This is very appropriately-timed given my post on Americanah earlier this week. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's second novel Half of a Yellow Sun got a movie adaptation that premieres this summer, and the trailer dropped earlier this week. Half is about the Biafra War, so prepare yourself for lots of Mad Men-era fashions and tears. I just started the book recently and I'm already in love with it.
Edward St. Aubyn has been everywhere this week, promoting his new book Lost for Words. This is the only interview you need to bother with, and Terry Gross is terrific as ever.
This is not a book, per se, but Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote the feature article in this month's Atlantic, and his "The Case for Reparations: an intellectual autopsy" is as thoroughly-researched and thoughtfully written as any good non-fiction. He is one of my favorite journalists and I'm going to have to get a copy of his memoir The Beautiful Struggle.
Finally, this is also not a book, but this is a Beyonce fan blog as much as it is a book blog, so why not watch the On the Run Tour official trailer to get your holiday weekend off to a good start?