5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“A magnificent and lovable work—both page-turning and coolly visionary.”

By Book Marks | October 2, 2025

Lily King on Campus Novels, Time Jumps, and Having Fun While Writing

Lily King on Campus Novels, Time Jumps, and Having Fun While Writing

Emma Straub Talks to the Author of “Heart the Lover”

By Emma Straub | October 2, 2025

A View with a Room: How Poetry Can Save the Human Brain

A View with a Room: How Poetry Can Save the Human Brain

Kate Colby on Finding Inspiration in Edward Hopper’s “Cape Cod Morning”

By Kate Colby | October 2, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Anton Hur Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Anton Hur Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Han Kang, Irenosen Okojie, Siang Lu, and Others

By Diana Arterian | October 2, 2025

Yiming Ma on the Future of Censorship

Yiming Ma on the Future of Censorship

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | October 2, 2025

The Poetry of Tortured Hearts: On Taylor Swift’s Pre-Raphaelite Era

The Poetry of Tortured Hearts: On Taylor Swift’s Pre-Raphaelite Era

“Swift seems to be identifying with, and forcefully reimagining, this tragic figure from Victorian history.”

By Emily J. Orlando | October 1, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Silver Book
  • The Land in Winter
  • Evensong
  • Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime
  • The History of Money: A Story of Humanity
  • The American Revolution: An Intimate History

Cannibal Sororities and Butterfly Girl Gangs: October’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

By Natalie Zutter | October 1, 2025

10 Great New Children’s Books Out in October That Celebrate All Types of Emotions

By Caroline Carlson | October 1, 2025

Claire Vaye Watkins on Grief in the Desert

By Thresholds | October 1, 2025

The 14 Best Book Covers of September

The 14 Best Book Covers of September

Texture, Text, and Turntables

By Emily Temple | September 30, 2025

The Most Anticipated Audiobooks of October

The Most Anticipated Audiobooks of October

The Literature to Listen to This Fall

By Audiofile Magazine | September 30, 2025

Lily King, Richard Osman, Ada Limón, and more: 22 new books out today!

Lily King, Richard Osman, Ada Limón, and more: 22 new books out today!

By Julia Hass | September 30, 2025

How to Build a Dictionary: On the Hard Art of Popular Lexicography

How to Build a Dictionary: On the Hard Art of Popular Lexicography

Ilan Stavans and Peter Gilliver Discuss the Philosophical and Pragmatic Aspects of the Oxford English Dictionary

By Ilan Stavans | September 29, 2025

Ten Titles in Translation That Celebrate Ukraine

Ten Titles in Translation That Celebrate Ukraine

Nelly Klos Recommends Books, Plays, and Memoirs That Uplift Ukrainian Voices

By Nelly Klos | September 29, 2025

September’s Best Reviewed Fiction

September’s Best Reviewed Fiction

Featuring Ian McEwan, Kiran Desai, Samanta Schweblin, and More

By Book Marks | September 26, 2025

September’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

September’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

Featuring Arundhati Roy, Stephen Greenblatt, Jill Lepore, and More

By Book Marks | September 26, 2025

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