5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The beauty and breadth of the landscape stand in counterpoint to the horrors of the human lives playing out upon it.”

By Book Marks | March 5, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

For the week ending March 1, 2026

By Literary Hub | March 5, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

For the week ending March 1, 2026

By Literary Hub | March 5, 2026

James Sullivan on the Power of Protest Music

James Sullivan on the Power of Protest Music

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | March 5, 2026

What I Learned About American Men in My All-Male Book Club

What I Learned About American Men in My All-Male Book Club

Kristopher Jansma on Why More Male Readers Should Start Book Clubs

By Kristopher Jansma | March 4, 2026

Ghost Writing: On AI Before AI

Ghost Writing: On AI Before AI

Emily Hodgson Anderson Considers Our Notions of Intellectual Property and Creative Collaboration

By Emily Hodgson Anderson | March 4, 2026

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
  • Repetition
  • Night Night Fawn
  • El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory
  • Gunk
  • The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary

Gisèle Pelicot’s Memoir is the Ultimate Act of Defiance

By Noëlle de Leeuw | March 4, 2026

On Proust's Wasted Time

By The Cosmic Library | March 4, 2026

A Woman in the World: Colm Tóibín on the Short Fiction of Mary Lavin

By Colm Tóibín | March 3, 2026

Reading the Stars: On Iconic Actors in the Age of Generative AI

Reading the Stars: On Iconic Actors in the Age of Generative AI

Jadie Stillwell Reads Melissa Anderson’s The Hunger

By Jadie Stillwell | March 3, 2026

The Weight of the Self: On James Merrill’s <em>A Different Person</em>

The Weight of the Self: On James Merrill’s A Different Person

Hilton Als Considers the Influence of Class and Queerness in the Life and Work of a Gay American Poet

By Hilton Als | March 3, 2026

Rebecca Solnit, Vigdis Hjorth, Terry Tempest Williams, and more: 23 new books out today!

Rebecca Solnit, Vigdis Hjorth, Terry Tempest Williams, and more: 23 new books out today!

By Julia Hass | March 3, 2026

The Absurdity of Authoritarianism: A Conversation With Svetlana Satchkova

The Absurdity of Authoritarianism: A Conversation With Svetlana Satchkova

Virginia Marshall Discusses Art, Repression and Exile With the Author of The Undead

By Virginia Marshall | March 2, 2026

Woodsy Necromancers and Space Moby-Dick: March’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Woodsy Necromancers and Space Moby-Dick: March’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Stave off winter doldrums with new books from Alexis Hall, Jenn Lyons, Adrian Tchaikovsky, and more

By Natalie Zutter | March 2, 2026

Printers’ Fists, Palaces, and Pavese Stone: New Poetry Coming in March

Printers’ Fists, Palaces, and Pavese Stone: New Poetry Coming in March

Rebecca Morgan Frank Recommends Andrés Cerpa, Monica Ferrell, Melissa Range, and More

By Rebecca Morgan Frank | March 2, 2026

10 New Children’s Books To Get Wonderfully Lost In This March

10 New Children’s Books To Get Wonderfully Lost In This March

Caroline Carlson Shares Upcoming Releases From Esmé Shapiro, Anne Wynter, Laurel Snyder and More

By Caroline Carlson | March 2, 2026

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