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Our Week in Reviews: 6/20/26

A recap of the books we’ve spotlighted in the past few days.

    The Afterlife Project

    Book Review

    The Afterlife Project

    By Tim Weed

    Is far-future time travel the key to repopulating the Earth with humans?

    Whistler: A Novel

    Book Review

    Whistler: A Novel

    By Ann Patchett

    The impact of a dramatic childhood event is revisited decades later.

    Poetry Review

    On Poetry: June 2026

    New collections to make life more lyrical.

    Book Review

    Men Like Ours: A Novel

    By Bindu Bansinath

    Men Like Ours: A Novel

    A sharp, pitch-black thriller about culture and assimilation.

    Book Review

    No Contact: Writers on Estrangement

    Edited by Jenny Bartoy

    No Contact: Writers on Estrangement

    When survival means saying, “You’re dead to me.”

    Podcast

    Authors on Audio: Matthew Pinsker

    An occasional series in which writers speak for themselves.

    Book Review

    All Us Saints: A Novel

    By Katherine Packert Burke

    All Us Saints: A Novel

    Traumatized siblings reenact a night of violence.

    Book Review

    An Inconvenient Widow: The Torment, Trial, and Triumph of Mary Todd Lincoln

    The famously volatile figure is cast in a sympathetic light.

    Book Review

    It All Felt Impossible

    By Tom McAllister

    It All Felt Impossible

    A man takes annual stock of his life in this unique collection.

    Book Review

    Family & Other Calamities

    By Leslie Gray Streeter

    Family & Other Calamities

    A wry, widowed journalist returns home to right some wrongs.