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Here are the best reviewed books of the week!

Here are the best reviewed books of the week!

By Book Marks | September 25, 2020

How Literary Ghosts Can Help Us All Be a Little More Human

How Literary Ghosts Can Help Us All Be a Little More Human

Amy Shearn on Novels by Toni Morrison, Hari Kunzru, George Saunders and More

By Amy Shearn | September 25, 2020

33 Essential Works of Fiction by Iranian Writers

33 Essential Works of Fiction by Iranian Writers

Toward Writing and Publishing Beyond Stereotypes

By Niloufar Talebi | September 25, 2020

A Brief (But Not Too) History of <br>Literary Constipation

A Brief (But Not Too) History of
Literary Constipation

Jessica Gross Does Some Pandemic-Appropriate Reading

By Jessica Gross | September 24, 2020

Dynastic Privilege, A Terrible Novel, and the Race for a Crucial Senate Seat

Dynastic Privilege, A Terrible Novel, and the Race for a Crucial Senate Seat

Anjali Enjeti on What Georgia Democrats Can Learn From #OwnVoices

By Anjali Enjeti | September 24, 2020

What Is So Special About Balzac's Thousands of Characters?

What Is So Special About Balzac's Thousands of Characters?

Peter Brooks on the Extraordinary Fictional Lives of the French Master

By Peter Brooks | September 23, 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

Lucille Clifton Didn't Just Write Poems. She Inhabited Them.

By Tracie Morris | September 21, 2020

The Poet Who Had No Time
for Tragedy

By Dan Beachy-Quick | September 21, 2020

The Best War Narratives Go Beyond Brute Force

By Kerry Greenwood | September 21, 2020

In Vigdis Hjorth's Norway, Perfect Happiness Amounts to Complacency

In Vigdis Hjorth's Norway, Perfect Happiness Amounts to Complacency

Charlotte Barslund on "A Social Democracy Fraying at the Edges"

By Charlotte Barslund | September 21, 2020

Let's Stop with the Realism Versus Science Fiction and Fantasy Debate

Let's Stop with the Realism Versus Science Fiction and Fantasy Debate

Lincoln Michel Proposes a New Way to Think About Fictional Worlds

By Lincoln Michel | September 17, 2020

How a 1960s Sci-Fi Fable Expanded the Meaning of Cuban Pilgrimages

How a 1960s Sci-Fi Fable Expanded the Meaning of Cuban Pilgrimages

Yoss on Miguel Collazo's The Journey

By Yoss | September 17, 2020

The Importance of Taking Girls' Emotions Seriously in Literature

The Importance of Taking Girls' Emotions Seriously in Literature

This Week on The NewberyTart Podcast

By NewberyTart | September 17, 2020

The Joy of Editing—and Knowing—Randall Kenan

The Joy of Editing—and Knowing—Randall Kenan

Alane Mason Remembers a Brilliant Enigma

By Alane Salierno Mason | September 16, 2020

<em>Reading Women</em> on Two Anthologies That Center Race and Disability

Reading Women on Two Anthologies That Center Race and Disability

Kendra Winchester and Jaclyn Masters Discuss About Us and Growing Up African in Australia

By Reading Women | September 16, 2020

How Fiction Reckons with a World in Constant Crisis

How Fiction Reckons with a World in Constant Crisis

Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum and Karen Russell in Conversation

By Literary Hub | September 15, 2020

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