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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

What Should I Read Next producer Brenna described this as “compulsively readable” and finished it in 24 hours because she kept wanting more. Montell is both a linguist and a passionate nerd about words and language. Here she investigates why people join and stay in cults—not through mind control but through the power of language. In addition to shaping dangerous cults worthy of documentaries, “cultish” language has infiltrated our everyday lives in start-up culture, exercise programs, and modern marketing. Montell narrates the audiobook, creating a podcast-like experience perfect for fans of The Allusionist.

His Only Wife

Kirkus review calls this, “A Cinderella story set in Ghana… A Crazy Rich Asians for West Africa, with a healthy splash of feminism.”

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking

If you enjoy sitting down with hefty cookbooks and reading them like novels, it’s especially easy to do here. The first half of the book consists entirely of enjoyable stories and explanations about the cooking process, as Samin examines how each of the key elements—salt, fat, acid, and heat—affect a dish. I especially enjoyed the way she drew from her experience at Chez Panisse, sharing stories of kitchen disasters that happened because one of these elements had gone horribly awry. Once you understand the essentials, Samin leads you into the recipes held in the book’s second half. This book made me want to get cooking, and the gorgeous illustrations and flavor wheels make it particularly fun.

The Great Believers

Makkai’s prize-winning novel asks what it means to be family to one another, as the characters navigate heavy grief and loss within their tight knit communities. In 1985, Yale Tishman loves his job working in the fundraising department of a Chicago art gallery. But as his career takes off, the 1980s AIDS crisis wreaks havoc on his world, devastating his chosen family. Between chapters about Yale’s life, we learn his friend Fiona’s story, as she travels to Paris 30 years later in search of her estranged daughter. Both timelines kept me glued to the page, and they came together in such a brilliant way at the end of the book. Amy Poehler optioned this one for a “major television event.”

9 (mostly) little things I’m loving for late summer

I like to keep a list in my journal of the (mostly) little, everyday things bringing me a disproportionate amount

Sankofa

The New York Times Book Review calls this a “sneakily breezy, highly entertaining novel leaves the reader rethinking familiar narratives of colonization, inheritance and liberation.” From the publisher: “Anna is at a stage of her life when she’s beginning to wonder who she really is. Searching through her mother’s belongings one day, Anna finds clues about the African father she never knew. His student diaries chronicle his involvement in radical politics in 1970s London. Anna discovers that he eventually became the president—some would say dictator—of a small nation in West Africa. And he is still alive… When Anna decides to track her father down, a journey begins that is disarmingly moving, funny, and fascinating. Like the metaphorical bird that gives the novel its name, Sankofa expresses the importance of reaching back to knowledge gained in the past and bringing it into the present to address universal questions of race and belonging, the overseas experience for the African diaspora, and the search for a family’s hidden roots.”

Mark your calendars for Fall Book Preview and more this fall

It’s that time of year when the heat and humidity make me despair fall will ever arrive … but it

Links I love

What’s happening this weekend? Will and I are easing into the weekend by resuming our Friday planning coffee after a

An ode to an unattractive $9 piece of plastic that brings me oodles of quotidian joy

Several months ago I was talking to a team member here at MMD, who was telling me about something she

Conversations with Friends: A Novel

From the publisher: “Frances is a cool-headed and darkly observant young woman vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend and comrade-in-arms is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, Frances and Bobbi catch the eye of Melissa, a well-known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn into Melissa’s world, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman’s sophisticated home and tall, handsome husband, Nick. Written with gemlike precision and marked by a sly sense of humor, Conversations with Friends is wonderfully alive to the pleasures and dangers of youth and the messy edges of female friendship.”

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