Another fall, another satirical novel from Christopher Buckley. This year he turns his wit-powered pen to the legal world with Supreme Courtship, which he jokingly promises will be his only court satire.
Another fast read will be Stephen Hunter’s new thriller, Night of Thunder, again starring Bob Lee Swagger, the character played by Mark Wahlberg in the movie Shooter.
Novelist Porter Shreve’s semiautobiographical When the White House Was Ours is set in a DC alternative school during the Carter administration and the national bicentennial—an era Shreve recalls from growing up in Washington. He got so inspired at the time that he painted his bedroom red, white, and blue.
On the nonfiction front, New York Times diplomatic correspondent Helene Cooper is out with The House at Sugar Beach, a memoir of her childhood in Liberia, which ended when a coup forced her family to flee after her uncle was killed, her father wounded, and her mother raped. Two decades later, she returned to the continent to see the foster sister she had left behind.
Closer to home, Pulitzer finalist Philip Dray’sCapitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen is a history of an often overlooked chapter. The stories of men like Hiram Revels of Mississippi, the first black senator, are all the more powerful from some 140 years before Barack Obama began his presidential quest.
New Books by Buckley and Hunter
Another fall, another satirical novel from Christopher Buckley. This year he turns his wit-powered pen to the legal world with Supreme Courtship, which he jokingly promises will be his only court satire.
Another fast read will be Stephen Hunter’s new thriller, Night of Thunder, again starring Bob Lee Swagger, the character played by Mark Wahlberg in the movie Shooter.
Novelist Porter Shreve’s semiautobiographical When the White House Was Ours is set in a DC alternative school during the Carter administration and the national bicentennial—an era Shreve recalls from growing up in Washington. He got so inspired at the time that he painted his bedroom red, white, and blue.
On the nonfiction front, New York Times diplomatic correspondent Helene Cooper is out with The House at Sugar Beach, a memoir of her childhood in Liberia, which ended when a coup forced her family to flee after her uncle was killed, her father wounded, and her mother raped. Two decades later, she returned to the continent to see the foster sister she had left behind.
Closer to home, Pulitzer finalist Philip Dray’s Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen is a history of an often overlooked chapter. The stories of men like Hiram Revels of Mississippi, the first black senator, are all the more powerful from some 140 years before Barack Obama began his presidential quest.
More>> Capital Comment Blog | News & Politics | Society Photos
Most Popular in News & Politics
What It Felt Like for a Virginia Marching Band to Win Metallica’s Contest
Meet the 2023 Washingtonians of the Year
What’s IN and OUT in DC Restaurant Trends for 2024
Introducing 8 of DC’s Most Stylish
Washingtonian Magazine
March 2024: Cool Jobs
View IssueSubscribe
Follow Us on Social
Follow Us on Social
Related
Mary Timony on Her Emotional New Album, “Untame the Tiger”
The Beatles in DC: A New Exhibit in Maryland Looks Back on Early Beatlemania
Northern Virginia High School Wins Metallica’s Marching Band Competition
How Noochie’s Porch Became One of DC’s Hottest Venues
More from News & Politics
Megan Thee Stallion and Gunna Will Perform at Broccoli City Festival
I Toured Metro’s “Newly Renovated” Bathrooms. Here’s What I Found.
A New Record Label Documents DC’s Most Challenging Sounds
More High-Tech Public Bathrooms Are Coming to DC This Spring
When Jackie Kennedy Interviewed My Mom for Her Column
“Manhunt,” Apple TV+’s Limited Series About the Lincoln Assassination, Premieres Friday
Metro Police Can Now Issue Fines and Make Arrests for Fare Evasion in DC
Meet the Kensington Couple Who Broke a Guinness Record Attending Concerts