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 Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Amelia Earhart, Vivek Shanbhag and More

By Book Marks | July 18, 2025

Surrendering Logic: On Using Magical Realism to Explore Climate Grief

Surrendering Logic: On Using Magical Realism to Explore Climate Grief

Emily Buchanan Rethinks Our Relationship with the Planet in Life and Art

By Emily Buchanan | July 18, 2025

The Queer Relationship That Powered Rachel Carson’s Nature Writing

The Queer Relationship That Powered Rachel Carson’s Nature Writing

Lida Maxwell on Dorothy Freeman, “Silent Spring,” and Rejecting Heteronormativity

By Lida Maxwell | July 18, 2025

Hala Alyan on Diaspora, the Limits of Healing, and Gaza as the Conscience of the World

Hala Alyan on Diaspora, the Limits of Healing, and Gaza as the Conscience of the World

The Author of “I’ll Tell You When I’m Home” in Conversation With Sahar Delijani

By Sahar Delijani | July 17, 2025

Give It All Away? On the Literature of Effective Altruism

Give It All Away? On the Literature of Effective Altruism

Ben Brooks Recommends Dave Eggers, Neel Mukherjee, Ann Napolitano and More

By Ben Brooks | July 17, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"The novel treats its characters like hogs to the slaughter."

By Book Marks | July 17, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Joyride: A Memoir
  • A Guardian and a Thief
  • Minor Black Figures
  • True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen
  • The Wayfinder
  • Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat To) the Modern Dictionary

Ed Park on An Oral History of Atlantis

By Fiction Non Fiction | July 17, 2025

Patricia J. Williams on Martha S. Jones's The Trouble of Color

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | July 16, 2025

Dear Fanny, Don’t Worry, I Know You’re Dead

By Ezra Fox | July 14, 2025

Following the Poet’s Path: A Daughter’s Journey to Japan In Search of Closure

Following the Poet’s Path: A Daughter’s Journey to Japan In Search of Closure

Rebecca Chace on Matsuo Bashō and the Life and Death of Her Mother, the Poet Jean Valentine

By Rebecca Chace | July 14, 2025

What Age-Gap Relationships Reveal About Power, Sex, Love, and Desire

What Age-Gap Relationships Reveal About Power, Sex, Love, and Desire

Hattie Williams on Novels by Kirsten Reed, Coco Mellors, Jenny Erpenbeck, and More

By Hattie Williams | July 14, 2025

The Politics of Care and Resistance in the Work of a Forgotten Pulitzer Prize-Winner

The Politics of Care and Resistance in the Work of a Forgotten Pulitzer Prize-Winner

Finding Hope in the Stories of Zona Gale

By Deborah Williams | July 14, 2025

Even Better the Second (or Third, or Fourth...) Time: In Praise of Re-Reading

Even Better the Second (or Third, or Fourth...) Time: In Praise of Re-Reading

Kathy Wang: “There are certain books where...the pleasure there isn’t really the ending but rather the journey.”

By Kathy Wang | July 14, 2025

Other Worlds, Other Futures: On <em>Black Panther</em> and the Dream of Escapist Emancipation

Other Worlds, Other Futures: On Black Panther and the Dream of Escapist Emancipation

Ekow Eshun Explores the Possibilities of Black Futures That Transcend the Expectations of Modernity

By Ekow Eshun | July 11, 2025

Writing Advice and Literary Wisdom from the Great E.B. White

Writing Advice and Literary Wisdom from the Great E.B. White

“I think writing is mainly work.”

By Sam Weller | July 11, 2025

Irenosen Okojie on Creating New Mythologies

Irenosen Okojie on Creating New Mythologies

In Praise of the Excitement of Reinterpretation

By Irenosen Okojie | July 11, 2025

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