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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks

Bernd Heinrich on His Life in the Maine Woods

By Bernd Heinrich

My Friend Won’t Stop Sending Me Writing and It’s Driving Me Crazy: Am I the Literary Asshole?

By Kristen Arnett

A DIY Literary Education: How Zines Taught Me To Be a Novelist

By Jeff Miller

The Craft Challenges of Writing Political Fiction

By Abigail Savitch-Lew

From Birdsong to Sheep’s Eyes: How Nature Helps Us Tell Time

By Cathy Haynes

Caroline Bicks on Stephen King’s Archives of Horror

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Are Shakespeare’s Commas Really That Important?

By Daniel Hahn

The Power of Prophecy, from Apollo to AI

By Carissa Véliz

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Have We Entertained Ourselves Into a State of Emergency?

By Megan Garber

A Poem by Christopher Kondrich

By Christopher Kondrich

Pollinating Our Stories: What Honeybees Taught Me About Writing

By Eileen Garvin

Becca Rothfeld (with Herman Melville and John Updike)

By The Writers Institute

On the Crazy 1963 Tour That Established the Rolling Stones’ Bad Boy Image

By Bob Spitz

Why We All Hate the Word “Moist” So Much

By Valerie Fridland

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The Best International Fiction of April 2026

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The Best Psychological Thrillers of April 2026

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5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

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On the Dark Arts of Writing Dangerously (and Marriage, and Life in L.A.)

By Luke Goebel

The Annotated Nightstand: What Rachel Khong is Reading Now, And Next

By Diana Arterian

Polly Barton on Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s Hell of Solitude

By Polly Barton

This Week in Literary History: Mae West is Sentenced to Ten Days in Jail for Obscenity

By Literary Hub

On the Systematic Annihilation of Gaza’s Educational Future

By Taqwa Ahmed Alwawi

Of the Many Types of Roman Gladiator, Some Were Definitely Women

By Harry Sidebottom

Rasputin: Fraud, Mystic, Womanizer, Prophet... Or All of the Above?

By Antony Beevor

God Bless the Pill: Meet the Devout Catholic Who Invented Oral Contraception

By Samira K. Mehta

Of the Many Types of Roman Gladiator, Some Were Definitely Women

By Harry Sidebottom