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The Independent promotes a global literary community by publishing intelligent, informed articles about the world of books from publishers large and small. With Washington, DC, as our base, we engage readers with daily reviews and features, and support writers through our annual Washington Writers Conference and other regional events.

September 2023 Reviews & Mentions
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Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close
Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier
The Wren, the Wren
Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt
Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West
The Shape of Normal: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability and Embracing a Different Kind of Perfect
The Which of Shakespeare's Why: A Novel of the Authorship Mystery Near Solution Today
Black girl magic & other elixirs
Lifecycle of a Beautiful Woman
Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family
Bliss Montage: Stories
Plain Air: Sketches from Winesburg, Indiana
Oh God, the Sun Goes
All the Eyes I Have Opened
Nadia
August 2023 Reviews & Mentions
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The Crown Ain't Worth Much
The Hunt
Beatrice's Last Smile: A New History of the Middle Ages
You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America
Kala
The Long Field: Wales and the Presence of Absence, a Memoir
Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Writers, Outsiders, and the Spanish Civil War
The Godmother: Murder, Vengeance, and the Bloody Struggle of Mafia Women
The Fifth ACT: America's End in Afghanistan
Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance
Saint Juniper's Folly
American Prometheus: The Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture Oppenheimer
In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonders of Complex Systems
The Pirate's Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd
Master Lovers
July 2023 Reviews & Mentions
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The Summer of 1876: Outlaws, Lawmen, and Legends in the Season That Defined the American West
The Church of Baseball: The Making of Bull Durham
Tears Over Russia: A Search for Family and the Legacy of Ukraine's Pogroms
The War Came to Us: Life and Death in Ukraine
After the Funeral and Other Stories
From Root to Seed: Black, Brown, and Indigenous Poets Write the Northeast
Poetry as Spellcasting: Poems, Essays, and Prompts for Manifesting Liberation and Reclaiming Power
Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic
His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine
American Ending
Crook Manifesto
The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial
Against Nature: A Rebours
O Say Can You Hear: A Cultural Biography of the Star-Spangled Banner
My Place in the Sun: Life in the Golden Age of Hollywood and Washington
June 2023 Reviews & Mentions
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8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster
A Stranger in Baghdad
Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir
The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War
Tomorrow We Will Know: A Novel of Imperial Constantinople 1453
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Beware the Woman
Jobs for Girls with Artistic Flair
Kalmann
A Traveler's Guide to the End of the World: Tales of Fire, Wind, and Water
Delicates
A Most Tolerant Little Town: The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation
Demoiselles of Numidia
Ozark Dogs
Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir
May 2023 Reviews & Mentions
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Into the Groove: The Story of Sound from Tin Foil to Vinyl
Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson
A Play Book: Creating Writers, Creating Citizens
Atalanta
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
Because Our Fathers Lied: A Memoir of Truth and Family, from Vietnam to Today
Ma and Me: A Memoir
Cleopatra's Daughter: From Roman Prisoner to African Queen
No Human Contact: Solitary Confinement, Maximum Security, and Two Inmates Who Changed the System
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
Coming to Terms with John F. Kennedy
Ghost Girl, Banana
The Pornography Wars: The Past, Present, and Future of America's Obscene Obsession
Positive Vibrations: Politics, Politricks and the Story of Reggae
Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration
April 2023 Reviews & Mentions
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The Real World of College: What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be
Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise and Fall of Sst Records
A Brutal Reckoning: Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South
Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn't Enough
Suddenly We
Some of the Light: New and Selected Poems
Never Sleep
Fragile Cargo: The World War II Race to Save the Treasures of China's Forbidden City
Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion, Ad 300-1300
There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the Ira, and Two Minutes That Changed History
Take My Hand
The Invisible Siege: The Rise of Coronaviruses and the Search for a Cure
We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
The Hitherto Secret Experiments of Marie Curie
Judgment and Mercy: The Turbulent Life and Times of the Judge Who Condemned the Rosenbergs
March 2023 Reviews & Mentions
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Best Minds: How Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary Poetry from Madness
Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the Er
Once We Were Home
Eliza Scidmore: The Trailblazing Journalist Behind Washington's Cherry Trees
Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End
Bittersweet (Oprah's Book Club): How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
Künstlers in Paradise
Athens: City of Wisdom
Tenacious Beasts: Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals
In Search of Amrit Kaur: A Lost Princess and Her Vanished World
Dust Child
The Hollow Kind
Sell Us the Rope
The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
Trace and Aura: The Recurring Lives of St. Ambrose of Milan
February 2023 Reviews & Mentions
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Brotherhood of the Flying Coffin: The Glider Pilots of World War II
A Woman's Life Is a Human Life: My Mother, Our Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice
The Turning Point: 1851--A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World
Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest
Hungry Ghosts
River of Earth
If I Survive You
Coming to Terms with John F. Kennedy
The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
A Forest Journey: The Role of Trees in the Fate of Civilization (Revised Originally Published in 1986)
The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It
The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth
Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine
The Red Balcony
Judas Goat: Poems
January 2023 Reviews & Mentions
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Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond
I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
A Left-Handed Woman: Essays
Anthem
American Comics: A History
Triumph Regained: The Vietnam War, 1965-1968
Ghost Music
The Love Scribe (Original)
The Myth of American Inequality: How Government Biases Policy Debate
Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer
Bad Cree
Bloodbath Nation
Mothers, Fathers, and Others: Essays
The Latinist
The Fireballer
Our 51 Favorite Books of 2022
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The Strange Inheritance of Leah Fern
American Caliph: The True Story of a Muslim Mystic, a Hollywood Epic, and the 1977 Siege of Washington, DC
Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad
Unnatural Creatures: A Novel of the Frankenstein Women
Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family
Blurb Your Enthusiasm: A Cracking Compendium of Book Blurbs, Writing Tips, Literary Folklore and Publishing Secrets
Thistlefoot
Shrines of Gaiety
The Book of Goose
Lessons
Blood & Ink: The Scandalous Jazz Age Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime
Kibogo
Bridge to the Sun: The Secret Role of the Japanese Americans Who Fought in the Pacific in World War II
Bliss Montage: Stories
The Last Karankawas
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