Deputy editor, New York Times Book Review. Reader, writer, archives fiend.https://bsky.app/profile/tinajordan.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/tinajordan.bsky.social/post/3lzlixnd5x22hPopping into Bluesky after a social media respite to bring you this amazing story that Liz Egan and Katie Rosman have been working on for months. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/nyregion/amy-griffin-memoir-psychedelic-drugs.html24 Sep 2025 13:07 +0000at://did:plc:57phqtytmvdi2csnrtbsbhow/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzlixnd5x22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/tinajordan.bsky.social/post/3lpzcedp4c227I'm sure it's a Memorial Day thing, but there have been fighter jets screaming over the house for the last 15 minutes (I live in the Hudson Valley). It's just an instant flashback to 9/11 and I need it to stop.25 May 2025 18:34 +0000at://did:plc:57phqtytmvdi2csnrtbsbhow/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpzcedp4c227https://bsky.app/profile/tinajordan.bsky.social/post/3lp2glyw5uk2zGood morning! A slew of new books coming out today. FIrst up is Ron Chernow's long-awaited biography of Mark Twain. (Spoiler alert: Our critic Dwight Garner really, really doesn't like it.) https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/books/review/mark-twain-ron-chernow.html13 May 2025 11:57 +0000at://did:plc:57phqtytmvdi2csnrtbsbhow/app.bsky.feed.post/3lp2glyw5uk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/tinajordan.bsky.social/post/3lojwgogfxc2h"But it turns out that 'James' was not the top pick among the Pulitzer’s five fiction jury members. It wasn’t even in the top three, according to three people with knowledge of the process, who were not authorized to speak about the confidential deliberations." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/books/james-percival-everett-pulitzer-jury.html06 May 2025 22:25 +0000at://did:plc:57phqtytmvdi2csnrtbsbhow/app.bsky.feed.post/3lojwgogfxc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/tinajordan.bsky.social/post/3lnxptmkhrc2pDay 2 of our poetry challenge! https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/books/edna-st-vincent-millay-rhythm.html29 Apr 2025 16:39 +0000at://did:plc:57phqtytmvdi2csnrtbsbhow/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnxptmkhrc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/tinajordan.bsky.social/post/3lnuveppiss27Why memorize a poem? As A.O. Scott writes, "At a time when we are flooded with texts, rants and A.I. slop, a poem occupies a quieter, less commodified corner of your consciousness. It’s a flower in the windowbox of your mind." https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/books/edna-st-vincent-millay-recuerdo-poem-challenge.html28 Apr 2025 13:40 +0000at://did:plc:57phqtytmvdi2csnrtbsbhow/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnuveppiss27https://bsky.app/profile/tinajordan.bsky.social/post/3lnuodwffqc27Join us at the Book Review as we embark on a week-long voyage to help you memorize a poem — something to fill the soul and focus the mind. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/books/edna-st-vincent-millay-recuerdo-poem-challenge.html28 Apr 2025 11:35 +0000at://did:plc:57phqtytmvdi2csnrtbsbhow/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnuodwffqc27https://bsky.app/profile/tinajordan.bsky.social/post/3lnblrlu56c2z"Mr. Hegseth’s aides had warned him a day or two before the Yemen strikes not to discuss such sensitive operational details in his Signal group chat ... It was unclear how Mr. Hegseth ... responded to those warnings." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/us/politics/hegseth-yemen-attack-second-signal-chat.html20 Apr 2025 21:28 +0000at://did:plc:57phqtytmvdi2csnrtbsbhow/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnblrlu56c2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/tinajordan.bsky.social/post/3lmq46gkzuk2fFive days out from a knee replacement, I think I might live after all. This is ROUGH.13 Apr 2025 22:34 +0000at://did:plc:57phqtytmvdi2csnrtbsbhow/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmq46gkzuk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/tinajordan.bsky.social/post/3lm5njtdhgk2q"I can recognize the ptarmigan’s plumage and the petals of St. John’s wort from her descriptions, without the aid of a single image," Sadie Stein writes. "The smell of sawed pine is 'like strawberry jam on the boil, but with a tang that tautens the membranes of nose and throat.'" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/books/review/nan-shepherd-living-mountain.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9k4.DOT0.4fWAbYpc7qZ9&smid=url-share06 Apr 2025 14:24 +0000at://did:plc:57phqtytmvdi2csnrtbsbhow/app.bsky.feed.post/3lm5njtdhgk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/tinajordan.bsky.social/post/3llvvbma2us2tOur latest project at the Book Review — a curated page of fantasy novel recommendations — is live. Maybe reading a fantasy novel is just the ticket right now! https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/books/fantasy-books.html03 Apr 2025 12:21 +0000at://did:plc:57phqtytmvdi2csnrtbsbhow/app.bsky.feed.post/3llvvbma2us2thttps://bsky.app/profile/tinajordan.bsky.social/post/3lllq4piin22lIf you've never read anything by Tanith Lee, Silvia Moreno-Garcia knows where you should start. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/books/review/the-essential-tanith-lee.html30 Mar 2025 11:22 +0000at://did:plc:57phqtytmvdi2csnrtbsbhow/app.bsky.feed.post/3lllq4piin22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/tinajordan.bsky.social/post/3llfk24zofk2k"And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne ceaselessly back into a book that its author considered calling 'Trimalchio in West Egg,'" Tony Scott writes. "Would we still be talking about it if he had? "But he called it 'The Great Gatsby' and we are." https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/27/books/great-gatsby-100.html28 Mar 2025 00:17 +0000at://did:plc:57phqtytmvdi2csnrtbsbhow/app.bsky.feed.post/3llfk24zofk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/tinajordan.bsky.social/post/3ll2biqnxcc2rHas anyone here besides me read — and loved — Chloe Dalton's "Raising Hare"? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/books/memoir-wild-animals-raising-hare.html23 Mar 2025 12:45 +0000at://did:plc:57phqtytmvdi2csnrtbsbhow/app.bsky.feed.post/3ll2biqnxcc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/tinajordan.bsky.social/post/3lkvghewayc2mIf you need a moment of beauty and calm this morning, dip into Tony Scott's latest poetry close read. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/21/books/adrienne-rich-aunt-jennifers-tigers-poem.html21 Mar 2025 14:31 +0000at://did:plc:57phqtytmvdi2csnrtbsbhow/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkvghewayc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/tinajordan.bsky.social/post/3lkv7gdeq7s2mWe’ve published a few of what we’re calling “starter packs” this year, and today we’ve got another: classic private-eye detective novels, brought to you by our wonderful crime fiction columnist @sarahweinman.com. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/21/books/private-eye-detective-books-mystery.html21 Mar 2025 12:25 +0000at://did:plc:57phqtytmvdi2csnrtbsbhow/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkv7gdeq7s2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/tinajordan.bsky.social/post/3lkp2xbeqe227"Generalized mistrust of authority and expertise turns us into epistemological free agents," A.O. Scott writes. "We’re just asking questions, doing our own search engine-optimized investigations, huddling in ad hoc Warren Commissions of our own devising." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/books/review/john-f-kennedy-assassination-conspiracy-theory.html19 Mar 2025 01:49 +0000at://did:plc:57phqtytmvdi2csnrtbsbhow/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkp2xbeqe227https://bsky.app/profile/tinajordan.bsky.social/post/3ljzm7zay2c2zOur critic Jen Szalai reviews the explosive new Facebook memoir by Sarah Wynn Williams: "Not only does she have the storytelling chops to unspool a gripping narrative; she also delivers the goods." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/books/review/careless-people-sarah-wynn-williams.html10 Mar 2025 12:59 +0000at://did:plc:57phqtytmvdi2csnrtbsbhow/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljzm7zay2c2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/tinajordan.bsky.social/post/3ljx3vmuno223In her March column, @sarahweinman.com reviews the new Deanna Raybourn novel, which I am greedily gulping down. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/books/review/new-crime-fiction.html09 Mar 2025 13:02 +0000at://did:plc:57phqtytmvdi2csnrtbsbhow/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljx3vmuno223https://bsky.app/profile/tinajordan.bsky.social/post/3ljkjq4zlis2xSigh. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/books/harper-lee-land-of-sweet-forever.html04 Mar 2025 13:05 +0000at://did:plc:57phqtytmvdi2csnrtbsbhow/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljkjq4zlis2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/tinajordan.bsky.social/post/3ljfqow4pn22kBest piece I have read all week (gift link). https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/us/chronic-disease-us-americans.html?unlocked_article_code=1.004.MTzX.KoDy86B76Dmj&smid=url-share02 Mar 2025 15:26 +0000at://did:plc:57phqtytmvdi2csnrtbsbhow/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljfqow4pn22khttps://bsky.app/profile/tinajordan.bsky.social/post/3lj3ugzhrb22aAs we lean into romance coverage here at the Book Review, I'm delighted to bring you @oliviawaite.com's latest, a queer historical romance starter pack. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/26/books/historical-romance-books-queer-lgbtq.html26 Feb 2025 17:06 +0000at://did:plc:57phqtytmvdi2csnrtbsbhow/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj3ugzhrb22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/tinajordan.bsky.social/post/3liuicb4rpk2sThey look like books, but they're lanterns, lighters, flasks and more. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/books/review/book-shaped-objects.html23 Feb 2025 18:40 +0000at://did:plc:57phqtytmvdi2csnrtbsbhow/app.bsky.feed.post/3liuicb4rpk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/tinajordan.bsky.social/post/3lipv2qafuk25Mere months after the election, we already have a new Michael Wolff book. Nicolas Niarchos reviews: "Will President Trump ... be tempted to light more fires himself, just to see what chaos will ensue? Either way, when the fire trucks come, one thing is certain: Wolff will be hanging off the back." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/books/review/all-or-nothing-michael-wolff.html21 Feb 2025 22:46 +0000at://did:plc:57phqtytmvdi2csnrtbsbhow/app.bsky.feed.post/3lipv2qafuk25https://bsky.app/profile/tinajordan.bsky.social/post/3lioyptefvc2uTony Scott has published another one of his poetry "close reads," and you know how much I love these. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/21/books/gwendolyn-brooks-my-dreams-my-works-sonnet.html21 Feb 2025 14:18 +0000at://did:plc:57phqtytmvdi2csnrtbsbhow/app.bsky.feed.post/3lioyptefvc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/tinajordan.bsky.social/post/3lhyvrhohrs2gHere's a fun way to get your next romance novel recommendation. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/12/books/romance-novel-quiz.html12 Feb 2025 19:27 +0000at://did:plc:57phqtytmvdi2csnrtbsbhow/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhyvrhohrs2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/tinajordan.bsky.social/post/3lhwdzfupb226One of those novels that I just can't get out of my head. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/books/review/stone-yard-devotional-charlotte-wood.html11 Feb 2025 19:04 +0000at://did:plc:57phqtytmvdi2csnrtbsbhow/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhwdzfupb226https://bsky.app/profile/tinajordan.bsky.social/post/3lhj5menlnc25The editors of The New York Times Book Review bring you the best romance novels of 2024, a starter pack of classic romances, our latest reviews, recommendation lists from authors like Ali Hazelwood, books to read after watching your favorite rom-com & much more, all collected on a gorgeous new page. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/books/romance-books.html06 Feb 2025 13:05 +0000at://did:plc:57phqtytmvdi2csnrtbsbhow/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhj5menlnc25https://bsky.app/profile/tinajordan.bsky.social/post/3lhhffd2i2s2bOne of the best things on our new romance page: @oliviawaite.com's classic starter pack. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/05/books/romance-books-love.html05 Feb 2025 20:19 +0000at://did:plc:57phqtytmvdi2csnrtbsbhow/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhhffd2i2s2b