5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

”Its oxygenated prose minutely alive to the smallest variations in pressure between place and character.”

By Book Marks | March 27, 2025

Earthquake Anxiety: <br>Living—and Writing—in Fear of the Big One

Earthquake Anxiety:
Living—and Writing—in Fear of the Big One

Emma Pattee on Capturing the Human Feeling of Disaster

By Emma Pattee | March 27, 2025

Poet, Mystic, Warrior, Visionary: Reimagining the Life and Art of an Aztec Ruler Lost in Myth

Poet, Mystic, Warrior, Visionary: Reimagining the Life and Art of an Aztec Ruler Lost in Myth

Ilan Stavans Resurrects Nezahualcóyotl from Fragments of Fact and Fiction

By Ilan Stavans | March 27, 2025

Alex Higley on <em>True Failure</em> and Shark Tank

Alex Higley on True Failure and Shark Tank

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | March 27, 2025

A Small Press Book We Love: </br><em>Minor Detail</em> by Adaina Shibli

A Small Press Book We Love:
Minor Detail by Adaina Shibli

By Dan Sheehan | March 26, 2025

Sabrina Imbler on the Power of Collectivity

Sabrina Imbler on the Power of Collectivity

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds

By Thresholds | March 26, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Rest of Our Lives
  • Call Me Ishmaelle
  • This Is Where the Serpent Lives
  • Lost Lambs
  • Winter: The Story of a Season
  • The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
  • Departure(s)
  • Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China
  • The Flower Bearers
  • Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood

A Small Press Book We Love:
Provisionally Yours by Antanas Sileika

By Molly Odintz | March 25, 2025

Why Testimonial and Confessional Writing Remains Necessary in the Post-#MeToo Era

By Jamie Hood | March 25, 2025

Fergus McIntosh: “One Wonders”

By The Critic and Her Publics | March 25, 2025

Towards a New “Bad” Feminist Canon: Why Feminism Remains Essential

Towards a New “Bad” Feminist Canon: Why Feminism Remains Essential

Roxane Gay on the Importance of Expanding and Complicating Our Understanding of Contemporary Feminist Thought

By Roxane Gay | March 25, 2025

A Black Avant-Garde: How Lorraine O’Grady’s Literary Artwork Fused Poetry and Politics

A Black Avant-Garde: How Lorraine O’Grady’s Literary Artwork Fused Poetry and Politics

Peter Trachtenberg Holds up the Frame to an Iconic Artist Who Redefined Being an Icon

By Peter Trachtenberg | March 25, 2025

A return to Oz! Jane Austen! Harriet Tubman! Cults! 24 new books out today.

A return to Oz! Jane Austen! Harriet Tubman! Cults! 24 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | March 25, 2025

A Small Press Book We Love: </br><em>Little Blue Encyclopedia (For Vivian)</em> by Hazel Jane Plante

A Small Press Book We Love:
Little Blue Encyclopedia (For Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante

By Drew Broussard | March 24, 2025

On Our Problematic Obsession with First-Love Stories

On Our Problematic Obsession with First-Love Stories

Emily Usher Wants Stories That Show Crushes in All Their Messy, Authentic Glory

By Emily Usher | March 24, 2025

Constructing Blackness: Reading My Identity in Maryse Condé’s “Segu”

Constructing Blackness: Reading My Identity in Maryse Condé’s “Segu”

Mia Fowler on Traveling to Ghana and Making Sense of Herself

By Mia Fowler | March 24, 2025

Farid Matuk on Mirroring, Poetic Artifice, and Complicating Sensuality in Verse

Farid Matuk on Mirroring, Poetic Artifice, and Complicating Sensuality in Verse

The Author of “Moon Mirrored Indivisible” in Conversation with Poets.org

By Literary Hub | March 24, 2025

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