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Jake Tapper imagines what would happen if Evel Knievel ran for president

The CNN anchor’s third novel, “All the Demons Are Here,” is a thriller set in 1977.
By Sophia Nguyen

Drake joins the pop-star poetry struggle

By Sophia Nguyen
Review

Coming of age in Warhol’s world of imitations and copies

By Bekah Waalkes
Review

Documenting the terrifying fragility of human bodies in a burning world

By Shannon Osaka
Review

Reimagining the life of a boundary-breaking Chinese American actress

By Kathy Chow
Review

‘After the Funeral’ is another showcase for Tessa Hadley’s virtuosity

By Hamilton Cain
Perspective

An author mines her family’s origins to write ‘American Ending’

By Carole Burns
Our Critics
Ron Charles writes about books and publishing for The Washington Post. For a dozen years, he enjoyed teaching American literature and critical theory in the Midwest. Before moving to the District, he edited the books section of the Christian Science Monitor in Boston.
Becca Rothfeld is the nonfiction book critic at Book World. Before joining The Washington Post, she served as assistant literary editor of the New Republic and worked toward her PhD in philosophy at Harvard, where she focused on aesthetics and the history of philosophy.
Michael Dirda is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post Book World and the author of the memoir “An Open Book” and of four collections of essays: “Readings,” “Bound to Please,” “Book by Book” and “Classics for Pleasure.”

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Summer Reading 2023
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23 books to read this summer

Whether you’re traveling or catching the sun at home in the coming months, here are books we’ve enjoyed this year that make for good summer reading.
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Six mysteries for summer readers to solve

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Forecasting a busy summer of big books

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Four new works of fiction for your vacation reading

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5 escapist novels for your cabana enjoyment

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Best books of 2022
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The 10 best books of 2022

The Washington Post's picks for the very best fiction and nonfiction works of the year.
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The 15 best book covers of 2022

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50 notable works of fiction

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50 notable works of nonfiction

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The 12 best thriller and mystery novels of 2022

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