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It’s been a great year (for books)
FromThe Decibel
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Length:
19 minutes
Released:
Dec 17, 2021
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Podcast episode
Description
It’s the perfect time to escape into a book. Arts editor Judith Pereira and Western Arts Correspondent Marsha Lederman on the book trends this year, the silver lining of the pandemic’s effect on independent booksellers, and what you should cozy up and read.All the books mentioned in this episode (in order):Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony DoerDucks, Newburyport by Lucy EllmannFight Night by Miriam ToewsThe Strangers by Katherena VermetteOh William! by Elizabeth StroutAll’s Well by Mona AwadMatrix by Lauren GroffWe Want What We Want by Alix OhlinBewilderment by Richard PowersAstra by Cedar BowersCare Of by Ivan CoyoteEveryone Knows Your Mother is a Witch by Rivka GalchenWhat Strange Paradise by Omar el AkkadReturn of the Trickster by Eden RobinsonCrossroads by Jonathan FranzenNightbitch by Rachel YoderOn Animals by Susan OrleanSilence of the Girls by Pat BarkerMiddlemarch by George Elliot
Released:
Dec 17, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
A quieter ‘patriots only’ election in Hong Kong: This weekend, Hong Kongers head to the polls to elect their government. Well, to elect 20 of the 90 seats in their Legislative Council – and from a roster of candidates carefully vetted by the Communist Party of China in Beijing. The Globe’s Asia correspondent James Griffiths tells us how Hong Kong’s normally boisterous election has been quieted by the new national security law, and why it’s still going ahead despite critics calling it a sham. by The Decibel