5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"The dividing line between truth and nonsense isn’t always easy to discern"

By Book Marks | April 27, 2023

Simple, Sparse and Profound: David Sexton on Kazuo Ishiguro’s <em>Never Let Me Go</em>

Simple, Sparse and Profound: David Sexton on Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go

“What this book is about is ordinary, normal and everyday, the knowledge that we are mortal...”

By David Sexton | April 26, 2023

Literal Star-Crossed Lovers: A Reading List of Space Operas with Romance Subplots

Literal Star-Crossed Lovers: A Reading List of Space Operas with Romance Subplots

S.B. Divya Recommends Valerie Valdes, Lois McMaster Bujold, Malka Older, and More

By S. B. Divya | April 26, 2023

The Annotated Nightstand: What Douglas Manuel is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Douglas Manuel is Reading Now and Next

Solmaz Sharif, Amber Flame, Clint Smith and More.

By Diana Arterian | April 26, 2023

10 Screen Adaptations Much, Much Worse Than The Books They’re Based On

10 Screen Adaptations Much, Much Worse Than The Books They’re Based On

So Many to Choose From!

By Literary Hub | April 25, 2023

Meet the Baillie Gifford Nonfiction Prize “Winner of Winners” Shortlist

Meet the Baillie Gifford Nonfiction Prize “Winner of Winners” Shortlist

The Best in Nonfiction

By Literary Hub | April 25, 2023

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man: A Memoir
  • Nonesuch
  • Whidbey
  • A Scandal in Königsberg
  • The Quantity Theory of Morality
  • Partially Devoured: How Night of the Living Dead Saved My Life and Changed the World

17 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 25, 2023

Claire Dederer on Doris Lessing and the Divided Mother

By Claire Dederer | April 25, 2023

Jennifer Egan on the Fascinating Interactions Between Technology and Inner Life

By Talk Easy | April 25, 2023

Courtney Zoffness on Accidentally Writing an Essay Collection 

Courtney Zoffness on Accidentally Writing an Essay Collection 

In Conversation with Lindsay Hunter on I'm a Writer But  

By I'm a Writer But | April 25, 2023

Rishi Dastidar Offers a Post-Apocalyptic Jig and Reel to Dance Around Our Climate Crisis

Rishi Dastidar Offers a Post-Apocalyptic Jig and Reel to Dance Around Our Climate Crisis

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | April 25, 2023

Let's talk about that <em>Great Expectations</em> finale.

Let's talk about that Great Expectations finale.

By Janet Manley | April 24, 2023

Announcing the Winners of the 2023 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction

Announcing the Winners of the 2023 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction

Lauren Groff on This Year's Winners and the "Infinitely Malleable, Gorgeously Economical, and Endlessly Surprising" Short Story Form

By Lauren Groff | April 24, 2023

Julie Buntin on the Uncanny Omniscience of Judy Blume

Julie Buntin on the Uncanny Omniscience of Judy Blume

Tracing a Girlhood Through the Books That Predicted It

By Julie Buntin | April 24, 2023

The Monstrousness Lurking Inside Motherhood

The Monstrousness Lurking Inside Motherhood

Amanda Parrish Morgan on Claire Dederer, Mary Shelley, Rachel Yoder, and the Warped Self

By Amanda Parrish Morgan | April 24, 2023

Aleksandar Hemon on Sarajevo, Jerusalem, and the Political Power of “Macaronic” Language

Aleksandar Hemon on Sarajevo, Jerusalem, and the Political Power of “Macaronic” Language

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | April 24, 2023

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