5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"A kind of writing so rare and accomplished that it seems to erase the very nuts and bolts of its own construction"

By Book Marks | March 23, 2023

<em>Daisy Jones & the Six</em> Balances Authenticity and Fantasy

Daisy Jones & the Six Balances Authenticity and Fantasy

The Author of Groupies on the Miniseries Adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Hit Novel

By Sarah Priscus | March 23, 2023

What Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener” Tells Us About Memory Loss

What Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener” Tells Us About Memory Loss

Dasha Kiper on Understanding and Caring For Dementia Patients

By Dasha Kiper | March 23, 2023

A Pathless Wood: Navigating the Poetic Border Between Health and Harm

A Pathless Wood: Navigating the Poetic Border Between Health and Harm

James Davis May on Poetry's Power to Indulge and Control Depression

By James Davis May | March 23, 2023

Catherine Lacey on Playing the Long-Game for Her Fiction

Catherine Lacey on Playing the Long-Game for Her Fiction

“I’m making a body of work over a lifetime.”

By Literary Hub | March 23, 2023

The End of Desire: Christiane Blot-Labarrère on Marguerite Duras’s <em>No More</em>

The End of Desire: Christiane Blot-Labarrère on Marguerite Duras’s No More

"The sentiment of never more—this is the labyrinth in which language helplessly tries to beguile death."

By Christiane Blot-Labarrère | March 22, 2023

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  • This Is Where the Serpent Lives
  • Lost Lambs
  • Winter: The Story of a Season
  • The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
  • The Hitch
  • Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China

More To Be Shaped By: Searching for Black Nature Writing

By Erin Sharkey | March 22, 2023

“The Power is Not Going to Be Static.” Madelaine Lucas on Adding Nuance to the May-December Cliché

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | March 22, 2023

Min Jin Lee on the Relationship Between Language and Power

By Julia Kovalenko | March 22, 2023

Multicultural London: A Reading List of Displacement, Diaspora, and Diversity

Multicultural London: A Reading List of Displacement, Diaspora, and Diversity

Cecile Pin Recommends Zadie Smith, Xiaolu Guo, and More

By Cecile Pin | March 22, 2023

Mark A. Radcliffe Reads from His New Novel <em>Three Gifts</em>

Mark A. Radcliffe Reads from His New Novel Three Gifts

From Damian Barr’s Literary Salon Podcast

By Damian Barr's Literary Salon | March 22, 2023

20 new books to check out today!

20 new books to check out today!

By Gabrielle Bellot | March 21, 2023

Szilvia Molnar on Knowing When to Kill Your Darlings

Szilvia Molnar on Knowing When to Kill Your Darlings

“I sometimes pulled back on reality. But, on the page, I gave close to everything.”

By Szilvia Molnar | March 21, 2023

The Ethics of Writing About Race as a White Woman

The Ethics of Writing About Race as a White Woman

Rachel Jamison Webster on Oral Traditions, Racial Ancestries, and Confronting Shame

By Rachel Jamison Webster | March 21, 2023

You Cannot Protect Your Children From <em>Moana</em>: How Not to Fight Fairy Tales

You Cannot Protect Your Children From Moana: How Not to Fight Fairy Tales

Julia Langbein Channeled Her Parental Anxiety into Better Girlhood Characters

By Julia Langbein | March 21, 2023

Idra Novey: How to Pack a Punch in a Short Novel

Idra Novey: How to Pack a Punch in a Short Novel

In Conversation with Christopher Hermelin on So Many Damn Books

By So Many Damn Books | March 21, 2023

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