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Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

By Book Marks | February 12, 2021

Neil Gaiman on the Great Kathy Acker

Neil Gaiman on the Great Kathy Acker

Rereading Pussy, King of the Pirates

By Neil Gaiman | February 12, 2021

Shortcuts to Identity: How We Tell Asian American Stories

Shortcuts to Identity: How We Tell Asian American Stories

Simon Han on What We Talk About When We Talk About Amy Tan

By Simon Han | February 12, 2021

25 Actually Pretty Happy Couples in Literature

25 Actually Pretty Happy Couples in Literature

Listen Guys, We Need This

By Literary Hub | February 12, 2021

The Hidden Narrative in <em>Middlemarch</em> That 2021 Readers Will Spot

The Hidden Narrative in Middlemarch That 2021 Readers Will Spot

Diana Rose Newby on George Eliot's Approach to Contagion

By Diana Rose Newby | February 12, 2021

Daydreams and Fragments: On How We Retrieve Images<br> From the Past

Daydreams and Fragments: On How We Retrieve Images
From the Past

Maël Renouard Explores the Relationship Between
Memory and Technology

By Maël Renouard | February 12, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Go Gentle
  • The Palm House
  • Lázár
  • Rasputin: The Downfall of the Romanovs
  • Famesick: A Memoir
  • Where the Music Had to Go: How Bob Dylan and the Beatles Changed Each Other--And the World

On Taking Kink Seriously: A Reading List

By Garth Greenwell and R.O. Kwon | February 11, 2021

Why is 20th-Century Literature So Obsessed with Normality?

By Lit Century | February 9, 2021

Vendela Vida on Finding Humor in the Darker Side of
Teenage Life

By Jane Ciabattari | February 9, 2021

A Brief History of Metaphor in <br>Persian Poetry

A Brief History of Metaphor in
Persian Poetry

Dick Davis on Literary Forms That Have Lasted a Thousand Years

By Dick Davis | February 9, 2021

When Talking About Poetry Online <br>Goes Very Wrong

When Talking About Poetry Online
Goes Very Wrong

On Ciaran Carson and the Importance of Low-Stakes Conversations in the “Small Back Room”

By Wayne Miller | February 8, 2021

Mastering the Art of the Lockdown Book Recommendation

Mastering the Art of the Lockdown Book Recommendation

With Lockdown Libraries, Clemmie Jackson-Stops Asks Readers to Think Beyond Genre and Taste

By Tyler Wetherall | February 8, 2021

Chigozie Obioma: ‘I Really Do Believe That Fiction Should Say More Than One Thing’

Chigozie Obioma: ‘I Really Do Believe That Fiction Should Say More Than One Thing’

This Week on the History of Literature Podcast

By History of Literature | February 8, 2021

How Translation Brought Me Home to Tunisia

How Translation Brought Me Home to Tunisia

Lara Vergnaud Navigates Yamen Manai's The Ardent Swarm

By Lara Vergnaud | February 8, 2021

On the Complexity of Using the Mango as a Symbol in Diasporic Literature

On the Complexity of Using the Mango as a Symbol in Diasporic Literature

Urvi Kumbhat Maps a Personal Genealogy of the Fruit

By Urvi Kumbhat | February 8, 2021

On the Unconventional 19th-Century Women Who Ventured to Write Novels

On the Unconventional 19th-Century Women Who Ventured to Write Novels

Rosalind Miles Considers Progress, Change, and "Lady Novelists"

By Rosalind Miles | February 5, 2021

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