The 10 Best Book Reviews of 2025

The 10 Best Book Reviews of 2025

“Everyone is enticed into this orgy of analysis, to feast and gorge on information, to go a little mad in the process.”

By Adam Morgan | December 18, 2025

Am I the Asshole For Calling Out Romance Novelists Who Don’t Actually Care About Romance?

Am I the Asshole For Calling Out Romance Novelists Who Don’t Actually Care About Romance?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | December 18, 2025

Burn Harry Burn: Reckoning With My <em>Harry Potter</em> Fandom as a Trans Person

Burn Harry Burn: Reckoning With My Harry Potter Fandom as a Trans Person

Sandy Ernest Allen Confronts J.K. Rowling’s Virulent Transphobia

By Sandy Ernest Allen | December 18, 2025

Elizabeth McCracken on Writing About Writing, At Last

Elizabeth McCracken on Writing About Writing, At Last

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | December 18, 2025

Virginia Woolf Thought Katharine Mansfield Stank Like a “Civet Cat Taken to Streetwalking”

Virginia Woolf Thought Katharine Mansfield Stank Like a “Civet Cat Taken to Streetwalking”

Gerri Kimber on the Literary Legacy of an Early Master of the Short Form

By Gerri Kimber | December 17, 2025

How <em>Ulysses</em> Was Almost Banned By the State of New York

How Ulysses Was Almost Banned By the State of New York

Adam Morgan on Margaret C. Anderson and the Early Fight Against Literary Censorship in America

By Adam Morgan | December 17, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • This Is Where the Serpent Lives
  • Lost Lambs
  • Winter: The Story of a Season
  • The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
  • The Hitch
  • Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China

Remembering DéLana R.A. Dameron

By Imani Perry, Raina León, Garlia Cornelia Jones | December 17, 2025

How Jane Austen’s Family Nurtured Her Early Literary Endeavors

By Kate Evans | December 17, 2025

It’s Harder and Harder to Be a Magazine on the Internet—Please Help

By Jonny Diamond | December 16, 2025

The Best Reviewed Nonfiction of 2025

The Best Reviewed Nonfiction of 2025

Featuring Miriam Toews, Margaret Atwood, James Baldwin, Yiyun Li, and More

By Book Marks | December 16, 2025

The Best Reviewed Fiction of 2025

The Best Reviewed Fiction of 2025

Featuring Lily King, David Szalay, Gish Jen, Han Kang, and More

By Book Marks | December 15, 2025

Seven Holiday Romance Novels to Keep Warm With This Winter

Seven Holiday Romance Novels to Keep Warm With This Winter

Haruka Iwasaki Recommends Hannah Grace, Lana Ferguson, Lucy Score and More

By Haruka Iwasaki | December 12, 2025

Maurice Riordan on Writing Rituals, the Creative Imagination, and His Journey as a Poet

Maurice Riordan on Writing Rituals, the Creative Imagination, and His Journey as a Poet

In Conversation with Peter Mishler

By Peter Mishler | December 12, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Its quivering rhythms mimic those of a slow desert wind, picking up dust, chaff, and the bones of small mammals.”

By Book Marks | December 11, 2025

Did Jane Austen Invent the Wellness Guy?

Did Jane Austen Invent the Wellness Guy?

Chris Cohen on the Self-Optimization Obsessions of Austen’s Male Characters

By Chris Cohen | December 11, 2025

What It Was Like to Publish a Book in This Crazy Year, 2025

What It Was Like to Publish a Book in This Crazy Year, 2025

Maris Kreizman Looks Back at the Year That Was

By Maris Kreizman | December 11, 2025

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