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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Alexandra Kleeman on Sheila Heti, Rachel Khong on Julie Otsuka, Lauren Michele Jackson on Zora Neale Hurston, and more

By Book Marks | February 17, 2022

Alex McElroy on R.L. Stine, Casey Plett, and a masterclass of self-deception

Alex McElroy on R.L. Stine, Casey Plett, and a masterclass of self-deception

Rapid-fire book recs from the author of The Atmospherians

By Book Marks | February 16, 2022

The Unspeakable Through the Diminutive: Read a 1986 Review of <em>Maus</em>

The Unspeakable Through the Diminutive: Read a 1986 Review of Maus

The New York Times on Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer-Winning Graphic Novel

By Book Marks | February 15, 2022

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

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

New Titles by Sarah Manguso, Heather Havrilesky, Chuck Klosterman, Sarah Gran, and More

By Book Marks | February 11, 2022

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Merve Emre on Love in Ulysses, Frank Guan on Chuck Klosterman’s Ode to the 90s, and More

By Book Marks | February 10, 2022

The Voice of the Sea Speaks to the Soul: </br>On Kate Chopin’s <em>The Awakening</em>

The Voice of the Sea Speaks to the Soul:
On Kate Chopin’s The Awakening

An 1899 Review of Chopin’s Iconic Early Feminist Novel

By Book Marks | February 8, 2022

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  • Departure(s)
  • Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China
  • The Flower Bearers
  • Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood

Tara Westover on Rachel Cusk, Jennifer Egan, and Madame Bovary

By Book Marks | February 7, 2022

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks | February 3, 2022

Tom Cooper on Moby-Dick, Florida Books, and Terrible Sex Scenes

By Book Marks | February 2, 2022

February’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

February’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Alternate-Universe Road Trips, Haunted Spaceships, Pulpy Gunslingers, and More!

By Book Marks | February 1, 2022

AudioFile’s Best <br>Audiobooks of January

AudioFile’s Best
Audiobooks of January

The month in literary listening

By Book Marks | January 31, 2022

Jamie Harrison on <em>Train Dreams</em>, <em>Harriet the Spy</em>, and <em>One Hundred Years of Solitude</em>

Jamie Harrison on Train Dreams, Harriet the Spy, and One Hundred Years of Solitude

Rapid-fire book recs from the author of The Center of Everything

By Book Marks | January 26, 2022

Kirstin Valdez Quade on Fleur Jaeggy, <em>Middlemarch</em>, and Sarah Waters Sex Scenes

Kirstin Valdez Quade on Fleur Jaeggy, Middlemarch, and Sarah Waters Sex Scenes

Rapid-Fire Book Recs From the Author of The Five Wounds

By Book Marks | January 24, 2022

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

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

Featuring New Titles by Brian Cox, Bernardine Evaristo, Sequoia Nagamatsu, Lea Ypi, and More

By Book Marks | January 21, 2022

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

On New Books by Zora Neale Hurston, Jahn Darnielle, Bernardine Evaristo, and More

By Book Marks | January 20, 2022

The Rapturous Love of Patricia Highsmith’s <em>Carol</em>

The Rapturous Love of Patricia Highsmith’s Carol

A Classic Review of Highsmith’s Groundbreaking Lesbian Romance Originally Published as The Price of Salt in 1952

By Book Marks | January 19, 2022

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