Hi @here, welcome to another month of Bazaar Book Chat! This June we read The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong. The book follows the life of Hai, a 20-year-old who lives in a Connecticut town ...

Ocean Vuong’s dark, poetic novel takes us on a journey through time, loss, trauma, and the little acts of kindness that help us heal ...

The author of The Emperor of Gladness on his relationship to ideas of success, the anxiety of newness, and how literary fiction is about safe lives even though war is what actually haunts us ...

The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, July 27, 2025, including hardcover and paperback ...

Sarah Ferguson presents Australia's premier daily current affairs program, delivering agenda-setting public affairs ...

The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, June 29, 2025, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.

Ocean Vuong was just two when his family fled post-war Vietnam and came to the US. He only learned to read and write English at age 11—the first in hi ...

The relevance of the author was challenged (replaced by the critic), as was the text (replaced by theory). The novel as story ...

When John F. Kennedy became the president of the United States in 1961, his wife, Jackie Kennedy Onassis, made sure someone in the West Wing was on her side. The new book JFK: Public, Private, Secret ...

The Book of Flaco,” by David Gessner. “The Serviceberry,” by Robin Wall Kimmerer. “The Frozen River,” by Ariel Lawhon. “Demon Copperhead,” by Barbara Kingsolver. “It’s Always Been Me,” by Megan Walrod ...

Gibson, a celebrated poet and performance artist who through their verse explored gender identity, politics and their 4-year ...