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 Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Amelia Earhart, Vivek Shanbhag and More

By Book Marks | July 18, 2025

On Beauty and Its Opposite: Writing Toward Aesthetic Force 

On Beauty and Its Opposite: Writing Toward Aesthetic Force 

Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante on the Importance of the Singular Image

By Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante | July 18, 2025

Surrendering Logic: On Using Magical Realism to Explore Climate Grief

Surrendering Logic: On Using Magical Realism to Explore Climate Grief

Emily Buchanan Rethinks Our Relationship with the Planet in Life and Art

By Emily Buchanan | July 18, 2025

Chloe Michelle Howarth on How to End a Piece of Writing

Chloe Michelle Howarth on How to End a Piece of Writing

“After the last page, it’s as much their story as it is mine.”

By Chloe Michelle Howarth | July 18, 2025

The Queer Relationship That Powered Rachel Carson’s Nature Writing

The Queer Relationship That Powered Rachel Carson’s Nature Writing

Lida Maxwell on Dorothy Freeman, “Silent Spring,” and Rejecting Heteronormativity

By Lida Maxwell | July 18, 2025

Hala Alyan on Diaspora, the Limits of Healing, and Gaza as the Conscience of the World

Hala Alyan on Diaspora, the Limits of Healing, and Gaza as the Conscience of the World

The Author of “I’ll Tell You When I’m Home” in Conversation With Sahar Delijani

By Sahar Delijani | July 17, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Annie Proulx Stories: New and Selected
  • The Intangibles: Friendship, Fatherhood, and the Love of the Game
  • The Telephone: A New History
  • No Such Thing as Monday
  • O Now!
  • Don't Stop Snowing
  • The Key Biscayne Affair
  • Vocal Break: On Women, Music, and Power
  • Aristocracy, American Style: Class Privilege and the Persistence of Elite Power
  • Ten Lives: How What We Have Shapes Who We Are

Give It All Away? On the Literature of Effective Altruism

By Ben Brooks | July 17, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks | July 17, 2025

Ed Park on An Oral History of Atlantis

By Fiction Non Fiction | July 17, 2025

Muscle Beach: Surfing with Bonnie Tsui

Muscle Beach: Surfing with Bonnie Tsui

Mickie Meinhardt Profiles the Author of “On Muscle,” on a Surfboard

By Mickie Meinhardt | July 16, 2025

Fail More, Fail Better: On Writing a Novel Without Knowing or Planning Anything

Fail More, Fail Better: On Writing a Novel Without Knowing or Planning Anything

How Issa Quincy Delights in the Tension of Drafting Through Uncertainty

By Issa Quincy | July 16, 2025

Patricia J. Williams on Martha S. Jones's <em>The Trouble of Color</em>

Patricia J. Williams on Martha S. Jones's The Trouble of Color

In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | July 16, 2025

Dear Fanny, Don’t Worry, I Know You’re Dead

Dear Fanny, Don’t Worry, I Know You’re Dead

Ezra Fox on Working With Fanny Howe on Her Last Book

By Ezra Fox | July 14, 2025

Following the Poet’s Path: A Daughter’s Journey to Japan In Search of Closure

Following the Poet’s Path: A Daughter’s Journey to Japan In Search of Closure

Rebecca Chace on Matsuo Bashō and the Life and Death of Her Mother, the Poet Jean Valentine

By Rebecca Chace | July 14, 2025

What Age-Gap Relationships Reveal About Power, Sex, Love, and Desire

What Age-Gap Relationships Reveal About Power, Sex, Love, and Desire

Hattie Williams on Novels by Kirsten Reed, Coco Mellors, Jenny Erpenbeck, and More

By Hattie Williams | July 14, 2025

The Politics of Care and Resistance in the Work of a Forgotten Pulitzer Prize-Winner

The Politics of Care and Resistance in the Work of a Forgotten Pulitzer Prize-Winner

Finding Hope in the Stories of Zona Gale

By Deborah Williams | July 14, 2025

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