Was Marcel Proust A Comedian? On the Unexpected Humor of <em>In Search of Lost Time</em>

Was Marcel Proust A Comedian? On the Unexpected Humor of In Search of Lost Time

Michael Wood Considers an Overlooked Aspect of the French Novelist's Body of Work

By Michael Wood | August 25, 2023

Looking Back at the Groundbreaking Puerto Rican Spanglish Novel <em>Yo-Yo Boing!</em>

Looking Back at the Groundbreaking Puerto Rican Spanglish Novel Yo-Yo Boing!

Rolando Pérez Reflects on Giannina Braschi's Translingual Boricua Classic

By Rolando Pérez | August 25, 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 Anna Funder, Anna May Wong, Jerome Charyn, and More

By Book Marks | August 25, 2023

Dragons Are People Too: Ursula Le Guin’s Acts of Recognition

Dragons Are People Too: Ursula Le Guin’s Acts of Recognition

John Plotz Revisits Earthsea

By John Plotz | August 24, 2023

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"For all of us who lack superpowers, storytelling may be the surest way to grasp the elastic dimensions of life"

By Book Marks | August 24, 2023

Julie Schumacher on How We Travel Now

Julie Schumacher on How We Travel Now

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 24, 2023

Best Reviewed
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  • 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

Jenn Shapland on Santa Fe and Fear of Cities

By The Maris Review | August 24, 2023

On the Bad Binary of "Good" and "Bad" Literature

By Josh Cook | August 23, 2023

Kathryn Bromwich Reads From At the Edge of the Woods

By Damian Barr's Literary Salon | August 23, 2023

Vanessa Riley on Haiti's Only Queen

Vanessa Riley on Haiti's Only Queen

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | August 21, 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 Paul Murray, William Boyd, August Wilson, and More

By Book Marks | August 18, 2023

The Pleasure and Communion of Austen's Country Dance

The Pleasure and Communion of Austen's Country Dance

Cornelia Powers Considers "the Felicities of Rapid Motion"

By Cornelia Powers | August 17, 2023

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"Narrative is one of many tariffs that the world exacts from the uprooted"

By Book Marks | August 17, 2023

Edan Lepucki on the Rules of Time Travel and When She'd Like to Revisit

Edan Lepucki on the Rules of Time Travel and When She'd Like to Revisit

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | August 17, 2023

Samuel G. Freedman on What Hubert Humphrey’s Fight for Civil Rights Can Teach Us Today

Samuel G. Freedman on What Hubert Humphrey’s Fight for Civil Rights Can Teach Us Today

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 17, 2023

Was Tolstoy An Enemy of Love? On the Russian Great's Animosity Towards Desire

Was Tolstoy An Enemy of Love? On the Russian Great's Animosity Towards Desire

Ron Rosenbaum Considers the Essential Role of Love in Making Us Human

By Ron Rosenbaum | August 16, 2023

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