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Lit Hub discusses how Senator Ted Cruz’s questions during Kentanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court nomination hearing have landed books like The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale (Verso) on best seller lists. Also, The Washington Post addresses Ted Cruz’s use of Ibram X. Kendi’s Antiracist Baby (Kokila). NYT also covers scholars’ take on this story.

Lit Hub reports on the newest book banning bill in Oklahoma, including remarks from the House floor.

USA Today explores “this week’s best sellers lists.”

New Title Bestsellers

Links for the week: NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers | NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers | USA Today Best-Selling Books

Fiction

The War of Two Queens by Jennifer L. Armentrout (Blue Box) reigns at No. 1 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Match by Harlan Coben (Grand Central; LJ starred review) lights up No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 3 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James (Berkley; LJ starred review) opens at No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Give unto Others by Donna Leon (Atlantic Monthly Pr.) debuts at No. 13 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Nonfiction

Lessons From The Edge: A Memoir by Marie Yovanovitch (Mariner) rises to No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

WayMaker: Finding the Way to the Life You’ve Always Dreamed Of by Ann Voskamp (Thomas Nelson: HarperCollins) starts at No. 8 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Reviews

NYT publishes four short reviews on the newest mystery and crime books including: The Recovery Agent by Janet Evanovich (Atria), Under Lock & Skeleton Key: A Secret Staircase Mystery by Gigi Pandian (Minotaur), The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James (Berkley; LJ starred review), and Beat the Devils by Josh Weiss (Grand Central). 

The Washington Post reviews Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou (Penguin Pr.): “does what great comedies and satires are supposed to do: make you laugh while forcing you to ponder the uncomfortable implications of every punchline.”

The Los Angeles Times reviews Hammer by Joe Mungo Reed (S. & S.): “a timely document of a world in which corruption and sincerity, lofty intentions and craven pursuits, can be impossible even for the perpetrators to tell apart.”

Locus Magazine reviews Can't Find My Way Home by Gwynne Garfinkle (Aqueduct): “It is also a testament to Garfinkle's writing that it is never entirely clear whether Joanna is a reliable narrator.”

Lit Hub has “5 Books Reviews You Need To Read This Week.”

Briefly Noted

Julia May Jonas, Vladimir (Avid Reader: S. & S.), recounts a scene from Karl Ove Knausgaard’s A Man in Love for Vulture’s “The Best Sex I Ever Read” series.

Lit Hub shares news that Viking will publish a book of letters by John le Carré titled A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré, edited by his son Tom Cornwell, to be released this fall. Also, a new Kate Atkinson novel, Shrines of Gaiety, to come out by Doubleday.

Entertainment Weekly interviews G. Willow Wilson about a new Poison Ivy comic.

David Shields, The Very Last Interview (New York Review), answers NYT’s By the Book questionnaire.

Ralph Macchio will be coming out with a new memoir Waxing On: The Karate Kid and Me, People has a first look.

Tor.com shares an excerpt from The Devil's Dictionary by Steven Kotler (St. Martin’s). Plus, a cover reveal for Dead Man's Hand by James J. Butcher (Ace).

Ploughshares revisits Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist (Anchor). 

Slate takes a look back on the writing of Iris Murdoch, author of Under the Net (Penguin).

Tor.com provides “Eight Incredible Examples of Epistolary Horror.”

CrimeReads shares “March’s Best Debut Fiction.”

Authors on Air

Thomas Fisher, author of The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER (One World; LJ starred review), speaks to NPR’s Fresh Air about his “life in a Chicago ER during the first year of the pandemic.”

Oprah Daily features an exclusive audiobook excerpt of Illogical: Saying Yes to a Life Without Limits by Emmanuel Acho (Flatiron).

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