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The Best Reviewed Books </br>of the Month

The Best Reviewed Books
of the Month

Featuring New Titles by Kazuo Ishiguro, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Melissa Febos, Walter Isaacson, and more

By Book Marks | March 31, 2021

Ten Savage Insults From Literary Icons

Ten Savage Insults From Literary Icons

Writers, Indeed, Can Be Mean

By Literary Hub | March 31, 2021

Revisiting <em>Speedboat</em> in Search of a New York City That Never Really Existed

Revisiting Speedboat in Search of a New York City That Never Really Existed

Emily Temple Gives in to the Pandemic-Induced Nostalgia

By Emily Temple | March 30, 2021

Gabriela Garcia on the Interplay Between Literature and Class Consciousness

Gabriela Garcia on the Interplay Between Literature and Class Consciousness

The Author of Of Women and Salt Talks to Jane Ciabattari

By Jane Ciabattari | March 30, 2021

Sherry Turkle on AI and the Perils of Pretend Empathy

Sherry Turkle on AI and the Perils of Pretend Empathy

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on the Keen On Podcast

By Keen On | March 30, 2021

How Gloria Naylor Captures Love in <em>The Women of <br>Brewster Place</em>

How Gloria Naylor Captures Love in The Women of
Brewster Place

Tyrese L. Coleman Guests on the Lit Century Podcast
with Sandra Newman and Catherine Nichols

By Lit Century | March 30, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Sleuth-Hound: The Case of the Real Sherlock Holmes
  • Emperor of Nothing: The Making of Larry David
  • I Can't Stop Thinking about Horses and Sex
  • Queen of Lombard Street
  • Paradise Burns
  • Doppelgänger
  • Hanging and Burning: A King Oliver Novel
  • Our Arab: On Longing, Belonging, and Hope
  • The Turning of Sally-Mae

Reckoning with Nabokov’s Classic, Controversial Lolita

By History of Literature | March 29, 2021

A Novel Life: On the Literary and Political Legacy of
Edward Said

By Timothy Brennan | March 29, 2021

How Ramona Quimby Taught a Generation of Girls to Embrace Brashness

By Rachel Vorona Cote | March 27, 2021

When Dostoevsky Hit the St. Petersburg Literary Scene

When Dostoevsky Hit the St. Petersburg Literary Scene

Alex Christofi on the Great Russian Writer's Struggle with Fame and Insecurity

By Alex Christofi | March 26, 2021

How the Tragic Literary Woman Became a Figure of Fascination

How the Tragic Literary Woman Became a Figure of Fascination

Kelsey Osgood on the Life of Vivien Eliot and a Misguided Historical Narrative That Won't Go Away

By Kelsey Osgood | March 26, 2021

Returning to Riva: Close Reading a Little-Known Short Story by Franz Kafka

Returning to Riva: Close Reading a Little-Known Short Story by Franz Kafka

Daniel Heller-Roazen on Fleeting Narrators, Disappearing Text, and "The Hunter Gracchus"

By Daniel Heller-Roazen | March 26, 2021

P. Scott Cunningham on Miami's Poetry Scene

P. Scott Cunningham on Miami's Poetry Scene

In Conversation with Mitchell Kaplan on The Literary Life Podcast

By The Literary Life | March 26, 2021

Introducing Our Latest Podcast, <em>Finnegan and Friends</em>

Introducing Our Latest Podcast, Finnegan and Friends

A New Five-Part Series on the Most Mystifying Book Ever Written

By The Cosmic Library | March 25, 2021

Cancellation or Consequences? Meredith Talusan and Matt Gallagher on Accountability in Literature

Cancellation or Consequences? Meredith Talusan and Matt Gallagher on Accountability in Literature

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | March 25, 2021

Poetic Language and the Science of Rediscovery in <em>One Hundred Years of Solitude</em>

Poetic Language and the Science of Rediscovery in One Hundred Years of Solitude

Angus Fletcher on What García Márquez Understood About Forgetting and Relearning

By Angus Fletcher | March 24, 2021

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