The 21st century top-100 list of the New York Times includes much worth praising. Pachinko is a painful and great novel, The Years of Lyndon Johnson painstaking non-fiction. Persepolis is an outstanding graphic novel and Behind the Beautiful Forevers is a moving street-level look at poverty in India.
The Times, though, has blind spots and fails to review many books worth reading. Its reviews of important books often (and unsurprisingly) reflect the mostly secular worldviews of its reviewers—so I’m glad Nadya Williams invited me to let Current readers know where they can access my recommendations.
My reviews of mostly secular books come out on the second Saturday of each month at www.discovery.org/t/olasky-books-newsletter. You can also sign up for an Olasky Books free subscription at https://www.discovery.org/subscribe/, which means you’ll be emailed the latest newsletter each month. My reviews of books focusing on religion go up on the first day of each month at https://www.religionunplugged.com.
Also, if you’re interested in homelessness, my columns on that subject come out every Friday at https://fixhomelessness.org/author/molasky/. And if you want to read some examples of good reporting, I chair a foundation that gives out ten prizes each year: You can read excellent articles by the winners at https://www.zengerhouse.com/zenger-prize-winners.