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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The grief is stirred in slowly. It’s a sickroom meditation; the author becomes a stranger in a strange land.”

By Book Marks | September 18, 2025

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 Elizabeth Gilbert, Sarah Moss, Stephen Greenblatt, and More

By Book Marks | September 12, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Anyone making the case for Hiroshima and Nagasaki’s annihilation then is making the case for our annihilation now.”

By Book Marks | September 11, 2025

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 Rabih Alameddine, Arundhati Roy, Patrick Ryan, and More

By Book Marks | September 5, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“A monument to the vapidity and vulgarity of the culture that incubated it.”

By Book Marks | September 4, 2025

August’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

August’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

Featuring Bruce Springsteen, James Baldwin, the Iranian Revolution, and More

By Book Marks | August 29, 2025

Best Reviewed
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  • Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word, and Me
  • Contrapposto
  • Earth 7
  • The Traveler: One Man's Quest for Humanity from the South Seas to Revolutionary Paris
  • Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America

August’s Best Reviewed Fiction

By Book Marks | August 29, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks | August 28, 2025

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

By Book Marks | August 22, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“These and 11 other pieces ventriloquize a chorus of white American grotesques across the sociopolitical spectrum.”

By Book Marks | August 21, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The author is a professional contrarian, which pretty much means she can bounce off others to naysay whenever so moved.”

By Book Marks | August 14, 2025

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 Jason Mott, Åsne Seierstad, Elaine Castillo, and More

By Book Marks | August 8, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Dystopian novels are not merely the expression of vivid imaginations, they are often warnings about what’s to come.”

By Book Marks | August 7, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“It’s the best vaccination against 1970s nostalgia I’ve ever received.”

By Book Marks | August 1, 2025

July’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

July’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

Featuring Love at Sea, Amelia Earhart, the Roma, and More

By Book Marks | July 31, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“If Vivian Gornick wrote fiction, it might look something like this.”

By Book Marks | July 30, 2025

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