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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Alexandra Kleeman on Sheila Heti, Rachel Khong on Julie Otsuka, Lauren Michele Jackson on Zora Neale Hurston, and more

By Book Marks | February 17, 2022

Read the loveliest moons in literature, in honor of today’s Snow Moon.

Read the loveliest moons in literature, in honor of today’s Snow Moon.

By Katie Yee | February 16, 2022

Deep, Deep Time: On the “Cosmic Realism” of Kathryn Davis

Deep, Deep Time: On the “Cosmic Realism” of Kathryn Davis

Anthony Domestico Offers a Close Reading of an Underappreciated Novelist

By Anthony Domestico | February 16, 2022

“Dialogue is Embarrassing.” Sarah Manguso on Finally Writing a Novel

“Dialogue is Embarrassing.” Sarah Manguso on Finally Writing a Novel

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast

By Thresholds | February 16, 2022

Alex McElroy on R.L. Stine, Casey Plett, and a masterclass of self-deception

Alex McElroy on R.L. Stine, Casey Plett, and a masterclass of self-deception

Rapid-fire book recs from the author of The Atmospherians

By Book Marks | February 16, 2022

How Lewis Carroll Built a World Where Nothing Needs to Make Sense

How Lewis Carroll Built a World Where Nothing Needs to Make Sense

Erin Morgenstern on Why We Return to Alice

By Erin Morgenstern | February 16, 2022

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Mass Mothering
  • Autobiography of Cotton
  • Good People
  • Empire of Madness: Reimagining Western Mental Health Care for Everyone
  • The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet
  • Second Skin: Inside the Worlds of Fetish, Kink, and Deviant Desire

Deeply Flawed Mother Figures of Literature: A Reading List

By Mary Kuryla | February 16, 2022

American Literature is a History of the Nation’s Libraries

By Ilan Stavans | February 16, 2022

On Jessie Redmon Fauset, the Harlem Renaissance Writer Long Overdue for a Resurgence

By Morgan Jerkins | February 16, 2022

15 new books to love this week.

15 new books to love this week.

By Katie Yee | February 15, 2022

“We Get to Be Young Only Once.” On My Life-Changing Discovery of Laurie Colwin

“We Get to Be Young Only Once.” On My Life-Changing Discovery of Laurie Colwin

How Kim Fay Read—and Ate—Her Way Through Home Cooking During Her Formative Years

By Kim Fay | February 15, 2022

On the Feminine Urge to Murder

On the Feminine Urge to Murder

Heather O'Neill Considers Rage and Femininity

By Heather O'Neill | February 15, 2022

The Unspeakable Through the Diminutive: Read a 1986 Review of <em>Maus</em>

The Unspeakable Through the Diminutive: Read a 1986 Review of Maus

The New York Times on Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer-Winning Graphic Novel

By Book Marks | February 15, 2022

Qualities of Magic: On Books You'll Keep Coming Back To

Qualities of Magic: On Books You'll Keep Coming Back To

Kate Gale Recommends Paul Bowles, Ursula K. Le Guin, and More!

By Dr. Kate Gale | February 15, 2022

In the Resurgence of Folk Horror, We Are the Villains

In the Resurgence of Folk Horror, We Are the Villains

Michelle Nijhuis on Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched:
A History of Folk Horror

By Michelle Nijhuis | February 14, 2022

Grace Lavery’s Reading List of Queer Treasures

Grace Lavery’s Reading List of Queer Treasures

What You Need to Know About Harry/Draco Fic, Opera,
and Queer History

By Grace Lavery | February 14, 2022

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