5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The novel draws on a long tradition of mystical writing that confuses sacred and secular desire.”

By Book Marks | May 30, 2024

Jonny Diamond on His Mother and Alice Munro

Jonny Diamond on His Mother and Alice Munro

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 30, 2024

Literary Catharsis: Jenna Tang on Translating Lin Yi-Han’s Only Novel, <em>Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise</em>

Literary Catharsis: Jenna Tang on Translating Lin Yi-Han’s Only Novel, Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise

On Taiwanese Literature, Trauma, and Redefining "Home"

By Jenna Tang | May 30, 2024

Cass Sunstein on How to Become Famous

Cass Sunstein on How to Become Famous

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | May 30, 2024

18 New Novels You Need to Read This Summer

18 New Novels You Need to Read This Summer

More Light, More Books

By Emily Temple | May 29, 2024

Hanif Abdurraqib on Gloria Naylor’s <em>The Women of Brewster Place</em>

Hanif Abdurraqib on Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place

In Conversation for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | May 29, 2024

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Big Kiss, Bye-Bye
  • Bad Bad Girl
  • The Ten Year Affair
  • Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
  • Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
  • Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution

The Narrative Pleasures of Social Discomfort: A Reading List of School Reunion Stories

By Elise Juska | May 29, 2024

A Queer, Carnivalesque Vision of Chile’s Independence Day from Pedro Lemebel

By Pedro Lemebel | May 29, 2024

Remembering Paul Auster

By Literary Hub | May 28, 2024

Doreen St. Félix on Using Pop Culture to Consider Society

Doreen St. Félix on Using Pop Culture to Consider Society

In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics

By The Critic and Her Publics | May 28, 2024

You’ll Need More Than That Reverse Cowgirl: The Craft of Writing (Actually) Good Sex Scenes

You’ll Need More Than That Reverse Cowgirl: The Craft of Writing (Actually) Good Sex Scenes

Yael van der Wouden Explores the Literary-Erotic Power of Tension, Character Motivation, Weirdness, and Discomfort

By Yael van der Wouden | May 28, 2024

The Special Challenges of Attempting a New Translation of Kafka

The Special Challenges of Attempting a New Translation of Kafka

Mark Harman on Learning to Understand Both the Surfaces and “Subterranean Passages” of Kafka

By Mark Harman | May 28, 2024

Sally Wen Mao! Emma Copley Eisenberg! A critical history of swole-ness (yes)! 19 new books out today.

Sally Wen Mao! Emma Copley Eisenberg! A critical history of swole-ness (yes)! 19 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | May 28, 2024

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 Joyce Carol Oates, R.O. Kwon, Daniel Handler, Kevin Kwan, and More

By Book Marks | May 24, 2024

Ursula K. Le Guin on How to Become a Writer

Ursula K. Le Guin on How to Become a Writer

(Step One: Write)

By Ursula K. Le Guin | May 24, 2024

In Honor of Duke Ellington: Here Are 15 Great Books About Jazz

In Honor of Duke Ellington: Here Are 15 Great Books About Jazz

Ed Simon Recommends Langston Hughes, Dorothy Baker, Geoff Dyer, and More

By Ed Simon | May 24, 2024

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