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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

Tara Westover on Rachel Cusk, Jennifer Egan, and <em>Madame Bovary</em>

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

Rapid-fire book recs from the author of Educated

By Book Marks | February 7, 2022

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Zadie Smith on Toni Morrison, Bill McKibben on Bambi, Yiyun Li on Jon McGregor, and More

By Book Marks | February 3, 2022

Tom Cooper on <em>Moby-Dick</em>, Florida Books, and Terrible Sex Scenes

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

Rapid-Fire Book Recs From the Author of Florida Man

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

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • This Is Where the Serpent Lives
  • Lost Lambs
  • Winter: The Story of a Season
  • The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
  • The Hitch
  • Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China

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

By Book Marks | January 26, 2022

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

By Book Marks | January 24, 2022

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

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

Elizabeth McCracken on <em>Anna Karenina</em>, Yiyun Li, and Hating <em>The Velveteen Rabbit</em>

Elizabeth McCracken on Anna Karenina, Yiyun Li, and Hating The Velveteen Rabbit

Rapid-fire Book Recs from the Author of The Souvenir Museum

By Book Marks | January 18, 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 Hanya Yanagihara, Bernard MacLaverty, Jami Attenberg, Carl Bernstein, and more

By Book Marks | January 14, 2022

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Andrea Long Chu on Hanya Yanagihara, Claire Dederer on Jami Attenberg, Louis Bayard on Brian Cox, and more

By Book Marks | January 13, 2022

A Writer with the Heart of a Dog: Early Reviews of Jack London’s <em>The Call of the Wild</em>

A Writer with the Heart of a Dog: Early Reviews of Jack London’s The Call of the Wild

“Jack London seems to possess an intuition of the dog life.”

By Book Marks | January 12, 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 Jenni Fagan, Jean Chen Ho, Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague, Alessandro Barbero, and more

By Book Marks | January 7, 2022

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