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

From the French Resistance to the Horrors of Hiroshima: Eight Globe-Spanning Books on World War II

From the French Resistance to the Horrors of Hiroshima: Eight Globe-Spanning Books on World War II

Natasha Lester Recommends Ariel Lawhon, Emma Pei Yin, Anne Sebba, and More

By Natasha Lester | May 8, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Jennifer Hope Choi Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Jennifer Hope Choi Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Ross Gay, Isabella Hammad, Chet’la Sebree, and Others

By Diana Arterian | May 8, 2025

Hamilton Nolan on How To Write Op-Eds

Hamilton Nolan on How To Write Op-Eds

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 8, 2025

Poet of the Queer Brotherhood: How William Blake Influenced Oscar Wilde’s Circle

Poet of the Queer Brotherhood: How William Blake Influenced Oscar Wilde’s Circle

Philip Hoare on Paul Nash, W. Graham Robertson, “De Profundis,” and More

By Philip Hoare | May 7, 2025

Asking Toni’s Questions: Decentering Whiteness in Literary Spaces

Asking Toni’s Questions: Decentering Whiteness in Literary Spaces

“It is the discomfort of asking and of making space for the answers...that will allow us to stay in the room together.”

By Rosa Castellano | May 7, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Big Kiss, Bye-Bye
  • Bad Bad Girl
  • The Ten Year Affair
  • Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
  • Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
  • Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution

The Cosmic Library on Dreams and Math in Dostoevsky

By The Cosmic Library | May 7, 2025

Sasha Weiss on Mischief in the Pages

By The Critic and Her Publics | May 6, 2025

The Power of Persuasion: Why Lawyers Love Jane Austen

By Natalie Jenner | May 6, 2025

I Take No Pleasure in Having Written an “Eerily Prescient” Novel

I Take No Pleasure in Having Written an “Eerily Prescient” Novel

Kevin Nguyen on Why We Don’t Need Books to Tell Us About Our Current Political Moment

By Kevin Nguyen | May 6, 2025

Andy Warhol! James Joyce! Josephine Baker! 27 new books out today.

Andy Warhol! James Joyce! Josephine Baker! 27 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | May 6, 2025

Did the Pulitzer Board just overrule the Jury to give Percival Everett the prize?

Did the Pulitzer Board just overrule the Jury to give Percival Everett the prize?

By Drew Broussard | May 5, 2025

Kazuo Ishiguro Reflects on <em>Never Let Me Go</em>, 20 Years Later

Kazuo Ishiguro Reflects on Never Let Me Go, 20 Years Later

On the Decades-Long Creative Process Behind His Most Successful Novel

By Kazuo Ishiguro | May 5, 2025

More Than a Subplot: Five Novels That Explore and Center Female Friendship

More Than a Subplot: Five Novels That Explore and Center Female Friendship

Disha Bose Recommends Elena Ferrante, R.F. Kuang, Sally Rooney, and More

By Disha Bose | May 5, 2025

How Charles Dickens’s Troubled Childhood Influenced His Literary Output

How Charles Dickens’s Troubled Childhood Influenced His Literary Output

Peter Conrad Explores the English Novelist’s Cyclical Vision of Life and Art

By Peter Conrad | May 5, 2025

After the Rooster Crows: Dispatch from a Poet in Exile

After the Rooster Crows: Dispatch from a Poet in Exile

Oliver Baez Bendorf: “There are moments when a place you live stops being livable. Sometimes that arrives slowly, like a leak. Sometimes all at once.”

By Oliver Baez Bendorf | May 5, 2025

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