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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“In this artful and sad novel, forbearance is courage.”

By Book Marks | May 8, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“If Twain belongs to anyone now, it’s the writers making mischief in the structures he left behind.”

By Book Marks | May 1, 2025

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April’s Best Reviewed Fiction

Featuring Katie Kitamura, David Szalay, Laurent Binet, and More

By Book Marks | April 30, 2025

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April’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

Featuring Diarmaid MacCulloch, Robert Crumb, Elaine Pagels, and More

By Book Marks | April 30, 2025

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

Featuring Joan Didion, Marie-Helene Bertino, Emily Henry, and More

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“Why do we need to see writers (or anyone) at their most open and despairing to be convinced that they are also human?”

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“How do we lie to ourselves so convincingly, and what is the cost of those lies?”

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Featuring David Szalay, Elaine Pagels, Joe Dunthorne, and More

By Book Marks | April 4, 2025

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“Szalay has written a novel about the Big Question: about the numbing strangeness of being alive.”

By Book Marks | April 3, 2025

March’s Best Reviewed Fiction

March’s Best Reviewed Fiction

Featuring Karen Russell, Torrey Peters, Laila Lalami, and More

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March’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

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Featuring Helen Garner, Graydon Carter, David Sheff, and More

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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

”Its oxygenated prose minutely alive to the smallest variations in pressure between place and character.”

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

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