sustained attention to text on a page is hard when the world is in so much pain. Others turned to literature anew, rediscovering the ways it can refresh and inspire. Below are the titles we were most drawn to in 2020: a wide-ranging list that includes new spins on epic poems, stories about the interior lives of women, memoirs that eloquently challenged industries, and, yes, essays that made us la...

Our friends at Emirates Literature Festival share four of 2020’s top reads… As this year draws to a close, our friends at the Emirates Literature Foundation have found themselves in a reflective mood. While 2020 has been anything but kind, it has given us some phenomenal books to occupy our time as we stay apart to stay safe. Drawing from the best books of the year according to critics, as well as those that won the popular vote, here is are four books we are grateful for this year. Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell O’Farrell’s latest earned her the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction, and wi...