5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The sex improves; the prose does not.”

By Dan Sheehan | August 4, 2022

How to Adapt Edith Wharton: In Praise of Terence Davies’s <em>The House of Mirth</em>

How to Adapt Edith Wharton: In Praise of Terence Davies’s The House of Mirth

With Two Wharton Projects in the Works, What Can Be Learned from the Masterful 2000 Adaptation?

By Robert Stinner | August 4, 2022

Samuel Amadon on Self-Reinvention and Trusting Your Own Style

Samuel Amadon on Self-Reinvention and Trusting Your Own Style

Peter Mishler Talks With the Author of Often, Common, Some, And Free

By Peter Mishler | August 4, 2022

WATCH: Chinelo Okparanta and Akwaeke Emezi on the Tensions of Our Time

WATCH: Chinelo Okparanta and Akwaeke Emezi on the Tensions of Our Time

Hosted by Greenlight Bookstore

By The Virtual Book Channel | August 4, 2022

How One Group of Global South Writers is Decolonizing Literature

How One Group of Global South Writers is Decolonizing Literature

Pritika Pradhan on The Radical Books Collective

By Pritika Pradhan | August 3, 2022

From World Wars to Airborne Fairies: How History, Myth, and Folklore Shape Our Stories

From World Wars to Airborne Fairies: How History, Myth, and Folklore Shape Our Stories

Emma Seckel on the Weightiness of History and the Vastness of Landscape

By Emma Seckel | August 3, 2022

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Big Kiss, Bye-Bye
  • Bad Bad Girl
  • The Ten Year Affair
  • Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
  • Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
  • Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution

10 New SF and Fantasy Books
to Augment Your August

By Book Marks | August 3, 2022

21 new books to take home and love today.

By Katie Yee | August 2, 2022

“I have drunk, and seen the spider.” On Swallowing Bugs in Fiction

By Daisy Hildyard | August 2, 2022

Sandra Newman on Writing Novels As a Way to Represent the World

Sandra Newman on Writing Novels As a Way to Represent the World

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

By I'm a Writer But | August 2, 2022

Anxiety and Responsibility: What Stories Can Come From Our Current Moment?

Anxiety and Responsibility: What Stories Can Come From Our Current Moment?

Clare Pollard on the Urgency of Writing About Now

By Clare Pollard | August 2, 2022

Marianne Wiggins on Completing a Novel After Suffering a Stroke and Finding Inspiration In California’s Dry Terrain

Marianne Wiggins on Completing a Novel After Suffering a Stroke and Finding Inspiration In California’s Dry Terrain

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of Properties of Thirst

By Jane Ciabattari | August 2, 2022

AudioFile’s Best </br>Audiobooks of July

AudioFile’s Best
Audiobooks of July

The Month in Literary Listening

By Book Marks | August 2, 2022

In Praise of Survival Literature

In Praise of Survival Literature

Drew Broussard in Conversation with Christopher Hermelin on So Many Damn Books

By So Many Damn Books | August 2, 2022

The Pain-Writing-Money Trifecta: On Nora Ephron and Grief as Copy

The Pain-Writing-Money Trifecta: On Nora Ephron and Grief as Copy

Ella Risbridger Considers Art, Life, and Truth

By Ella Risbridger | August 1, 2022

Mary Ruefle on Bringing Joy to Your Writing Practice

Mary Ruefle on Bringing Joy to Your Writing Practice

“Writing is not what you do, it’s who you are.”

By Mary Ruefle | August 1, 2022

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