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 Eleanor Catton, Catherine Lacey, Matthew Desmond, Sebastian Barry, and More

By Book Marks | March 31, 2023

How One Young Screenwriter Snagged the Rights to <em>Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.</em>

How One Young Screenwriter Snagged the Rights to Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.

After 50 Years, Judy Blume’s Coming-of-Age Novel Finally Hits the Big Screen

By Amy Paturel | March 31, 2023

How Octavia Butler’s <em>Kindred</em> Became a Novel

How Octavia Butler’s Kindred Became a Novel

Michael Silverblatt Talks with Octavia Butler About Historical Research, Trauma, Touch, and More

By Michael Silverblatt | March 31, 2023

Grant Faulkner on Capturing the Essence of a Short Story

Grant Faulkner on Capturing the Essence of a Short Story

“It’s the writer’s job to capture essences in words.”

By Grant Faulkner | March 31, 2023

FX’s <em>Great Expectations</em> Doesn’t Measure Up

FX’s Great Expectations Doesn’t Measure Up

Steven Knight’s Miniseries Makes Interesting Points About Empire and Womanhood, but They Get Lost in a Sea of Gratuitous Darkness

By Olivia Rutigliano | March 31, 2023

Anne Carson’s <em>Autobiography of Red</em> is Way Funnier Than You Remember

Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red is Way Funnier Than You Remember

Emily Temple Revisits a Masterpiece 25 Years Later

By Emily Temple | March 30, 2023

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Rest of Our Lives
  • Call Me Ishmaelle
  • This Is Where the Serpent Lives
  • Lost Lambs
  • Winter: The Story of a Season
  • The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
  • Departure(s)
  • Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China
  • The Flower Bearers
  • Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood

The 11 Best Book Covers of March

By Emily Temple | March 30, 2023

Exit Strategies: So How Are You Supposed to End a Story?

By Allegra Hyde | March 30, 2023

The Big Door Prize Masters the Art of Comedy-Spiked Pathos

By Alexis Gunderson | March 30, 2023

Ayad Akhtar on the Expectations of Artists

Ayad Akhtar on the Expectations of Artists

The Keynote Address From Last Night's Whiting Awards Ceremony

By Ayad Akhtar | March 30, 2023

Idra Novey: I Didn’t Want to Write an Obituary for Appalachia

Idra Novey: I Didn’t Want to Write an Obituary for Appalachia

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | March 30, 2023

The Annotated Nightstand: What Clint Smith is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Clint Smith is Reading Now and Next

Featuring Kwame Alexander, Ada Limón, Nicole Chung and more

By Diana Arterian | March 30, 2023

The Literature of QAnon: From 4chan to January 6, Will Sommer on Reading the Authors of Conspiracy Theories

The Literature of QAnon: From 4chan to January 6, Will Sommer on Reading the Authors of Conspiracy Theories

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | March 30, 2023

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"A graveside elegy on the edge of the burn pit that used to be—if only aspirationally—a democracy"

By Book Marks | March 30, 2023

Allegra Hyde Offers an Existential Pitch for Saving the Planet

Allegra Hyde Offers an Existential Pitch for Saving the Planet

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | March 30, 2023

Untold Stories: A South Carolina Lowcountry Reading List

Untold Stories: A South Carolina Lowcountry Reading List

Preslaysa Williams Recommends Dubose Heyward, Sue Monk Kidd, Damon L. Fordham, and more

By Preslaysa Williams | March 30, 2023

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