A new issue of Shiny New Books was released today, with a bumper crop of fantastic reviews. Shiny New Books is celebrating its first anniversary and with every issue they’ve brought us dozens of intriguing articles. It is always a pleasure to read through a new issue and I’m particularly thankful that I’m on vacation this week so I can do full justice to the two-dozen or so articles that I’ve tagged to read!
Here are a few of the pieces from this issue that have caught my eye already:
The Reluctant Hostess by Ethelind Fearon
Basil Street Blues by Michael Holroyd (recently reissued by Slightly Foxed)
Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
A Curious Friendship by Anna Thomasson
Portrait Inside My Head by Phillip Lopate
Five Came Back; A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War by Mark Harris
I could go on and on but instead I will get back to reading!
The Captive Reader 
Thanks for linking, Claire, and I’m v glad this came at such an opportune moment for you! I am raving about A Curious Friendship everywhere – I think you’ll love it.