Book PostReview: Sarah Chayes on Wade DavisIn an excerpt from her review in Book Post, Sarah Chayes follows Wade Davis as he meanders down the history of Colombia’s Magdalena River.4 min read·Dec 1, 2020----
Book PostReview: Sarah Chayes on Amaryllis FoxIn an excerpt from her review for Book Post, Sarah Chayes shares what troubled her about Amaryllis Fox’s new memoir.3 min read·Jan 31, 2020----
Book PostReview: Àlvaro Enrigue on Argentina’s Roque LarraquyDuring the late fall of 1987, in the years in which the new Argentine democracy was being reshaped after a decade of brutal right-wing…4 min read·Oct 1, 2019----
Book PostDiary: On the Occasion of His Birthday, Novelist César Aira Makes a PlanI used to write with the sole aim of producing work of high quality: good novels, better than others, etc. The reasons for wanting to do…3 min read·Sep 24, 2019----
Book PostNotebook: DIY BooksOn April 24, 2019, at 9 AM, the owner of the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge powered up the above Rube Goldberg device, and kept it running…4 min read·Sep 16, 2019----
Book PostDiary: Lucy Ellmann, On Not Going Into BookstoresI know how impossibly brave it is to run a bookstore in this rudderless, readerless age. I applaud people for persisting with it…4 min read·Sep 8, 2019----
Book PostDiary: Octavio Solis, Saturdays in JuárezListen to that. That’s Juárez you hear. That is where we are once a month on Saturdays. Riding along la Avenida de las Américas with that…4 min read·Sep 4, 2019----
Book PostReview: Joy Williams on Richard Powers’ “The Overstory”The novel concerns itself with our human drama — it always has. The intrigues, the misunderstandings, the passions and illusions. The…3 min read·Aug 26, 2019----
Book PostDiary: Meghan O’Geiblyn, on Writing the MidwestThe essayist Meghan O’Gieblyn grew up outside of Detroit. She reflects on how the Midwest became her subject even as she tried to leave it…4 min read·Aug 19, 2019----
Book PostDiary: John Moran, Reading Florida, Finding FlanneryFlorida is having a moment: the twenty-first century. Entering the last century as the least populated southern state, Florida’s debutante…3 min read·Aug 5, 2019----