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Meet our new, bookish monthly column aimed at answering that age-old question: “Read anything good lately?” These recommendations will be coming from me—hello!—and a rotating cast ofstaffers along with people with bright brains who we’ve spoken to recently. As the daylight hours stretch expansively and early green buds pop like magic onto the trees, we have a sampler platter of longform investigation, luscious new fiction, and not one but two brilliant novels from the 1860s.
, “Time is the least thing we have of.” Waste it not: here are some good books with which to fill yours.by Edward Brooke-Hitching What better way to kick this off than with a book about books? This one, written by the son of an antiquarian books dealer, is viscerally delightful: get it for yourself, give it as a gift, keep it close by as a dopamine-boosting alternative to scrolling through your phone. It is a compendium of bizarre and beautiful literary endeavors, with rich photographs and diverting accompanying text.
The Madman’s Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History by Edward Brooke-Hitching
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