The Times' newsletter head recommends six Palestinian memoirs, plus book awards by the numbers, Hollywood exposés and more in the Book Club Newsletter
Good morning, and welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Boris Kachka, the books editor at the Los Angeles Times. I’m thinking about how important it is right now for people to be able to imagine the lives of others. Fortunately, there is a centuries-old technology for that. Someone else who’s been thinking about this for a long time is Karim Doumar, the Times’ head of newsletters. This week, I asked if he would write about a particular reading passion of his — Palestinian memoirs.
” As Thomson writes: “I doubt there is any such thing as an antiwar film. In the dark, whatever the official motive or the orders, we go to war for excitement.” Romantasy’s big midnight moment. If you haven’t yet heard of Rebecca Yarros, your days in the dark are numbered. BookTok’s favorite writer of “romantasy” scored a giant bestseller with “Fourth Wing” in April, and Tuesday’s release of its followup, “Iron Flame,” occasioned midnight parties unlike anything since Harry Potter's heyday.
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