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 new titles by Catherine Lacey, Matthew Desmond, Sebastian Barry, and More

By Book Marks | March 24, 2023

Shannon McLeod on the Emotional Stability of Flash Fiction and Uncertainty of Novel Writing

Shannon McLeod on the Emotional Stability of Flash Fiction and Uncertainty of Novel Writing

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | March 24, 2023

The Books We Need Now: A Reading List of Heroines Who Are Hot Messes

The Books We Need Now: A Reading List of Heroines Who Are Hot Messes

Justine Sullivan Recommends Meg Mason, Nikki May, and more

By Justine Sullivan | March 24, 2023

Sabrina Orah Mark on Fairy Tales Designed to Wake Us Up

Sabrina Orah Mark on Fairy Tales Designed to Wake Us Up

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | March 24, 2023

13 Adaptations Better Than the Books They’re Based On

13 Adaptations Better Than the Books They’re Based On

(GASP)

By Emily Temple | March 23, 2023

“It Was All in the Service of Not Wanting Queer People to Have to Justify Themselves.” Why Catherine Lacey Rewrote History in <em>Biography of X</em>

“It Was All in the Service of Not Wanting Queer People to Have to Justify Themselves.” Why Catherine Lacey Rewrote History in Biography of X

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | March 23, 2023

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Country People
  • You Won't Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters
  • Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991
  • The Great Wherever
  • A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies
  • The Simp: A Novel Without a Hero

Alone on the Range: Victor LaValle on Lone Women’s Homesteaders, History, and Horror

By Fiction Non Fiction | March 23, 2023

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks | March 23, 2023

Daisy Jones & the Six Balances Authenticity and Fantasy

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

More To Be Shaped By: Searching for Black Nature Writing

More To Be Shaped By: Searching for Black Nature Writing

Erin Sharkey on Decolonizing the Wild Experience

By Erin Sharkey | March 22, 2023

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

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

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | March 22, 2023

Min Jin Lee on the Relationship Between Language and Power

Min Jin Lee on the Relationship Between Language and Power

The Pachinko Author Discusses Teaching, Her Novel in Progress, and the Desire to Make a Difference

By Julia Kovalenko | March 22, 2023

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