Washington Monthly’s The Reader
Washington Monthly's book site The Reader posts a November 15, 2026 set of reviews, essays, interviews, and notes: Randy Boyagoda pans Chad Harbach's acclaimed campus novel 'The Brightness' as a dangerous meritocratic fantasy, Michael Dirda revisits four early-20th-century dystopias of plutocrats and surveillance states and says they deserve fresh eyes in 2026, and Margaret Atwood picks once-famous books that have slipped below the radar. Reviews of books on Puyi, the Nuremberg trials, Hans Morgenthau, and American plutocracy join the lineup.
