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Four new adaptations come to screens big and small today. The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump by Andrew G. McCabe is the newest Trump book to break big and make news. There is more on literary (and maybe musical) fakers.
The newly formed Summer Scares committee announces its selections for an annual booklist and slate of programs promoting and celebrating horror and dark literature for all ages.
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides leads the way for 12 new books on the bestseller lists. The NAACP Image Award nominees are out. Multiple outlets offer Valentine's Day reading suggestions. Vulture says the locked-room mystery is back.
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Lauren Wilkinson, and Valeria Luiselli dominate coverage today. Magnolia Table: A Collection of Recipes for Gathering by Joanna Gaines sold astoundingly well. Ottessa Moshfegh writes about Whoopi Goldberg. A forthcoming children's book has a huge payday as it moves to the big screen.
Michelle Obama makes the bestseller list in Iran. A medieval nun fakes her death. The Devil in the White City is headed to Hulu, and a Joe Hill short story is set for Netflix.
Spanning the sweep of the twentieth century, We Must Be Brave explores the fierce love that we feel for our children and the power of that love to endure. Beyond distance, beyond time, beyond life itself.
Fiction this week embraces works by Caine Prize winner Tope Folarin, New York Times historical fiction author Philippa Gregory, ITW Silver Bullet winner Karin Slaughter, Man Booker International Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk, and Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize winner and PEN/Hemingway finalist Amy Waldman. Nonfiction is crowned by National Book Award finalist Marie Arana’s Silver, Sword, and Stone, a study of Latin America.
Three women of color surmount challenges and advocate for others in key memoirs coming this summer.
The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo leads holds this week. Black Panther and BlacKkKlansman win awards on two continents. Stephen King has more adaptations on the way and EC comics is headed to a screen near you.