5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"It’s nearly impossible to come out of it without empathy for and real outrage on behalf of Spears."

By Book Marks | October 26, 2023

Magic to Serve, Not Solve, a Story: KJ Dell'Antonia on Magical Rules in Literature

Magic to Serve, Not Solve, a Story: KJ Dell'Antonia on Magical Rules in Literature

On Vampires, Witches, and the (Literary) Craft of the (Magickal) Craft

By KJ Dell'Antonia | October 25, 2023

Enough “How-To” Books: It’s Time For More “How-Come”

Enough “How-To” Books: It’s Time For More “How-Come”

Jessica Elefante on Books for Understanding Contemporary Life

By Jessica Elefante | October 25, 2023

Christopher Kennedy on Defining Prose Poetry and Working-Class Stories

Christopher Kennedy on Defining Prose Poetry and Working-Class Stories

Peter Mishler Talks to the Author of The Strange God Who Makes Us

By Peter Mishler | October 25, 2023

Nonfiction That Rivals <em>Little Women</em>: The Forgotten Essays of Louisa May Alcott

Nonfiction That Rivals Little Women: The Forgotten Essays of Louisa May Alcott

Liz Rosenberg on the Literary Marvels of Alcott's Memoirs

By Liz Rosenberg | October 24, 2023

Instead of Writing, Margaret Renkl Forages for Fungi

Instead of Writing, Margaret Renkl Forages for Fungi

“Always I find more answers in a forest than I find in my own hot attic of a mind.”

By Margaret Renkl | October 24, 2023

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • This Is Where the Serpent Lives
  • Lost Lambs
  • Winter: The Story of a Season
  • The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
  • The Hitch
  • Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China

Marie Ndiaye on a Novel's Many Twists and Turns

By Jane Ciabattari | October 24, 2023

Stories About Stories (About Stories): A Reading List of Meta-Narrators

By Eskor David Johnson | October 24, 2023

Jhumpa Lahiri on the Freedom of Writing

By Talk Easy | October 24, 2023

Why It Matters How We Tell the Story of Sinead O'Connor

Why It Matters How We Tell the Story of Sinead O'Connor

Allyson McCabe on the Power of Accepting that a Memoir May Contain Contradictions

By Allyson McCabe | October 23, 2023

Erin Sharkey on the Black Experience of Nature

Erin Sharkey on the Black Experience of Nature

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | October 23, 2023

Maggie Smith on Playing with Narration in Memoir

Maggie Smith on Playing with Narration in Memoir

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

By Memoir Nation | October 23, 2023

Eli Grober on The Art of Satire

Eli Grober on The Art of Satire

"Satire can speak truth to power."

By Eli Grober | October 20, 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 New Titles by Teju Cole, Sly Stone, Marie NDiaye and More

By Book Marks | October 20, 2023

Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka on a Lifetime of Art and Activism

Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka on a Lifetime of Art and Activism

Aysegül Sert Talks to the Nigerian Writer in Paris

By Aysegul Sert | October 19, 2023

Masha Gessen and Nathan Thrall on The Whole Story of Israel and Palestine

Masha Gessen and Nathan Thrall on The Whole Story of Israel and Palestine

In Conversation on Thrall’s Book, A Day in the Life of Abed Salama

By Literary Hub | October 19, 2023

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