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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The book’s effect is hypnotically telescopic, a vision of people we come to know across decades.”

By Book Marks | February 20, 2025

Nicholas Fandos on New York Politics, Eric Adams, and Trump

Nicholas Fandos on New York Politics, Eric Adams, and Trump

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | February 20, 2025

RaMell Ross on Adapting Colson Whitehead, Black Subjectivity, and the Epic Banal

RaMell Ross on Adapting Colson Whitehead, Black Subjectivity, and the Epic Banal

"The god of the camera is a colonizer but a cul-de-sac history of exploitation is held in black skin.”

By Brittany Allen | February 19, 2025

How Walking Shaped Simone and Hélène de Beauvoir's Art and Thought

How Walking Shaped Simone and Hélène de Beauvoir's Art and Thought

Annabel Abbs-Streets on the Idiosyncratic Way the Beauvoirs Hiked Through the World

By Annabel Abbs | February 19, 2025

Who Were the Women Novelists Who Really Inspired Jane Austen?

Who Were the Women Novelists Who Really Inspired Jane Austen?

Rebecca Romney on Unearthing a Legacy of Systematic Literary Erasure

By Rebecca Romney | February 19, 2025

How the Kremlin’s Truly Epic Adaptation of <em>War and Peace</em> Helped Me Write a Novel

How the Kremlin’s Truly Epic Adaptation of War and Peace Helped Me Write a Novel

Elyse Durham on Sergei Bondarchuk’s Seven-Hour Cinematic Classic

By Elyse Durham | February 19, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Dreams of Liberation: Alex Zamalin on the Political Power of American Countercultures

By Aaron Robertson | February 19, 2025

Jane Austen’s Many Literary Afterlives:
A Reading List

By Rebecca Romney | February 18, 2025

How the Girlboss Lost: Sophie Lewis on the Rise and Fall of a Feminist Moment

By Sophie Lewis | February 18, 2025

Elyse Durham on Depicting the Artistic Side of the Cold War in Fiction

Elyse Durham on Depicting the Artistic Side of the Cold War in Fiction

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Maya & Natasha”

By Jane Ciabattari | February 18, 2025

What Robert Frost’s Philosophy of the Human Spirit Says About His Artistic Ethos

What Robert Frost’s Philosophy of the Human Spirit Says About His Artistic Ethos

Adam Plunkett on the Poet’s Key Intellectual and Literary Influences

By Adam Plunkett | February 18, 2025

Poetry’s “Flirty, Winking Middle Space.” Sarah Lyn Rogers on the Speaker as Mask in Verse

Poetry’s “Flirty, Winking Middle Space.” Sarah Lyn Rogers on the Speaker as Mask in Verse

The Author of “Cosmic Tantrum” Explores Ritual and Poetic Personas

By Sarah Lyn Rogers | February 18, 2025

Robert Frost! SNL! Madeleine Watts! 26 new books out today.

Robert Frost! SNL! Madeleine Watts! 26 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | February 18, 2025

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 Anne Tyler, the German Peasants' War, Charlotte Wood, and More

By Book Marks | February 14, 2025

“Only That Which Does Not Teach Is Irresistible.” Charlotte Wood on Faith, Mortality, and Her Booker-Shortlisted Novel

“Only That Which Does Not Teach Is Irresistible.” Charlotte Wood on Faith, Mortality, and Her Booker-Shortlisted Novel

Eric Olson Talks to the Author of “Stone Yard Devotional”

By Eric Olson | February 14, 2025

Enemies to Lovers: On the Romance Genre’s Mainstream Come-Up

Enemies to Lovers: On the Romance Genre’s Mainstream Come-Up

Angelina Mazza Considers the Changing Literary Landscape for Romance Novels

By Angelina Mazza | February 14, 2025

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