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

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

From the November 6, 1960 Edition of the New York Times

By Book Marks | November 2, 2021

November’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

November’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Featuring Magic and Queerness, a SFF Icon’s Take on Climate Collapse, a Pioneering Work of Silkpunk, and More

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

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Pelican Child: Stories
  • Languages of Home: Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives 1975-2025
  • On the Calculation of Volume (Book III)
  • The Ferryman and His Wife
  • Empire of Orgasm: Sex, Power, and the Downfall of a Wellness Cult
  • Mexico: A 500-Year History

Here Are the Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies of October

By Book Marks | October 27, 2021

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

By Book Marks | October 27, 2021

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

By Book Marks | October 26, 2021

AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of October

AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of October

A Month of Literary Listening

By Book Marks | October 26, 2021

Elaine Feeney Recommends John McGahern, Ralph Ellison, and <em>Black Beauty</em>

Elaine Feeney Recommends John McGahern, Ralph Ellison, and Black Beauty

Rapid-Fire Book Recs From the Author of As You Were

By Book Marks | October 25, 2021

Strout, Solnit, Porter: Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Strout, Solnit, Porter: Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring new titles from Elizabeth Strout, Anthony Horowitz, Rebecca Solnit, Billy Porter, and more

By Book Marks | October 22, 2021

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Jennifer Egan on Elizabeth Strout, Rumaan Alam on Jonathan Franzen, and more

By Book Marks | October 21, 2021

Chelsea G. Summers on Anaïs Nin, <em>Dracula</em>, and <em>The Bloody Chamber</em>

Chelsea G. Summers on Anaïs Nin, Dracula, and The Bloody Chamber

Rapid-fire Book Recs from the Author of A Certain Hunger

By Book Marks | October 20, 2021

TaraShea Nesbit on Tove Jansson, <em>Matilda</em>, and <em>The Autobiography of Malcolm X</em>

TaraShea Nesbit on Tove Jansson, Matilda, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Rapid-fire book recs from the author of Beheld

By Book Marks | October 19, 2021

Check out the original 1851 reviews of <em>Moby-Dick</em>.

Check out the original 1851 reviews of Moby-Dick.

By Book Marks | October 18, 2021

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