My review for The New York Review of Books of The Hypocrite, a delightfully wily and humane novel by Jo nybooks.com/articles/2024/…

realclearbooks.com Friday reads: Peter Savodnik for The Free Press, Bailey Trela for Cleveland Review of Books, marianela d’aprile for Jacobin, Julius Taranto for The New York Review of Books, Katherine Dee 🐬/acc for The Critic, Maggie Phillips for arc magazine, Rachel Kleinfeld for Persuasion, and many others.

Julius Taranto (Julius Taranto) on Jo Hamya’s The Hypocrite, a social novel complicated by the author’s “insightful, specific descriptions.” go.nybooks.com/3zIpahL

Jo Hamya’s novel The Hypocrite “is wise about art and writing, tender about family and the bewildering march of time, and smart about the ways cultural conflicts touch individual lives.” —Julius Taranto go.nybooks.com/4dJHhlb

“At once ironic and humane, [Jo Hamya’s new novel] trades most satisfyingly on tragedies and comedies of self-delusion...and the inevitability that we will get others even more wrong.” —Julius Taranto go.nybooks.com/3BK6vTa

Terribly chuffed to be included

Ditto

A new one, with special thanks to the excellent Helen Rouner

the stars say it's time for another reading Verso Books Bailey Trela Jake Romm Julius Taranto @maddiecrum molly dektar (CRB writers + subscribers: invites to come on friday)

There is great stuff here and there will be much more

It’s possible if you’re a visionary like me

My somewhat delayed essay about Becca Rothfeld’s book from last year, over at The Metropolitan Review metropolitanreview.org/p/toward-a-sor…

realclearbooks.com Wednesday reads: Julius Taranto for The Metropolitan Review, julia kornberg for Poetry Foundation, River Page for The Free Press, Ben Sixsmith for The Critic, Alana Pockros for The Point Magazine, and many others.

NYC: Come out next Thur, 3/20 for a live taping of the reason Interview with Leigh Stein & Julius Taranto abt satire in the age of Biden, Trump, Elon Musk, et al. In 1961(!), Philip Roth declaimed that reality had become too unreal for novelists to capture! What can artists

March 20, in NYC, Nick Gillespie Leigh Stein and I will decide, once and for all time, when laughing at a book is (a) acceptable or (b) mandatory. Attend if you want to stay on the right side of the law. eventbrite.com/e/reason-speak…

Julius Taranto Nick Gillespie when publishers mail me books I can’t laugh at, it’s like, you call this a book?

Is Joe Rogan today's answer to Marcel Proust? The answer might surprise you. New reason Interview is live with Leigh Stein & Julius Taranto talking the return of satire, free speech, and how new media empowers us all. reason.com/podcast/2025/0…

A profound question that only podcasts are equipped to answer

There are no material differences

On today's reason Roundtable, I recommend novels by Leigh Stein Julius Taranto Lexi Freiman and Neal Stephenson (The Big U!). And that's arguably the *least* interesting part of our weekly show. Subscribe now, receive automatically when posted this PM reason.com/podcasts/the-r…