Fussy’s favorites: Week of August 22, 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.  

Releases soon and distant 

• Police officer backs out of Breonna Taylor book deal 

• Paul McCartney's new book will include unrecorded Beatles lyrics 

• Tsitsi Dangarembga is contributing to the Future Library

What influencers want you to read 

• Oprah Winfrey picks another debut novel for her book club 

• Columnist: Fall 2021 is turning out to be a cornucopia of books

Deep dives 

• Why the English language doesn't have an academy 

• The real-life book thief 

• Librarian finds rare copy of The New Yorker’s Hiroshima issue