| | | | | "On both a conscious level and less-conscious level, I really wanted to write a book that many people hated," Choire Sicha says in our Slate Book Review author-editor conversation, published in our August issue, out now. We love Sicha's book, Very Recent History, but your mileage may vary! The interview is worth your time as a remarkably transparent look into the process of making a book, even when its original editor disappears. There's plenty to love and/or hate in our new issue. Our Audio Book Club loved Kate Atkinson's Life After Life. Mark O'Connell did not love David Foster Wallace's 1990 book about hip-hop. And Hanna Rosin thought Sophie Fontanel could stand to get a little more lovin' in her review of Fontanel's memoir of chastity, The Art of Sleeping Alone. Don't miss our reviews of exciting new fiction: Paul Murray (Skippy Dies) on Aifric Campbell's On the Floor; Jane Hu on Caleb Crain's Necessary Errors; and David Haglund on Javier Marías' The Infatuations. Dan Kois spent an entire vacation reading nothing but raggedy, flimsy mass-market paperbacks – and loved it. And Boris Kachka tells the real story of what happened when Oprah Winfrey chose Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections for her book club. Plus, amazing illustrations by Nate Powell, the cartoonist behind Rep. John Lewis' lovely graphic autobiography, March. It's the last month of summer! Read some books! We're here to help. Thanks for reading. | | |  | Books | Dan Kois
Mass-Market Marathon
One week at the beach, 23 pocket paperbacks.
Monday, August 5, 2013, at 5:32 a.m.
| | |  | 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 | Alison Hallett
Outrageous Fortune
A self-published riff on Hamlet broke every Kickstarter record. But is this book worth $580,905?
Friday, August 9, 2013, at 12:00 p.m.
| | |  | Books | Boris Kachka
Corrections
The short and difficult marriage of Jonathan Franzen and Oprah Winfrey.
Monday, August 5, 2013, at 11:21 a.m.
| | |  | Books | Dan Kois
A Superhero's Origin Story
A new comics trilogy tells the tale of Rep. John Lewis and the struggle for civil rights.
Friday, August 9, 2013, at 6:45 a.m.
| | |  | Books | Choire Sicha and Barry Harbaugh
Choire Sicha and Barry Harbaugh
The Slate Book Review author-editor conversation.
Friday, August 9, 2013, at 7:35 a.m.
| | |  | Books | Seth Colter Walls
Britten's Boys
A new biography explores the music of Benjamin Britten, but does it give short shrift to the composer's infatuation with the underage?
Friday, August 9, 2013, at 9:00 a.m.
| | |  | Books | Jonathan Farmer
The Beautiful Uncut Hair of Graves
Brian Teare's poetry is about grass, but it's also about life and death.
Friday, August 9, 2013, at 9:20 a.m.
| | |  | Books | S.T. VanAirsdale
Moses Parting the Red-Ink Sea
Clark Howard, the most reasonable financial guru in the bookstore.
Friday, August 9, 2013, at 10:00 a.m.
| | |  | Books | Jane Hu
Nothing Happens, Deliberately
Why Necessary Errors feels like a new model for contemporary fiction.
Friday, August 9, 2013, at 10:20 a.m.
| | |  | Books | David Haglund
Plots
The characters in Javier Marías' novel say plot doesn't matter—but they're stuck in one.
Friday, August 9, 2013, at 10:40 a.m.
| | |  | Books | Michael Meyer
See You Again, Old Beijing
My book was banned in China for five years. Then they cleared it—and let me visit on a book tour.
Friday, August 9, 2013, at 11:00 a.m.
| | |  | Books | Mark O'Connell
My Metonym for Self-Reference Weighs a Ton
When the "resoundingly and in all ways white" David Foster Wallace tried to write about hip-hop.
Friday, August 9, 2013, at 11:20 a.m.
| | |  | Books | Paul Murray
A Skirt Amongst Men
Aifric Campbell's caustic novel follows a young Irishwoman's rise in the world of high finance.
Friday, August 9, 2013, at 12:20 p.m.
| | |  | The Audio Book Club | Emily Bazelon and Dan Kois and Katy Waldman
The Audio Book Club on Life After Life
Our critics love Kate Atkinson's ingenious historical (and counter-historical) novel of World War II.
Friday, August 9, 2013, at 5:10 a.m.
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