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 Claire Messud, Adam Higginbotham, Miranda July, Hari Kunzru, and More

By Book Marks | May 17, 2024

Better in the Middle: Eight Writing Hacks From a Mid-List Author

Better in the Middle: Eight Writing Hacks From a Mid-List Author

Anna Dorn Offers Some Subjective Tidbits For Writers At Any Stage of Their Journey

By Anna Dorn | May 17, 2024

Anna Noyes on Writing the Book That Keeps Her Awake

Anna Noyes on Writing the Book That Keeps Her Awake

“I want narrative propelled by questions, not by the need to provide each answer.”

By Anna Noyes | May 17, 2024

A Mouth Holds Many Things: On the Magic of Hybrid Writing

A Mouth Holds Many Things: On the Magic of Hybrid Writing

Dao Strom Enters a State of Slippage

By Dao Strom | May 17, 2024

Signs, Symbols, and Omens: A Reading List of Books Featuring Superstitions

Signs, Symbols, and Omens: A Reading List of Books Featuring Superstitions

Jessie Rosen Recommends Jennifer Weiner, Yangsze Choo, Morgan Jerkins, and More

By Jessie Rosen | May 17, 2024

Curtis Sittenfeld on Love and Comedy

Curtis Sittenfeld on Love and Comedy

On Sun Valley Writers’ Conference’s Beyond the Page

By Sun Valley Writers' Conference | May 17, 2024

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • They
  • This Is Not About Us
  • Eradication: A Fable
  • The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief
  • The Last Kings of Hollywood: Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg—And the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema
  • End of Days: Ruby Ridge, the Apocalypse, and the Unmaking of America

I Want to Put a Dozen Blurbs on My Book: Am I the Literary Asshole?

By Kristen Arnett | May 16, 2024

My Mother Will Live Forever in the Stories of Alice Munro

By Jonny Diamond | May 16, 2024

Brandy Jensen on the Mainstreaming of Polyamory

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 16, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Ms. Munro has created tales that limn entire lifetimes in a handful of pages.”

By Book Marks | May 16, 2024

We’re Not in Winesburg Anymore: On the Literature of the Small Town

We’re Not in Winesburg Anymore: On the Literature of the Small Town

Carolyn Kuebler Recommends Kathryn Davis, Linda Legarde Grover, Jon McGregor, and More

By Carolyn Kuebler | May 16, 2024

The Secret Master: On Translating the Forgotten Argentine Writer Ángel Bonomini

The Secret Master: On Translating the Forgotten Argentine Writer Ángel Bonomini

Jordan Landsman Remembers the Writer Admired by Jorge Luis Borges, Alberto Manguel, and Others

By Jordan Landsman | May 16, 2024

Adelle Waldman on Muckraking Novels

Adelle Waldman on Muckraking Novels

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | May 16, 2024

The Yinzers of Glasgow: On the Scottish Origins of Pittsburgh’s Unique Dialect

The Yinzers of Glasgow: On the Scottish Origins of Pittsburgh’s Unique Dialect

Ed Simon Demystifies and Reclaims Pittsburghese

By Ed Simon | May 15, 2024

Tearing Away at the Time Escaping: Lou Stoppard on Pairing Photographs with Annie Ernaux’s <em>Exteriors</em>

Tearing Away at the Time Escaping: Lou Stoppard on Pairing Photographs with Annie Ernaux’s Exteriors

Rebecca Bengal Talks to the Curator and Writer About Photographic and Fictional Truth

By Rebecca Bengal | May 15, 2024

Sisterhood of the Traveling Stories: On the Literature of Fictional Sisters

Sisterhood of the Traveling Stories: On the Literature of Fictional Sisters

Kimberly King Parsons Recommends Ruth Madievsky, Cecily Wong, Vauhini Vara, and More

By Kimberly King Parsons | May 15, 2024

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