“It Will Outrage As Many Readers As It Delights.” On Joseph Heller’s </em>Catch-22</em>

“It Will Outrage As Many Readers As It Delights.” On Joseph Heller’s Catch-22

A 1961 New York Times Review of Heller’s Classic WWII satire

By Book Marks | November 10, 2021

Eley Williams on Classic Ghost Stories and <em>Goodnight Moon</em> as Avant-Garde Horror

Eley Williams on Classic Ghost Stories and Goodnight Moon as Avant-Garde Horror

Book Recommendations From the Author of The Liar's Dictionary

By Book Marks | November 10, 2021

Danielle Evans on <em>Mrs. Dalloway</em>, Black Vaudeville, and Nella Larsen's <em>Quicksand</em>

Danielle Evans on Mrs. Dalloway, Black Vaudeville, and Nella Larsen's Quicksand

Rapid-fire book recs from the author of The Office of Historical Corrections

By Book Marks | November 8, 2021

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 Gary Shteyngart, Sarah Hall, Ai Weiwei, Paul McCartney, and More

By Book Marks | November 5, 2021

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week (Ron Charles Does Not Like the New Mitch Albom)

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week (Ron Charles Does Not Like the New Mitch Albom)

“Such soggy inspirational literature makes me seasick.”

By Book Marks | November 4, 2021

Here's every Booker Prize winner of the 21st century.

Here's every Booker Prize winner of the 21st century.

By Book Marks | November 3, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • House of Day, House of Night
  • The Award
  • Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
  • Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
  • Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
  • The Six Loves of James I

Kyle Lucia Wu on James Baldwin, Qiu Miaojin, and Brandon Taylor

By Book Marks | November 3, 2021

Shabby, Domestic Comedy? Grown Up Holden Caulfield? Read This Early Review of John Updike’s Rabbit, Run

By Book Marks | November 2, 2021

November’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

By Book Marks | November 2, 2021

Tana French on James Baldwin, <em>Watership Down</em>, and Hating Hawthorne

Tana French on James Baldwin, Watership Down, and Hating Hawthorne

Rapid-fire Book Recs From the Author of The Searcher

By Book Marks | November 1, 2021

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

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

Featuring New Titles by Jonathan Franzen, Elizabeth Strout, John le Carré, Rebecca Solnit, David Sedaris, and More

By Book Marks | October 29, 2021

Here are October’s Best Reviewed Science, Technology, and Nature Books

Here are October’s Best Reviewed Science, Technology, and Nature Books

George Orwell’s Roses, Jane Goodall’s Chimps, Rowan Jacobsen’s Truffle Hounds, and More

By Book Marks | October 28, 2021

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

On New Works by Gary Shteyngart, Mary Gaitskill, Paul Auster, and more

By Book Marks | October 28, 2021

Here Are the Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies of October

Here Are the Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies of October

Featuring W.G. Sebald, Billy Porter, Oscar Wilde, and More

By Book Marks | October 27, 2021

Rax King on <em>Giovanni’s Room</em>, <em>A Little Life</em>, and Susan Choi's Sex Scenes

Rax King on Giovanni’s Room, A Little Life, and Susan Choi's Sex Scenes

Rapid-fire Book Recs From the Author of Tacky

By Book Marks | October 27, 2021

Here Are October’s Best Reviewed Books in History and Politics

Here Are October’s Best Reviewed Books in History and Politics

Featuring a History of Pop Music, a Chronicle of Black Filmmaking, a Counterhistory of Feminism, and More

By Book Marks | October 26, 2021

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