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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 Kristen Arnett, McCarthyism, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and More

By Book Marks | March 21, 2025

A Wordless Writer: Samina Ali on How Writing a Memoir Helped Her Brain Trauma Heal

A Wordless Writer: Samina Ali on How Writing a Memoir Helped Her Brain Trauma Heal

The Author of “Pieces You’ll Never Get Back” Reflects on the Aphasia that Forever Altered Her Life and Art

By Samina Ali | March 21, 2025

A Small Press Book We Love: </br><em>Duplex</em> by Kathryn Davis

A Small Press Book We Love:
Duplex by Kathryn Davis

By Emily Temple | March 20, 2025

Hollow Men: The Republican Party is Nothing More Than a Host for the Malignancies of Donald Trump

Hollow Men: The Republican Party is Nothing More Than a Host for the Malignancies of Donald Trump

Gabrielle Bellot on the Empty Suits Destroying the Country

By Gabrielle Bellot | March 20, 2025

On Writing the Hospital

On Writing the Hospital

Madeleine Wulfahrt Considers “Small Rain” and the Future of Post-Pandemic Literature of Illness

By Madeleine Wulfahrt | March 20, 2025

The Timeless Magic of Italo Calvino’s <em>Invisible Cities</em> at 50

The Timeless Magic of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities at 50

Anthony Doerr Reflects on His Long History Deciphering the Literary Puzzles of a Postmodern Masterpiece

By Anthony Doerr | March 20, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Am I the Literary Asshole for Demanding More Semicolons in My Books?

By Kristen Arnett | March 20, 2025

Six Immigrant Novels that Employ Unconventional Narrative Structures

By Shubha Sunder | March 20, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Silvia Park Is Reading Now, and Next

By Diana Arterian | March 20, 2025

Edmund White on The Loves of My Life

Edmund White on The Loves of My Life

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | March 20, 2025

A Small Press Book We Love: </br><em>Let Me Clear My Throat</em> by Elena Passarello

A Small Press Book We Love:
Let Me Clear My Throat by Elena Passarello

By Brittany Allen | March 19, 2025

How Mr. Darcy Became One of Jane Austen’s Most Memorable Creations

How Mr. Darcy Became One of Jane Austen’s Most Memorable Creations

Janet Todd Explores the Origins and Afterlives of a Longtime Object of Literary Desire

By Janet Todd | March 19, 2025

Robert Macfarlane on the Beauty and Urgency of Nan Shepherd’s <em>The Living Mountain</em>

Robert Macfarlane on the Beauty and Urgency of Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain

In Praise of the Scottish Author’s Poetic, Universalist Parochialism

By Robert Macfarlane | March 19, 2025

Catharsis, Harpies, Harmatia, and More: Natasha Pulley on Her Favorite Greek Words

Catharsis, Harpies, Harmatia, and More: Natasha Pulley on Her Favorite Greek Words

The Author of “Hymn to Dionysus” Explores a Linguistic Venn Diagram of Meaning

By Natasha Pulley | March 19, 2025

Charlotte Perkins Gilman on Why She Wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman on Why She Wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper”

From the Penguin Classics Collection “Twelve Stories by American Women”

By Literary Hub | March 19, 2025

An Integral Part of the Story: A Short History of Short Fiction by American Women

An Integral Part of the Story: A Short History of Short Fiction by American Women

Arielle Zibrak Explores the Diverse Literary Landscape of 19th- and Early 20th-Century Female Writers in the United States

By Arielle Zibrak | March 19, 2025

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