5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"A hilarious revolt against the aggressive godlessness, dehumanization and fear plaguing our time."

By Book Marks | October 5, 2023

Queerness Made Quotidian: Gabrielle Bellot on the Quiet Power of <em>Roaming</em>

Queerness Made Quotidian: Gabrielle Bellot on the Quiet Power of Roaming

In Praise of a Graphic Novel Whose Slice-of-Life Normalcy Provides "a Subtle Fuck-You to the Book-Banners"

By Gabrielle Bellot | October 2, 2023

The Booker Revisited: An Unflinching Novel of South African History and Inheritance

The Booker Revisited: An Unflinching Novel of South African History and Inheritance

Lucy Scholes Reads Achmat Dangor's Bitter Fruit

By Lucy Scholes | October 2, 2023

Shilpi Suneja on Writing After Salman Rushdie

Shilpi Suneja on Writing After Salman Rushdie

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | October 2, 2023

September's Best Reviewed Fiction

September's Best Reviewed Fiction

Featuring New Titles by Zadie Smith, Anne Enright, Lauren Groff, and More

By Book Marks | September 29, 2023

September's Best Reviewed Nonfiction

September's Best Reviewed Nonfiction

Featuring New Titles by Jonathan Raban, Annie Ernaux, Naomi Klein, and More

By Book Marks | September 29, 2023

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Rest of Our Lives
  • Call Me Ishmaelle
  • Homeschooled: A Memoir
  • The Spy in the Archive: How One Man Tried to Kill the KGB
  • Watching Over Her
  • American Reich: A Murder in Orange County, Neo-Nazis, and a New Age of Hate

Confessions of a Chronically Online Janeite

By Rhonda Watts | September 28, 2023

Brooklyn Public Library’s Leigh Hurwitz on Helping Young People Resist Censorship

By Fiction Non Fiction | September 28, 2023

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks | September 28, 2023

Aparna Nancherla on Writing as a Procrastinator

Aparna Nancherla on Writing as a Procrastinator

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | September 28, 2023

On Shakespeare's Two Heroic Friends that Saved the Bard's Plays From Being Burned

On Shakespeare's Two Heroic Friends that Saved the Bard's Plays From Being Burned

A Short History of the First Folio

By Gregory Doran | September 27, 2023

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Pedro Páramo">"Bitterness Incarnate:" Douglas J. Weatherford on Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo

"The text vacillates between presence and absence, between reality and irreality, and even between life and death."

By Douglas J. Weatherford | September 27, 2023

Hermione Lee on Mavis Gallant,

Hermione Lee on Mavis Gallant, "Unerring Stylist"

"A writer for whom nothing is alien and everything is possible"

By Hermione Lee | September 26, 2023

Elisa Gabbert and Michael Joseph Walsh on Rilke's <em>The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge</em>

Elisa Gabbert and Michael Joseph Walsh on Rilke's The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

In Conversation with Catherine Nichols on the Lit Century Podcast

By Lit Century | September 26, 2023

New Homelands: Alexander Chee on Lan Samantha Chang's <em>Hunger</em>

New Homelands: Alexander Chee on Lan Samantha Chang's Hunger

"It is a wise book, for the way it is full of the sorts of mistakes people make and cannot take back."

By Alexander Chee | September 25, 2023

Another Possible World: Jen Silverman on Imagining Dystopias and Utopias

Another Possible World: Jen Silverman on Imagining Dystopias and Utopias

"What better future can we believe in, so that it can be made?"

By Jen Silverman | September 25, 2023

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