The 10 Best Book Reviews </br>of 2020

The 10 Best Book Reviews
of 2020

Adam Morgan Picks Parul Sehgal on Raven Leilani, Merve Emre on Lewis Carroll, and more

By Adam Morgan | December 21, 2020

On the e.e. cummings Christmas Poem

On the e.e. cummings Christmas Poem "little tree"

And How Its Tweeness Manages to Transcend Holiday Kitsch

By J. Alison Rosenblitt | December 21, 2020

Lorna Dee Cervantes on Allen Ginsberg and the Interplay Between Beat and<br> Chicano Poetry

Lorna Dee Cervantes on Allen Ginsberg and the Interplay Between Beat and
Chicano Poetry

politics of identity as irony."">"To be a Chicanao poet is to be dealing with the
politics of identity as irony."

By Lorna Dee Cervantes | December 21, 2020

Rewriting the American Canon with <em>The Book of Firsts</em>

Rewriting the American Canon with The Book of Firsts

This Week on the History of Literature Podcast

By History of Literature | December 21, 2020

The Best Reviewed Graphic<br> Literature of 2020

The Best Reviewed Graphic
Literature of 2020

Featuring Adrian Tomine, Joe Sacco, Lauren Redniss,
Derf Backderf, and more

By Book Marks | December 18, 2020

The Best Reviewed Literature in Translation of 2020

The Best Reviewed Literature in Translation of 2020

Featuring Elena Ferrante, Isabel Allende, Sayaka Murata,
Samanta Schweblin, and more

By Book Marks | December 18, 2020

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945
  • Under Water
  • Paradiso 17
  • The Plans I Have for You
  • In Search of Now: The Science of the Present Moment
  • Stephen Sondheim: Art Isn't Easy

Rabih Alameddine's Year in Reading: Poetry Edition

By Rabih Alameddine | December 17, 2020

The Austrian Writer Whose Forgotten Plays Inspired His Greatest Work of Fiction

By Genese Grill | December 17, 2020

Interpreter of Maladies: On Virginia Woolf's Writings About Illness
and Disability

By Gabrielle Bellot | December 16, 2020

H.M. Naqvi: My Covid Year<br> in Reading

H.M. Naqvi: My Covid Year
in Reading

Finding Comfort in a World of Books

By H.M. Naqvi | December 16, 2020

How the 2016 Election Led to Lyssa Kay Adams's Bromance Book Club

How the 2016 Election Led to Lyssa Kay Adams's Bromance Book Club

This Week from the Reading Women Podcast

By Reading Women | December 16, 2020

The Best Reviewed Nonfiction of 2020

The Best Reviewed Nonfiction of 2020

Featuring Isabel Wilkerson, Zadie Smith, Barack Obama, Helen Macdonald, and more

By Book Marks | December 16, 2020

How to Give Octavia Butler the Covers She Deserves

How to Give Octavia Butler the Covers She Deserves

Repackaging the Patternist Series for the Mother of Afrofuturism

By Elizabeth Connor | December 15, 2020

On the Glory Days of the Great <br>American Trade Paperback

On the Glory Days of the Great
American Trade Paperback

Gerald Howard on the Start of an Era

By Gerald Howard | December 15, 2020

The Restless Ghost Stories <br>of M. R. James

The Restless Ghost Stories
of M. R. James

Adam Scovell on Visiting the Writer's Grave

By Adam Scovell | December 15, 2020

Who is the Narrator of Marcel Proust's <em>In Search of Lost Time</em>?

Who is the Narrator of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time?

Saul Friedländer on the Many Functions of the Most Elusive
Figure in French Literature

By Saul Friedländer | December 15, 2020

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