On December 16, we’ll have our next book club. This time we’ll be talking about the Charles Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol. We’ll be meeting 8-9:30pm EST on Zoom. This book club is brought to you by our new Book Club Editor, Sarah Linville!

Michael Jimenez reviews The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir by Griffin Dunne (Penguin, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice reviews The Forbidden Experiment: The Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron by Roger Shattuck, with introduction by Jed Perl (New York Review of Books, 2025).

Matthew J Sparacio reviews The Painter’s Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution by Zara Anishanslin (Harvard University Press, 2025)

Brody Eldridge reviews Hansel and Gretel by Stephen King, with illustrations by Maurice Sendak (Scribner, 2025).

Elizabeth Stice reviews Dirtbag Billionaire: How Yvon Chouinard Built Patagonia, Made a Fortune, and Gave It All Away by David Gelles (Simon & Schuster, 2025)

Brody Eldridge reviews Never Flinch by Stephen King (Scribner, 2025).

From the Stacks: Nadya Williams wishes we had some of the works of Tacitus that are permanently out of print.

Elizabeth Stice reviews Kant: A Revolution in Thinking by Marcus Willaschek (Harvard University Press, 2025)

Sarah Selden Linville reviews The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong (Penguin, 2025).

Elizabeth Stice reviews Katabasis by R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager, 2025).

Saija Wilson reviews Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV by Amanda Wunder (Yale University Press, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice reviews The Killing Season: The Autumn of 1914, Ypres, and the Afternoon That Cost Germany The War by Robert Cowley (Random House, 2025)

A “From the Stacks” piece by Joel Tannenbaum about DREAMS ABOUT H.M. THE QUEEN and other members of the Royal Family by Brian Masters.

A little taste of Washington Irving as we head into autumn.

Elizabeth Stice reviews 1942: When World War II Engulfed the Globe by Peter Fritzsche (Basic Books, 2025)

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Don McCulloch reviews The Power of Parting: Finding Peace and Freedom Through Family Estrangement by Eamon Dolan (Penguin Random House, 2025).

Kimberly Bain reviews Sweet and Deadly: How Coca-Cola Spreads Disinformation and Makes Us Sick by Murray Carpenter (MIT Press, 2025)

Elizabeth Stice reviews The Essential Book of Pickup Trucks by Fred Haefele (Bison Books, 2025)