1featherbear
... that isn't just "beach reading" or "classics":
Zadie Smith. Guardian, 06/13/2026: What to read this summer by Mark Haddon, Samantha Harvey, Zadie Smith and more. "Leading authors including Sarah Waters, William Dalrymple, Bernardine Evaristo and Anne Enright reveal their perfect holiday reading."
If the list seems too frivolous, consider:
Gregory Makoff, interviewer Benedict King. fivebooks.com, 06/12/2026: The best books on Sovereign Default and Debt Restructuring.
For shorter attention spans (New Yorker is paywalled, so I've provided the list):
Rachel Syme et al. New Yorker, 06/10/2026: What We’re Reading This Summer: Pocket Reads: New Yorker writers name their favorite short books. The list: The Girls of Slender Means / Muriel Spark -- 1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left / Robyn Hitchcock -- The Captain's Daughter / Alexander Pushkin; translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler (New York Review Books edition) -- My Family and Other Animals / Gerald Durrell -- Wigs on the Green / Nancy Mitford -- A Way of Life, Like Any Other / Darcy O'Brien -- Great Granny Webster / Caroline Blackwood -- Ballerina (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) / Patrick Modiano; Mark Polizzotti (Translator) -- Sojourn / Amit Chaudhuri.
Zadie Smith. Guardian, 06/13/2026: What to read this summer by Mark Haddon, Samantha Harvey, Zadie Smith and more. "Leading authors including Sarah Waters, William Dalrymple, Bernardine Evaristo and Anne Enright reveal their perfect holiday reading."
If the list seems too frivolous, consider:
Gregory Makoff, interviewer Benedict King. fivebooks.com, 06/12/2026: The best books on Sovereign Default and Debt Restructuring.
For shorter attention spans (New Yorker is paywalled, so I've provided the list):
Rachel Syme et al. New Yorker, 06/10/2026: What We’re Reading This Summer: Pocket Reads: New Yorker writers name their favorite short books. The list: The Girls of Slender Means / Muriel Spark -- 1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left / Robyn Hitchcock -- The Captain's Daughter / Alexander Pushkin; translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler (New York Review Books edition) -- My Family and Other Animals / Gerald Durrell -- Wigs on the Green / Nancy Mitford -- A Way of Life, Like Any Other / Darcy O'Brien -- Great Granny Webster / Caroline Blackwood -- Ballerina (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) / Patrick Modiano; Mark Polizzotti (Translator) -- Sojourn / Amit Chaudhuri.
