A peek at what’s on tap in the Independent this week.
Before the Gilded Age
By Mark L. Goldstein
Meet the most noteworthy financier you’ve never heard of.
Washington’s Gay General
By Josh Trujillo and Levi Hastings
A queer Revolutionary War hero gets his glorious due.
Mr Iyer Goes to War
By Ryan Lobo
This splendid novel set in modern-day India tips its hat to a tilting-at-windmills classic.
The Deaf Poets Society
By Vanessa Mallory Kotz
Enjoy a reading and exhibition opening at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, MD, on Feb. 26th.
The Fortunate Ones: A Novel
By Ellen Umansky
A riveting exploration of love and loss in a quest to find a missing work of art.
How America Lost Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft
By Edward Jay Epstein
Is the infamous leaker a patriot or pariah? A veteran author tries to untangle the truth.
A soliloquy from the previously unborn narrator of Ian McEwan’s Nutshell.
Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail
By Jonathan Chait
A mostly positive appraisal of the 44th president’s time in office.
In the war of ideas, truth-dodging pols tend to value intentions over probabilities.
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