5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“It’s the best vaccination against 1970s nostalgia I’ve ever received.”

By Book Marks | August 1, 2025

Robot Ghost Kitchens and Memory Capitalism: August’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Robot Ghost Kitchens and Memory Capitalism: August’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

New Summer Reads from Annalee Newitz, Louis Sachar, Charlie Jane Anders, and More

By Natalie Zutter | August 1, 2025

Taco Knights, A Mexican <em>Romeo and Juliet</em>, Goats: Ten Children’s Books to Read in August

Taco Knights, A Mexican Romeo and Juliet, Goats: Ten Children’s Books to Read in August

Caroline Carlson Recommends Daniela Kulot, Megan Maynor, Hailey Alcaraz, and More

By Caroline Carlson | August 1, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Amy Silverberg Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Amy Silverberg Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Rita Bullwinkel, Rebecca Lee, Marie-Helene Bertino, and Others

By Diana Arterian | August 1, 2025

Unimprovable Penis-Forward Poems and More! Seven Poetry Books to Read This August

Unimprovable Penis-Forward Poems and More! Seven Poetry Books to Read This August

Christopher Spaide Recommends Taylor Byas, Heather Christle, bruno darío and More

By Christopher Spaide | August 1, 2025

Audre Lorde! Elizabeth Strout! Oscar Wilde! 25 books out in paperback this August.

Audre Lorde! Elizabeth Strout! Oscar Wilde! 25 books out in paperback this August.

By Gabrielle Bellot | August 1, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • House of Day, House of Night
  • The Award
  • Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
  • Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
  • Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
  • The Six Loves of James I

On Promising Young Women (and the Nameless Men Who Get in Their Way)

By Meg Pillow | July 31, 2025

Vanity Fair’s Dan Adler on Jeffrey Epstein and What Ghislaine Maxwell Knows

By Fiction Non Fiction | July 31, 2025

July’s Best Reviewed Fiction

By Dan Sheehan | July 31, 2025

July’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

July’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

Featuring Love at Sea, Amelia Earhart, the Roma, and More

By Book Marks | July 31, 2025

The Most Anticipated Audiobooks of August

The Most Anticipated Audiobooks of August

The Literature to Listen to This Month

By Audiofile Magazine | July 31, 2025

“If God Were Like Chekhov, I Would Be Consoled.” On the Privileges of Misery

“If God Were Like Chekhov, I Would Be Consoled.” On the Privileges of Misery

Philip Metres on the Eternal Brilliance of a Russian Master

By Philip Metres | July 30, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“If Vivian Gornick wrote fiction, it might look something like this.”

By Book Marks | July 30, 2025

Form, Method, and Metafiction: Talking Craft and Completion with Ed Park

Form, Method, and Metafiction: Talking Craft and Completion with Ed Park

Eric Olson Profiles the Author of “An Oral History of Atlantis”

By Eric Olson | July 30, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Daniel Saldaña Paris is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Daniel Saldaña Paris is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Gustav Flaubert, Yiyun Li, Francesca Wade, and Others

By Diana Arterian | July 30, 2025

Roy Williams on Dael Orlandersmith’s <em>Yellowman</em>

Roy Williams on Dael Orlandersmith’s Yellowman

In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | July 30, 2025

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