• Literary Criticism

    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    Featuring Jason Mott, Åsne Seierstad, Elaine Castillo, and More

     
    By Book Marks  August 8, 2025
    Latin American Literature

    A Fantastical Odyssey Through Renaissance Italy: Álvaro Enrigue on Bomarzo

    By Álvaro Enrigue  August 8, 2025
    On Translation

    The Case for Renaming Kafka’s Metamorphosis as The Transformation

    By Mark Harman  August 8, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  August 7, 2025
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Chloe Caldwell Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  August 7, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Barbara Kingsolver on Supporting Appalachian Women Recovering from Addiction

    By Fiction Non Fiction  August 7, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Reading Lists

    Doubles, Glitches, Hallucinations, Dreams: Nine Books that Feature David Lynchian Deja Vu

    By Vanessa Roveto  August 6, 2025
    American Literature

    Why Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland—a Disappointment When It Was Published—is the Novel We Need Right Now

    By Devin Thomas O’Shea  August 5, 2025
    Philosophy

    God-Tier Books: A Personal Library of Holy Scripture

    By Jon Raymond  August 5, 2025
    Jane Austen

    How Would Jane Austen Define an “Accomplished Woman” Today?

    Grace Aldridge on Rereading Jane Austen After the End of Her Marriage 

    By Grace Aldridge  August 8, 2025
    New Books Tuesdays

    Jamaica Kincaid! The invention of a Brontë! Bruce Springsteen! 27 new books out today!

    By Gabrielle Bellot  August 5, 2025
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    What We Can Give Each Other: On Octavia Butler’s “Speech Sounds”

    By Aaron Boehmer  August 4, 2025
    Jane Austen

    What Jane Austen’s Possessions Reveal About Her Literary Ethos

    By Kathryn Sutherland  August 4, 2025
    News and Culture

    A Happy One-Trick Multi-Book Pony: On Writing Novels About Art History

    B.A. Shapiro Follows Her Literary Footsteps Through Storied Museums

    By B.A. Shapiro  August 4, 2025
    literary criticism

    How Witi Ihimaera’s The Whale Rider Helped Introduce Maori Literature to the World

    By Shilo Kino  August 4, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  August 1, 2025
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Robot Ghost Kitchens and Memory Capitalism: August’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

    By Natalie Zutter  August 1, 2025
    Children's Literature

    Taco Knights, A Mexican Romeo and Juliet, Goats: Ten Children’s Books to Read in August

    Caroline Carlson Recommends Daniela Kulot, Megan Maynor, Hailey Alcaraz, and More

    By Caroline Carlson  August 1, 2025
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Amy Silverberg Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  August 1, 2025
    New Poetry

    Unimprovable Penis-Forward Poems and More! Seven Poetry Books to Read This August

    By Christopher Spaide  August 1, 2025
    Paperbacks

    Audre Lorde! Elizabeth Strout! Oscar Wilde! 25 books out in paperback this August.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  August 1, 2025
    Politics

    On Promising Young Women (and the Nameless Men Who Get in Their Way)

    Meg Pillow Unpacks an Archetype and Tells Her Own Story

    By Meg Pillow  July 31, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Vanity Fair’s Dan Adler on Jeffrey Epstein and What Ghislaine Maxwell Knows

    By Fiction Non Fiction  July 31, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    July’s Best Reviewed Fiction

    By Dan Sheehan  July 31, 2025
    Queerness

    A Cosmic Bond: Five Essential Books on Queer Black Friendship

    By m. mick powell  August 5, 2025
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