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 new titles by Jhumpa Lahiri, Emma Straub, Benjamin Myers, Maggie Shipstead, and more

By Book Marks | May 20, 2022

Octavia Butler’s <em> Xenogenesis</em> and the Erotics of Power

Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis and the Erotics of Power

This Week on the Queers at the End of the World Podcast

By Queers at the End of the World | May 20, 2022

Brian Alan Ellis on Making “Garden Variety Pain” Readable and Unique

Brian Alan Ellis on Making “Garden Variety Pain” Readable and Unique

In Conversation with Kirsten Reneau for the Micro Podcast

By Micro Podcast | May 20, 2022

Khan Wong on Hula Hooping, Asexuality, and Creating the Universe of His Debut Novel

Khan Wong on Hula Hooping, Asexuality, and Creating the Universe of His Debut Novel

In Conversation with Rob Wolf on the New Books Network

By New Books Network | May 20, 2022

Annie Harnett on What Living in a Cemetery Meant to Her Novel

Annie Harnett on What Living in a Cemetery Meant to Her Novel

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | May 19, 2022

Jhumpa Lahiri: Why Is Italo Calvino So Beloved Outside Italy?

Jhumpa Lahiri: Why Is Italo Calvino So Beloved Outside Italy?

On the Translatability and “Secret Essence” of Calvino’s Language

By Jhumpa Lahiri | May 19, 2022

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • House of Day, House of Night
  • The Award
  • Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
  • Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
  • Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
  • The Six Loves of James I

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks | May 19, 2022

The Spirit of Ukrainian Resistance: Five Poems by Marjana Savka

By Literary Hub | May 18, 2022

How Greenwich Village Bohemians Found Their Way to Provincetown

By John Taylor Williams | May 18, 2022

Looking at Willa Cather’s Lesbian Partnership and Domestic World

Looking at Willa Cather’s Lesbian Partnership and Domestic World

The Lesser-Told Story of Cather and Edith Lewis

By Melissa Homestead | May 18, 2022

Mary Laura Philpott on Why Structure Is Always Story

Mary Laura Philpott on Why Structure Is Always Story

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | May 18, 2022

You Can’t Have Creativity Without Boredom

You Can’t Have Creativity Without Boredom

Aaron Angello on the Stillness of the Imaginative Mind

By Aaron Angello | May 18, 2022

Virginia Hamilton and the History of Ghosts in Black Literature

Virginia Hamilton and the History of Ghosts in Black Literature

This Week on the NewberyTart Podcast

By NewberyTart | May 18, 2022

Reclaiming Power Over One’s Own Story: Aminatta Forna on Abdulrazak Gurnah

Reclaiming Power Over One’s Own Story: Aminatta Forna on Abdulrazak Gurnah

Remarks From the PEN World Voices Festival opening night

By Aminatta Forna | May 17, 2022

19 new books to savor this week.

19 new books to savor this week.

By Katie Yee | May 17, 2022

Spending Time in Joy Williams’s Celestial Waiting Rooms

Spending Time in Joy Williams’s Celestial Waiting Rooms

Nicole Miller on the Writer's Attention to the Boundary Between Being and Non-Being

By Nicole Miller | May 17, 2022

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