Book Marks

What Did Critics Think of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road When It First Came Out?

“An exquisitely bleak incantation...” “A little showy, a little glib...”

Sophie Ward on Jane Eyre, Macho Sluts, and To Kill a Mockingbird

Rapid-fire Book Recs From the Author of Love and Other Thought Experiments

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Alexander Chee on E. M. Forster, Judith Butler on The Right to Sex, Dina Nayeri on Rabih Alameddine, and more

When C.S. Lewis Reviewed His Buddy’s Book… The Hobbit

“You cannot anticipate it before you go there, as you cannot forget it once you have gone.”

Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

Booksellers from 6 indies rave about their favorite reads.

Here are the best reviewed books of July.

Here are the first reviews of every Ernest Hemingway novel.

Here are the best reviewed books of the week.