The Most Exciting Reads Of Winter/Spring 2021

Including a new Jhumpa Lahiri, a “Great Gatsby” retelling, and several novels about witches

Feeling overwhelmed and verklempt about the year’s reading material. “A Brace of Full-grown Puppies: or My Dog and Me,” 1807, Thomas Rowlandson

I have consistently, in times of great distress or even merely to get through annoying circumstances, depended upon escaping into a novel to get through it. 2021 will be another heavy year; there will be battles to fight and hope to…