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Here are the best reviewed books of the week!

 
By Book Marks  September 25, 2020
Essential Books

33 Essential Works of Fiction by Iranian Writers

By Niloufar Talebi  September 25, 2020
On Poetry

I Made a Book of Erasure Poems Out of Stephen King’s Misery

By Sarah J. Sloat  September 25, 2020
The Literary Life

Carl Hiaasen on Satire as a Product of Anger

By The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan  September 25, 2020
Criticism

A Brief (But Not Too) History of
Literary Constipation

By Jessica Gross  September 24, 2020
2020 Election

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

By Anjali Enjeti  September 24, 2020
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
Craft

Embracing the Wildness of Diaspora: A Conversation with K-Ming Chang

By Ysabelle Cheung  September 24, 2020
NewberyTart

Erin Entrada Kelly on Writing the Kind of Heroine Who Doesn’t Go Charging into the Forest

By NewberyTart   September 24, 2020
The Natural World

On Planting Seeds, Excavating Language, and the Politics
of Place

By Literary Hub  September 23, 2020
Ghosts!

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
How to Read

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

By Peter Brooks  September 23, 2020
Poetry

How I Found Small Joys in My Life as a Poem Elf

By Maggie Lane  September 23, 2020
WMFA

Linda Kay Klein on Being a Steward of Others’ Stories

By WMFA   September 23, 2020
The Quarantine Tapes

Lena Herzog on Reading Montaigne Through the Pandemic

From The Quarantine Tapes Podcast with Paul Holdengräber

By The Quarantine Tapes  September 23, 2020
Otherppl

Amy Shearn on the Narrative Usefulness of Ghosts

By Otherppl with Brad Listi  September 23, 2020
Reading Women

Vicki Laveau-Harvie on Writing Family Tragicomedy… Longhand

By Reading Women  September 23, 2020
On Death

On the Challenges of Writing About Death

By Annie Lyons  September 22, 2020
Capitalism

Capitalism is Killing Us (But It
Doesn’t Have To)

A Conversation Between C.J. Polychroniou, Noam Chomsky, and Robert Pollin

By C.J. Polychroniou, Noam Chomsky, and Robert Pollin   September 22, 2020
Poets

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

By Tracie Morris  September 21, 2020
Poetry

The Poet Who Had No Time
for Tragedy

By Dan Beachy-Quick  September 21, 2020
Criticism

The Best War Narratives Go Beyond Brute Force

By Kerry Greenwood  September 21, 2020
In Translation

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
On Race

I spoke with a friend of Robert and Mabel Williams about Negroes With Guns and BLM.

By Aaron Robertson  September 18, 2020
Theater

Character-Building: On Past Traumas and a Future for the Stage

By Dan O'Brien  September 18, 2020
Mighty SONG Writers

WATCH: Matt Quinn of Mt. Joy on Musical Storytelling and Early Influences

By Literary Hub  September 23, 2020
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