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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Can a novel be both blunt and exquisite?”

By Book Marks | May 9, 2024

How the Beloved Memory of Dead Pets Can Help Guide the Writing Process

How the Beloved Memory of Dead Pets Can Help Guide the Writing Process

Simon Van Booy on Letting Go and Following the Story Wherever It Takes Him

By Simon Van Booy | May 9, 2024

The Annotated Nightstand: What Wendy Chen is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Wendy Chen is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Julián Delgado Lopera, Bo-Young Kim, Brandon Shimoda, and Others

By Diana Arterian | May 9, 2024

Sophie Ratcliffe on Loss and Love

Sophie Ratcliffe on Loss and Love

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | May 9, 2024

In Praise of Pulitzer Prize-Winner Jayne Anne Phillips

In Praise of Pulitzer Prize-Winner Jayne Anne Phillips

Jonathan Corcoran on the Teacher Who Taught Him That Writing Begins Far From the Page

By Jonathan Corcoran | May 8, 2024

Soil As Archive: On the Work of Recognizing Alternate Forms of Sentience

Soil As Archive: On the Work of Recognizing Alternate Forms of Sentience

Angie Sijun Lou Considers the Many Conceptions of Time

By Angie Sijun Lou | May 8, 2024

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Punished for Pregnancy: On the Radical Power of The Millstone by Margaret Drabble in a Post-Roe World

By Carrie Mullins | May 8, 2024

Why Are So Many Mexican Novels Set in Cantinas?

By Nicolás Medina Mora | May 8, 2024

Justin Taylor on Weird Fiction

By The Cosmic Library | May 8, 2024

Bookshelves for Your Book Selves: Monica Wood on Why She Organizes Books by Emotion

Bookshelves for Your Book Selves: Monica Wood on Why She Organizes Books by Emotion

The Author of “How to Read a Book” Shares Style Advice for Bibliophiles' Bookcases

By Monica Wood | May 7, 2024

Colm Tóibín! Jamaica Kincaid plus Kara Walker! Lily Dancyger! 27 new books out today.

Colm Tóibín! Jamaica Kincaid plus Kara Walker! Lily Dancyger! 27 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | May 7, 2024

What Latin American Literature Can Teach the Current Leaders of Latin America

What Latin American Literature Can Teach the Current Leaders of Latin America

Ariel Dorfman Has Some Recommendations for Culturally Illiterate Presidents and Autocrats

By Ariel Dorfman | May 6, 2024

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 New Titles by Rachel Khong, Erik Larson, Karen Valby, and More

By Book Marks | May 3, 2024

Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor on Solidarity, Change, and Our Interconnected World

Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor on Solidarity, Change, and Our Interconnected World

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 2, 2024

Finding a Home in Stories: 10 New Children’s Books to Read in May

Finding a Home in Stories: 10 New Children’s Books to Read in May

Caroline Carlson Recommends Matt Hunt, Julie Flett, Vera Brosgol, and More

By Caroline Carlson | May 2, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Kafka seems both genius and ingenue, and the contradiction brings him closer to us.”

By Book Marks | May 2, 2024

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