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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"Her book has promised universal absolution and universal absolution it must deliver."

By Book Marks | September 21, 2023

The Politics of Chronic Illness Memoirs

The Politics of Chronic Illness Memoirs

"They show a broader human urge to understand the bodies we live in, especially when they falter."

By Kate Roberts | September 19, 2023

The Marvelous Real: Leonardo Padura on Alejo Carpentier's <em>The Lost Steps</em>

The Marvelous Real: Leonardo Padura on Alejo Carpentier's The Lost Steps

"Art entails a kind of knowledge that is undoubtedly transcendent in character. And yet art must be, is, something more."

By Leonardo Padura | September 18, 2023

James Shapiro on Shakespeare and America

James Shapiro on Shakespeare and America

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | September 18, 2023

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 Lauren Groff, Naomi Klein, James Ellroy, and More

By Book Marks | September 15, 2023

Committing to the High Romance of <em>The Notebook</em>

Committing to the High Romance of The Notebook

Annie Berke on Pre-Ken Ryan Gosling and the Campless Excess of the 2004 Adaptation

By Annie Berke | September 15, 2023

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

A Lot of Pain and A Lot of Humor: Ottessa Moshfegh on Dinah Brooke's Lord Jim at Home

By Ottessa Moshfegh | September 14, 2023

John Manuel Arias on Living With and Writing Ghosts

By The Maris Review | September 14, 2023

Leila Aboulela on the Coups in Africa

By Fiction Non Fiction | September 14, 2023

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"There’s a whiff of desperate masculinity floating through the book, as rank as a Pretoria boys’ locker room"

By Book Marks | September 14, 2023

On the Enduring Popularity of Marvel's <em>Fantastic Four</em>

On the Enduring Popularity of Marvel's Fantastic Four

"The fact that the stories and characters that made me a reader as a kid are still as prevalent today just goes to show how truly fantastic they still are."

By Jerry Craft | September 13, 2023

Drifting Along the Current: On the 10th Anniversary of <em>Self-Portrait in Green</em>

Drifting Along the Current: On the 10th Anniversary of Self-Portrait in Green

Jordan Stump On Translating Marie NDiaye

By Jordan Stump | September 12, 2023

Conquest and Care in Antarctica: On Climate Stories that Complicate the Narrative

Conquest and Care in Antarctica: On Climate Stories that Complicate the Narrative

Michaela Cavanagh Reads Elizabeth Rush's The Quickening

By Michaela Cavanagh | September 11, 2023

How Jonathan Raban's <em>Passage to Juneau</em> Decolonizes Nature Writing

How Jonathan Raban's Passage to Juneau Decolonizes Nature Writing

Robert MacFarlane on Indigenous Pantheons, the Western Notion of the Sublime, and Raban's Disruptive Language

By Robert Macfarlane | September 11, 2023

The Geology of Misery: What Philip Larkin and Ted Lasso (and Science) Tell Us About Trauma

The Geology of Misery: What Philip Larkin and Ted Lasso (and Science) Tell Us About Trauma

On Breaking the Cycle of Individual and Collective Dehumanization

By Catherine Buni | September 11, 2023

Maaheen Ahmed on the Dynamism of Comics

Maaheen Ahmed on the Dynamism of Comics

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | September 11, 2023

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