Some great nonfiction among this week's reviews: The World According to Joan Didion by Evelyn McDonnell is "written with a feminist's eye, a poet's command of language, and a fan's yearning"; Heather Cox Richardson "offers an eye-opening history and her thoughts on the current state of U.S. democracy" in Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America; and in Something, Someday, presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman "tells one story with her words while Caldecott Honor artist Christian Robinson suggests another with his pictures." Plus so many more!
In The Writer's Life, Joy McCullough, a National Book Award finalist for Blood Paint Water, talks with Hannah V. Sawyer, her student and a debut novelist, about where life meets art.
--Jennifer M. Brown, senior editor, Shelf Awareness