5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Andrea Long Chu on Zadie Smith, Jonathan Dee on Ariel Dorfman, James Wood on George Eliot, and More

By Book Marks | September 7, 2023

"Tolstoy did not neglect to describe the outhouses": Yiyun Li on the Material Concerns of Characters and Writers

The Author of Wednesday’s Child on Class, Money, Joy, and Luxury

By Yiyun Li | September 6, 2023

A Fearless, Free, Literary Space: On Writers' Diaries

A Fearless, Free, Literary Space: On Writers' Diaries

Isabella Trimboli on Alix Cléo Roubaud, Marie Bashkirtseff, Anne Charlotte Robertson, and More

By Isabella Trimboli | September 6, 2023

Beyond the True-False Binary: How the Internet Helped Transform the Lyric Essay

Beyond the True-False Binary: How the Internet Helped Transform the Lyric Essay

Hugh Ryan on Truth and Post-Truth in Creative Nonfiction

By Hugh Ryan | September 6, 2023

Toward Black Wonder: How Nicole Sealey Makes Erasure a New Way of Seeing

Toward Black Wonder: How Nicole Sealey Makes Erasure a New Way of Seeing

Safiya Sinclair on Ferguson Report: An Erasure

By Safiya Sinclair | September 6, 2023

How to Live in Nature: S.L. Coney, Ruthanna Emrys, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs

How to Live in Nature: S.L. Coney, Ruthanna Emrys, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre S03E03

By Tor Presents: Voyage into Genre | September 6, 2023

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  • Joyride: A Memoir
  • A Guardian and a Thief
  • Minor Black Figures
  • True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen
  • The Wayfinder
  • Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat To) the Modern Dictionary

Richard Powers on How to Reconnect with Earth

By Talk Easy | September 6, 2023

“Code words to say what can’t be said”: James Hannaham Talks to a Writer in Solitary Confinement

By Moira Marquis | September 5, 2023

Elaine Equi on Poetry as a Spiritual Practice and a Universal Language

By Elaine Equi | September 5, 2023

Is <em>The Lord of the Rings</em> a Work of Modernism?

Is The Lord of the Rings a Work of Modernism?

Nick Groom Considers Tolkien as Metafiction

By Nick Groom | September 5, 2023

The Beauty of Physical Encounters with Rare Books

The Beauty of Physical Encounters with Rare Books

Kathleen B. Jones on How Touch to Brought Her Novel to Life

By Kathleen B. Jones | September 5, 2023

Notions of

Notions of "Wilderness:" Nine Essential Books About the American Frontier

Peter Stark Recommends Debra Magpie Earling, William Kittredge, Willa Cather, and More

By Peter Stark | September 5, 2023

David van den Berg on Seeing the Darkness

David van den Berg on Seeing the Darkness

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | September 5, 2023

Lisa Leshne Offers Agent Insights

Lisa Leshne Offers Agent Insights

From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | September 5, 2023

The Booker Revisited: On Love's Many Manifestations in <em>A Green Equinox</em>

The Booker Revisited: On Love's Many Manifestations in A Green Equinox

Lucy Scholes Sheds Light On Elizabeth Mavor's Overlooked Modern Classic

By Lucy Scholes | September 1, 2023

A Month of Poetic Acrobatics: 7 New Poetry Books to Read in September

A Month of Poetic Acrobatics: 7 New Poetry Books to Read in September

Featuring Quan Barry, Ariana Benson, Saskia Hamilton, and More

By Rebecca Morgan Frank | September 1, 2023

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