Over on Book Riot, a love letter to the British library.
This month, the Guardian Reading Group will be discussing two Steinbeck novels — Cannery Row and Tortilla Flat, “separate takes on the American depression of the 1930s, full of warmth and humour, written 10 years apart”.
The Guardian Books podcast features a discussion of empathy with Peter Bazalgette and Sara Baume.
Move over, hygge: the next year’s perhaps-ever-so-slightly manufactured lifestyle trend in books is lagom.
K Whitehead has won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Underground Railroad, and the BBC’s Front Row discusses the win.