British Royals Past and Present
This week, Kim and Alice chat about the British royals they love (and love to hate), graphic memoirs (comics, not dirty stuff), and new books on Christianity, historical hospitals and Los Angeles.
Follow Up
Bachelor Nation by Amy Kaufman
New Books
The Darkening Age by Catherine Nixey (April 17 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Damnation Island by Stacy Horn (May 15 from Algonquin)
The Mirage Factory by Gary Krist (May 15 from Crown)
Not that Bad, edited by Roxane Gay (May 1 from Harper)
British Royals Past and Present
Elizabeth the Queen by Sally Bedell Smith
Victoria: The Queen by Julia Baird
Elizabeth and Leicester by Sarah Gristwood
Princes at War by Deborah Cadbury
Game of Crowns by Christopher Andersen
Mary, Queen of Scots: A Study in Failure by Jenny Wormald
Graphic Memoirs
Marbles by Ellen Forney
Displacement: A Travelogue by Lucy Knisley
A Bintel Brief by Liana Finck
Rolling Blackouts by Sarah Glidden
Tomboy by Liz Prince
Mentioned briefly and recommended — Maus by Art Spiegelman and Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
What We’re Reading Now
I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong (and his article on gender balance in reporting)
Dear Madam President by Jennifer Palmeri (and her interview on NPR’s It’s Been a Minute podcast)
The Escape of Charles II: After the Battle of Worcester by Richard Ollard
