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January 2026

How books challenge, comfort, and change us
Books really do furnish a life, and this short memoir of sorts will validate book-lovers everywhere.
 • Amelia Zimmerman
What a banned book can teach us about power, ignorance, and how history creeps up on us
Forty years on, The Handmaid's Tale remains a defiant book about remaining human in an inhumane world.
 • Amelia Zimmerman
Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
A haunting book about the dark side of progress, the brevity of human life, and the way we surrender to our fates.
 • Amelia Zimmerman
Careless People, by Sarah Wynn-Williams
Sarah Wynn-Williams’ passenger-seat ride through the chaos years of Facebook is riveting, shocking, often funny, and perhaps a little too perfect.
 • Amelia Zimmerman
The Three-Body Problem, by Cixin Liu
A sci-fi novel for sci-fi people.
 • Amelia Zimmerman
Book Review: Paper Girl, by Beth Macy
Beth Macy's latest book is part memoir, part reportage, and a powerful look at the hollowed-out core of America.
 • Amelia Zimmerman
Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future, by Jason Stanley
“The professors are the enemy.” — J.D. Vance
 • Amelia Zimmerman
My Favourite Book of 2025: On Freedom, by Timothy Snyder
This beautiful, intimate book about what freedom really means is the book we all need as the term becomes increasingly abused by the far Right.
 • Amelia Zimmerman
A Place of Greater Safety, by Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mantel’s epic doorstopper brings the French Revolution to life — in intimate, violent, and inescapably human detail.
 • Amelia Zimmerman
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