MILLER’S BOOK REVIEW 📚

MILLER’S BOOK REVIEW 📚

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Read Until You Understand: A Guide to Black Literature and History
21 Essays on Black Literature as Liberation
 • Joel J Miller
Is the Nonfiction Book Crisis for Real?
And Are Podcasts to Blame? The Panic Makes for a Good Story. But the Numbers Tell a Different Tale
 • Joel J Miller
The Novel That Kept a British Prime Minister Up All Night
Wilkie Collins’s ‘The Woman in White’ Paved the Way for Modern Suspense Novels—And Then We Mostly Forgot
 • Joel J Miller
Open Thread: What Book Would You Live In?
Narnia, the Yorkshire Dales, New Mexico, Corfu? What’s Your Destination?
 • Joel J Miller
It’s Books All the Way Down!
My Favorite Books about Books: A Reading List for True Bibliophiles
 • Joel J Miller
How Long Should This Sentence Be? Bad Question
Pardon Me While I Lodge a Complaint
 • Joel J Miller

January 2026

Never Quite Home: 2 Incomplete Answers for a World in Flux
Dueling Dystopias: Reviewing Yoko Tawada’s ‘Scattered All Over the Earth’ Trilogy and ‘The Emissary’
 • Joel J Miller
We Almost Lost the Statue of Liberty, and Other Misadventures in Maintenance
Reviewing Stewart Brand’s ‘Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One’
 • Joel J Miller
The Terrible Books of Terrible Men
My Conversation with Daniel Kalder on What He Learned While Reading Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Gaddafi, and Other Prolific Despots
 • Joel J Miller
The Beautiful Mess of Steinbeck’s ‘East of Eden’
When a Novelist Attempts to Write Scripture
 • Joel J Miller
Chasing My Hat Through 12 Classic Novels
Read Along with My 2026 Reading Plan—and the Tenuous Theory Holding It Together
 • Joel J Miller
The Ancient Roman Guide to Building Your Personal Library
6 Ways to Assemble an Enviable Book Collection in a World Long Before Amazon
 • Joel J Miller
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