Fussy’s favorites: Week of August 15, 2021

It’s easy to miss the occasional post or two online, so we’ve rounded up some of the highlights from our reader blog this week.  

Out of this world 

• Here are NPR's best sci-fi and fantasy books of the past decade 

• Read an excerpt from an Octavia E. Butler biography

LeVar Burton 

• LeVar Burton will host the National Book Festival's TV special 

• Survey: Jeopardy! fans liked LeVar Burton best

Scandals 

• Instagram account changes name over criticism from So You Want to Talk About Race fans 

• Controversial comments cost author a prize ceremony, but not the award 

• Book about a child with same-sex parents makes its way to Russia

Politics 

• Bob Woodward reveals his third Trump book, Peril 

• Author Khaled Hosseini shares his hopes and fears for Afghanistan

Celebrities 

• Soccer star Megan Rapinoe launches a Literati book club

• Bestseller updates: Sarah Ferguson and Ted Cruz