The Other Side of Life 24/7: J.K Rowling, Roger Ebert, Meg Wolitzer, and more in the July Slate Book Review

It's July, it's a hundred and eleventy degrees, and all you want to do is curl up in the air conditioning with gin, tonic, and a book. Thankfully, the July issue of the Slate Book Review is here, intoxicatingly full of essays, reviews, and interviews! (Gin and tonic sold separately.)

Looking for new fiction? Twin Katy Waldman makes a twin killing this month, with reviews of Curtis Sittenfeld's twin novel Sisterland and The Cuckoo's Calling, the mystery novel that it turns out is actually by J.K. Rowling. Ed Park writes on Turtle Diary, the great lost novel of middle age – by the author of Bread and Jam for Frances, no less. Michelle Dean wrestles with two novels about professor-student love affairs. And L.V. Anderson reviews the Great Brooklyn Hookup Novel, Adelle Waldman's The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.

Looking for new nonfiction? Seth Stevenson writes about our infatuation with logos and branding in his review of Per Mollerup's Marks of Excellence. Katie Engelhart reads the love letter to London you never even knew Roger Ebert wrote. Julia M. Klein reviews Katie Hafner's moving memoir of an ailing parent, Mother Daughter Me. Katrina Gulliver explores the history of neon, and Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell explores the history of maternity wear. (They were both discovered about a hundred years ago!) And Eric Herschthal explains why those big new Revolutionary War histories in your local bookstore are all ignoring the last 25 years of RevWar research.

All this plus an author-editor conversation between Jincy Willett and Thomas Dunne; an Audio Book Club on Meg Wolitzer's The Interestings; and awesome illustrations by Jeff Zwirek, the cartoonist behind the innovative Burning Building Comix. Apply a cool cloth to your forehead and dive in!

	Books \| Slate Staff Summer Reading 2013: *Slate* Staff Picks *Slate*'s editors, designers, and columnists reveal their summer reading choices for 2013. Friday, June 7, 2013, at 6:30 a.m.

	Books \| Eric Herschthal Revolution Blues Why do popular histories of the War of Independence ignore modern scholarship? Wednesday, July 3, 2013, at 9:15 a.m.

Books | Curtis White
Ode to a Straw Man
What critics are getting wrong about my book.
Friday, July 12, 2013, at 5:45 a.m.

Books | Thomas Dunne and Jincy Willett
Jincy Willett and Thomas Dunne
The Slate Book Review author-editor conversation.
Friday, July 12, 2013, at 9:00 a.m.

Books | Dan Kois
Fire!!
The most inventively-made comic of the year is set on all 10 floors of a burning building.
Friday, July 12, 2013, at 9:20 a.m.

Books | Katrina Gulliver
The Light Fantastic
When neon was the new new thing.
Friday, July 12, 2013, at 9:40 a.m.

Books | Michelle Dean
The Professor-Student Love Affair, Revisited
Two new novels suggest we're still uncomfortable with the subject.
Friday, July 12, 2013, at 10:00 a.m.

Books | Ed Park
The Lost Great Novel of Middle Age
Written by the author of Bread and Jam for Frances, no less.
Friday, July 12, 2013, at 10:20 a.m.

Books | Katy Waldman
The Trouble With Twins
I hate you, you're just like me, and everything in between in Curtis Sittenfeld's new novel about the strange sibling relationship.
Friday, July 12, 2013, at 10:40 a.m.

Books | Katie Engelhart
Roger Ebert's Pilgrimage
Walking London with the late film critic, thanks to his long-lost 1986 book.
Friday, July 12, 2013, at 11:20 a.m.

Books | Katy Waldman
Private "I"
J. K. Rowling's undercover detective story sounds sort of like her, sort of better.
yesterday, July 16, 2013, at 11:34 a.m.

Books | Seth Stevenson
Pattern Recognition
The swoosh, the golden arches, the chevron, and a million other logos your hindbrain can recognize before you do.
Friday, July 12, 2013, at 11:40 a.m.

Books | L.V. Anderson
Sex and the Single Intellectual
The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. exposes the personal hypocrisy of the chattering classes.
Friday, July 12, 2013, at 12:00 p.m.