TODAY: In 1859, Charles Dickens' A Tale Of Two Cities is first serialized in literary periodical All the Year Round.
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Katie Kitamura’s Audition, Diarmaid MacCulloch’s Lower Than the Angels, David Szalay’s Flesh, and Elaine Pagels’ Miracles and Wonder all feature among April’s best reviewed books. | Book Marks
“I was used to hearing human women slut-shamed; it was new to me that men would call cats sluts.” Courtney Gustafson explores casual misogyny in animal rescue. | Lit Hub Memoir
For centuries, evidence of Shakespeare’s romance with the Earl of Southampton has been willfully misinterpreted or outright ignored. This is the first book to chronicle all the evidence—both historical and literary—of their enduring love.
Jackie Snow on what she learned about reading while working at a books to prisons nonprofit: “The thousands of letters I’ve read since that first day in 2017 made me confront my own literary prejudices.” | Los Angeles Review of Books
