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

The Memoir That Found Me: Michaele Weissman on Food, Marriage, and Identity

The Memoir That Found Me: Michaele Weissman on Food, Marriage, and Identity

"Letting go of my sense of literary insufficiency, led to discoveries related to structure and storytelling."

By Michaele Weissman | August 16, 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

Reading Robert McCloskey’s Maine Trilogy as an Antidote to Climate Change Despair

Reading Robert McCloskey’s Maine Trilogy as an Antidote to Climate Change Despair

“I once again reach for these stories, and remember that we exist in a chain of forces that must be—and can be—respected.”

By Ethan Warren | August 16, 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

Alex Segura on Spider-Man 2099, secret identities, and writing comics

By Authors in the Tent | August 16, 2023

Jo Caulfield Reads From The Funny Thing About Death

By Damian Barr's Literary Salon | August 16, 2023

How My Friend Hilary Mantel Got Inside People's Minds

By Miranda Miller | August 16, 2023

On Drinking, the Devil, and <em>Paradise Lost</em>

On Drinking, the Devil, and Paradise Lost

Ed Simon Searches for Milton's Grave While Getting Blackout Drunk in Pubs

By Ed Simon | August 15, 2023

How Performances of <em>Othello</em> Can Spotlight White Supremacy, Past and Present

How Performances of Othello Can Spotlight White Supremacy, Past and Present

Farah Karim-Cooper on Analyzing and Appreciating Shakespeare Through the Lens of Race

By Farah Karim-Cooper | August 15, 2023

What I Saw of Motherhood and Climate in Antarctica

What I Saw of Motherhood and Climate in Antarctica

Elizabeth Rush Discusses Her New Book With Kerri Arsenault

By Elizabeth Rush | August 15, 2023

Beto O'Rourke and The Border

Beto O'Rourke and The Border

This Week on the Talk Easy Podcast with Sam Fragoso

By Talk Easy | August 15, 2023

Rachael Herron and Joe Biel on the Business of Publishing

Rachael Herron and Joe Biel on the Business of Publishing

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

By Memoir Nation | August 14, 2023

Mike Palindrome on F. Scott Fitzgerald's Masterpiece

Mike Palindrome on F. Scott Fitzgerald's Masterpiece

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | August 14, 2023

On the Exponential Difficulty of Juggling Many Narrative Voices

On the Exponential Difficulty of Juggling Many Narrative Voices

"I wasn’t simply handling four different views of the world. I was handling somewhere between six and twelve different relationships."

By Lauryn Chamberlain | August 11, 2023

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