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Topic: Books (page 29)

Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump by Jennifer Mercieca (Getty Images/Texas A&M University Press/Salon)

Trump won with these six strategies

Paul Rosenberg
Five Days by Wes Moore | People hold placards as they join a Black Lives Matter march to protest the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis (Book Jacket provided by publicist/Getty Images/Salon)

Baltimore Uprising lessons about racism

D. Watkins
First Lady Melania Trump (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Melania's biography is rich and empty

Roger Sollenberger
Group of friends enjoying the Pride Parade (Getty Images)

The queering of friendship  

Mia Birdsong
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Comic book artist and Seal Beach resident Georges Jeanty at Pulp Fiction comic book store in Long Beach, CA (Getty Images/Scott Varley/Digital First Media/Torrance Daily Breeze)

5 graphic novels by Black authors

Ashlie D. Stevens
Neon Girls by Jennifer Worley (Harper Perennial)

Workplace lessons from the strip club

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Death in her Hands by Otessa Moshfeigh, Self Care by Leigh Stein, Block Seventeen by Kimiko Guthrie, You Exist too Much by Zaina Arafat, and The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (Salon/Riverhead Books/Catapult/Blackstone Publishing/Penguin)

To read: "The Vanishing Half" and more

Erin Keane, Ashlie D. Stevens, Hanh Nguyen
US President Donald Trump delivers remarks in front of the media in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Masha Gessen: Trump's attack on America

Andrew O'Hehir
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US Capitol Building (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Our politics is broken. It can be fixed

Katherine M. Gehl, Michael E. Porter
The Airborne Toxic Event (Big Hassle PR)

Airborne Toxic Event Jollett on writing

Annie Zaleski
Fintan O'Toole and Donald Trump (Salon/Alex Brandon/AP Photo/Alan Betson/The Irish Times)

Fintan O'Toole on America the "pitiful"

Chauncey DeVega
Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner (Andrea Cipriani/Atria Books )

Jen Weiner's "Big Summer" bright spot

Alli Joseph
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Claire Bidwell Smith (Ron Purdy)

"People think they're grieving wrong"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
"Notes from an Apocalypse" by Mark O'Connell | A patient is provided medical care during the novel coronavirus pandemic. (Doubleday/Getty Images/Salon)

Are the rich preparing for apocalypse?

Chauncey DeVega
Split of: "All Adults Here" by Emma Straub, "Sansei & Sensibility by Karen Teil Yamashita, "The Prettiest Star" by Carter Sickels, and "Almond" by Won-pyung Sohn (Riverhead Books/Coffee House Press/Hub City Press/HarperVia/Salon)

Check out May's new must-read books

Erin Keane, Ashlie D. Stevens, Hanh Nguyen
Stock Market tanking | Apocalypse (Getty Images/Salon)

How do we escape the "death economy"?

Chauncey DeVega
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"On Vanishing" by Lynn Casteel Harper (Travis Tanay/Catapult)

"Our ageism is linked to the economy"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
"American Harvest" by Marie Mutsuki Mockett (Sylvie Rosokoff/Graywolf Press)

Do you know where your wheat comes from?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Pink planner with the words "I Am Very Busy" on the cover (ban.do)

"Being busy all the time is not healthy"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Good Boy by Jennifer Finney Boylan (Dan Haar/Celadon Books)

"Dogs see us for who we really are"

Nicole Karlis
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Letter sent to Madeleine L'Engle from editor James Henle in regards to her story, "Summer Camp" | The Moment of Tenderness by Madeleine L'Engle (Grand Central Publishing/Crosswicks)

Read this early Madeleine L'Engle story

Madeleine L'Engle
Plant Magic by Christine Buckley (Shambhala/Lawrence Braun)

Science and herbalism become friends

Nicole Karlis
Why Fish Don't Exist by Lulu Miller (Kristen Finn/Simon & Schuster)

Lulu Miller's weird, unclassifiable book

Hanh Nguyen
"Broken" by Don Winslow (William Morrow)

Coronavirus is a metaphor for Trump pain

Chauncey DeVega
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