5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Kafka seems both genius and ingenue, and the contradiction brings him closer to us.”

By Book Marks | May 2, 2024

I Don’t Want to Talk to My Coworker About Their Stupid Writing: Am I the Literary Asshole?

I Don’t Want to Talk to My Coworker About Their Stupid Writing: Am I the Literary Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | May 2, 2024

Professors, Priests, Provosts, Manholes, and More: 7 Poetry Books to Read This May

Professors, Priests, Provosts, Manholes, and More: 7 Poetry Books to Read This May

Rebecca Morgan Frank Recommends Catherine Barnett, Jeremy Michael Clark, Ann Jäderlund, and More

By Rebecca Morgan Frank | May 2, 2024

Boel Westin on Tove Jansson

Boel Westin on Tove Jansson

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | May 2, 2024

Paul Auster has died at age 77.

Paul Auster has died at age 77.

By Jonny Diamond | May 1, 2024

Zombies, Zmora, and Zo Much More: May’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Zombies, Zmora, and Zo Much More: May’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Contemporary Fantasy and Climate Change Futures from Veronica Roth, Peter S. Beagle, Suyi Davies Okungbowa, and More

By Natalie Zutter | May 1, 2024

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • House of Day, House of Night
  • The Award
  • Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
  • Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
  • Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
  • The Six Loves of James I

Lorrie Moore! Drew Gilpin Faust! Gay lit galore! 27 books out in paperback this May.

By Gabrielle Bellot | May 1, 2024

The Cosmic Library Reads Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Wakefield"

By The Cosmic Library | May 1, 2024

Rachel Khong on the Power and Potential of Not Knowing

By Nicole Chung | April 30, 2024

Dorothy Chan! Erik Larson! Aimee Nezhukumatathil! 20 new books out today.

Dorothy Chan! Erik Larson! Aimee Nezhukumatathil! 20 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 30, 2024

An (Ongoing) Taxonomy of the Sad Rich Girls of Literature

An (Ongoing) Taxonomy of the Sad Rich Girls of Literature

Sanibel Lazar Proposes a System of Classification for Unhappy Endings Born of Blessed Circumstances

By Sanibel | April 29, 2024

AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of April

AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of April

The Month in Listening Literarily

By Audiofile Magazine | April 29, 2024

How Novelist Lynne Reid Banks Helped Me See Myself—and the World

How Novelist Lynne Reid Banks Helped Me See Myself—and the World

Aaron Hicklin: “I yearned for a bigger life and was sure it would come for me.”

By Aaron Hicklin | April 26, 2024

Nell Irvin Painter on Writing About Anything (and Everything)

Nell Irvin Painter on Writing About Anything (and Everything)

A Call to Authors and Publishers Alike

By Nell Irvin Painter | April 26, 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 Jane Smiley, Judi Dench, Justin Taylor, and More

By Book Marks | April 26, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“There are two kinds of novels about American life in the digital age: panoramas and selfies.”

By Book Marks | April 25, 2024

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