5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Something is off in J.D. Vance’s new memoir.”

By Book Marks | August 20, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

For the week ending August 16, 2026

By Literary Hub | August 20, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

For the week ending August 16, 2026

By Literary Hub | August 20, 2026

Claudia Rankine on Triage, Antigone, and Collapse

Claudia Rankine on Triage, Antigone, and Collapse

In Conversation with Christian Barter, Jennifer Maritza McCauley and Whitney Terrell on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 20, 2026

How Ursula K. Le Guin Channeled Her Environmentalism Into Fiction

How Ursula K. Le Guin Channeled Her Environmentalism Into Fiction

Shelley Streeby on the Ecologies That Inspired the Science Fiction Author's Body of Work

By Shelley Streeby | August 19, 2026

The Submitters: On the Literary Economy of Unreadness

The Submitters: On the Literary Economy of Unreadness

M.C. Mah Considers the Work of Making and Waiting

By M. C. Mah | August 19, 2026

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Annie Proulx Stories: New and Selected
  • The Intangibles: Friendship, Fatherhood, and the Love of the Game
  • The Telephone: A New History
  • No Such Thing as Monday
  • O Now!
  • Don't Stop Snowing
  • The Key Biscayne Affair
  • Vocal Break: On Women, Music, and Power
  • Aristocracy, American Style: Class Privilege and the Persistence of Elite Power
  • Ten Lives: How What We Have Shapes Who We Are

11 Books About Women Who Rewrote Life and Art

By Anne E. Fernald | August 19, 2026

On That Disgraceful, Disreputable, (Wonderful) Form of Punctuation: The Parenthesis

By Florence Hazrat | August 18, 2026

Edwidge Danticat Wishes Her Former English Teachers Would Read Her Work

By Literary Hub | August 18, 2026

Joby Warrick, LaToya Watkins, Katy Simpson Smith, and more: 20 new books out today!

Joby Warrick, LaToya Watkins, Katy Simpson Smith, and more: 20 new books out today!

By Julia Hass | August 18, 2026

Why Thoreau and <em>Walden</em> Resonate With Chinese Youth

Why Thoreau and Walden Resonate With Chinese Youth

Julia Du Explores the Impact of an Iconic Work of American Literature on Contemporary China

By Julia Du | August 17, 2026

Reinventing the Slave Narrative: Ishmael Reed on <em>Flight to Canada</em> at 50

Reinventing the Slave Narrative: Ishmael Reed on Flight to Canada at 50

“Traditionally, mainstream critics have viewed Black writers as apprentices of white masters.”

By Ishmael Reed | August 17, 2026

Everything But the Burden: </br>Greg Tate, John Henryism, and the Cost of Solidarity

Everything But the Burden:
Greg Tate, John Henryism, and the Cost of Solidarity

Steven W. Thrasher on the Reissue of Flyboy in the Buttermilk—and what it can teach us about solidarity

By Steven W. Thrasher | August 17, 2026

Read an Original Review of <em>All the King’s Men</em> on Its 80th Anniversary

Read an Original Review of All the King’s Men on Its 80th Anniversary

“Magnificently vital reading, a book so charged with dramatic tension it almost crackles with blue sparks.”

By Book Marks | August 17, 2026

Miranda July, Jamel Brinkley, and More on Their Favorite (Re)reads

Miranda July, Jamel Brinkley, and More on Their Favorite (Re)reads

The Case for Dipping Back In

By Literary Hub | August 14, 2026

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 Chang-Rae Lee, Virginia Eubanks, Téa Obreht, and More

By Book Marks | August 14, 2026

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