Word of Mouth: Heavy Summer Edition

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Engage or escape? Here are some recommendations for bizarre times.

Novel: Liquid Snakes — Stephen Kearse

Novel: The Best We Could Hope For — Nicola Kraus

Novel: Welcome to Murder Week — Karen Dukess

Memoir: Bad Naturalist: One Woman’s Ecological Education on a Wild Virginia Mountaintop— Paula Whyman

Encouragement: Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change — Maggie Smith

Non-Fiction: The Premonition: A Pandemic Story — Michael Lewis

Movie: Materialists — Celine Song

Podcast: The Call Is Coming From Inside the Court — Amicus with Dahlia Lithwick

Essay: America Has Never Seen Corruption Like This — Casey Michel

Essay: The Worst-Kept Secret of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict — Yair Rosenberg

TV: The Flight Attendant — Steve Yockey

TV: Her Majesty — Borja Cobeaga, Diego San José

Word of Mouth: Almost Spring Edition

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Memoir: Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing — Dionne Ford

Non-Fiction: Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters — Brian Klaas

Movie: American Fiction — Cord Jefferson

Movie: The Meyerowitz Stories(new and selected) — Noah Baumbach

TV: Mr and Mrs Smith — Donald Glover, Francesca Sloane

TV: Magpie Murders — Anthony Horowitz, Peter Cattaneo

Idea: “President Biden has thus far declined to impose consequences on Netanyahu for his repeated disregard of U.S. positions and interests. Ending the double standard which sets a lower bar for Israel, and requiring the mutual recognition of the right to statehood and compliance with the other Quartet Principles, would be an even-handed place to start. It is essential for the U.S. to enforce this mutual recognition, as it seeks to not merely end the current war, but set a course to finally resolve the underlying conflict, and ensure that the horrors suffered by Israelis and Palestinians never happen again.”

Both the Israeli and Palestinian governments should be obligated to recognize the other’s right to statehoodDylan Williams in the Forward

Idea: “It’s tempting to see Navalny’s apparent murder, as some American analysts have, as a sign of weakness on the part of Putin. But a dictator’s ability to annihilate what he fears is a measure of his hold on power, as is his ability to choose the time to strike.”

The Death of Alexey Navalny, Putin’s Most Formidable Opponent — Masha Gessen in the New Yorker

WORD OF MOUTH: Early Winter

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Novel: The Bandit Queens — Parini Shroff

Non-Fiction: Your Face Belongs To Us: A Secretive Startup’s Quest To End Privacy as We Know It — Kashmir Hill

Psychology: Spite: The Upside of Your Dark Side — Simon McCarthy-Jones

Memoir: Foolish: Tales of Assimilation, Determination, and Humiliation — Sarah Cooper

Memoir: Misfit: Growing Up Awkward in the ’80s — Gary Gulman

Movie: Nyad – Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

Novel: The Thursday Murder Club — Richard Osman

Podcast: What Now? –– Trevor Noah

WORD OF MOUTH: EARLY SUMMER

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Novel: The Liar — Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

Novel: Post-Traumatic — Chantal V. Johnson

Novel: Her — Harriet Lane

Non-fiction: Sorry, Sorry, Sorry: the Case for Good Apologies — Marjorie Ingall, Susan McCarthy

Memoir: The Summer of Fall: Gravity Is a Bitch, but I’m Still Standing — Laura Lippman

Young Adult Novel: Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass — Meg Medina

TV: Abbot Elementary — Quinta Brunson

Movie: You Hurt My Feelings — Nicole Holofcener

Documentary: Three Minutes: a Lengthening — Bianca Stigter, Glenn Kurtz