1. Eugene L. Meyer’s review of The Final Solution to the Jewish Question: A Love Story for the Living by Dara Horn (Avid Reader Press). “The Netanyahu government’s military response in Gaza and the West Bank has also inspired violence against American Jews. Horn makes no excuses for Israeli excesses or expansionist aims, but she decries the demonization of all Israelis that crosses from the political to the personal and also paints the planet’s 15 million Jews with the same broad brush.”


2. “32 Books They Ought to Assign in School (but Probably Won’t).” “What should high-schoolers and undergrads be reading these days? We have some thoughts!”


3. “Sneak Preview: Fall 2026.” “Thousands of books are published each month. And much as we’d like to, we can’t read (or review) them all. But what we can do is point out a few we think you might enjoy. In that spirit, here’s a rundown of forthcoming titles that caught our eye and may catch yours, too.”


4. “On Poetry: September 2026” by Amanda Holmes Duffy. “Let me begin with a breath of fresh air by way of the charming Ghost Skin by Diane Bliss (Finishing Line Press). In crisply constructed poems, Bliss delivers ways of looking at nature that allow us to see more deeply. We go into her poems quietly and, suddenly, something takes us by surprise.”


5. Randy Cepuch’s review of Kobuk the Destroyer: And Other Tales from the Wild, Unseen World of Test Engineering by Alex Davies (W.W. Norton & Company). “Humans being human, making anything completely safe is an impossible dream because nothing gets used in just one way. Screwdrivers are designed to tighten or loosen screws, a task for which they’re tested, but they’re also often used to pry the lids off paint cans, a task for which they’re not. Of course, there are limits to foreseeable uses. It’s hard to imagine anyone would use a screwdriver as an ear cleaner, but you never know. (No wonder plastic bags have labels warning they’re not toys.)”

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