5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“A proud belletrist, Koestenbaum shakes against narrative like a vibrator that switches on in its plastic packaging.”

By Book Marks | April 2, 2026

March’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

March’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

Featuring Christopher Clark, Ian Buruma, Tom Junod, and More

By Book Marks | March 27, 2026

March’s Best Reviewed Fiction

March’s Best Reviewed Fiction

Featuring Francis Spufford, Saba Sams, Jordy Rosenberg, and More

By Book Marks | March 27, 2026

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“With minimal skepticism, he platforms schemes that range from the contested and implausible... to the wholly impossible.”

By Book Marks | March 26, 2026

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 Hannah Lillith Assadi, Tara Menon, Ian Buruma, and more

By Book Marks | March 20, 2026

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“A family is always a bit of a fantasy, requiring some realist puncturing. Every good biographer, then, is a problem child.”

By Book Marks | March 19, 2026

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Country People
  • You Won't Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters
  • Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991
  • The Great Wherever
  • A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies
  • The Simp: A Novel Without a Hero

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

By Book Marks | March 13, 2026

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks | March 12, 2026

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

By Book Marks | March 6, 2026

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The beauty and breadth of the landscape stand in counterpoint to the horrors of the human lives playing out upon it.”

By Book Marks | March 5, 2026

February’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

February’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

Featuring Namwali Serpell, Gisèle Pelicot, Richard Holmes, and More

By Book Marks | February 27, 2026

February’s Best Reviewed Fiction

February’s Best Reviewed Fiction

Featuring Lauren Groff, Tayari Jones, Cristina Rivera Garza, and More

By Book Marks | February 27, 2026

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The stories are folksy, a little retro and sensual, with multiple dips into earthy, furtive lesbian lust.”

By Book Marks | February 26, 2026

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 Toni Morrison, Mohammed Hanif, Mark Haddon, and More

By Book Marks | February 20, 2026

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 Allegra Goodman, Richard Holmes, Helle Helle, and More

By Book Marks | February 13, 2026

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“An instant classic of that svelte form: no longer than a rattlesnake’s body and just as explosive.”

By Book Marks | February 12, 2026

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