5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"For all of us who lack superpowers, storytelling may be the surest way to grasp the elastic dimensions of life"

By Book Marks | August 24, 2023

Julie Schumacher on How We Travel Now

Julie Schumacher on How We Travel Now

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 24, 2023

Jenn Shapland on Santa Fe and Fear of Cities

Jenn Shapland on Santa Fe and Fear of Cities

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | August 24, 2023

On the Bad Binary of

On the Bad Binary of "Good" and "Bad" Literature

Josh Cook on Taking Back the Idea of "Good Taste" from Cultural Authoritarians

By Josh Cook | August 23, 2023

The Long, Winding, Booby-Trapped, and Occasionally Rewarding Road to Publication

The Long, Winding, Booby-Trapped, and Occasionally Rewarding Road to Publication

Lou Mathews on a Hell of a Journey

By Lou Mathews | August 23, 2023

Questioning Authority and Story: Emily Tesh, Vajra Chandrasekera, and Sophie Strand

Questioning Authority and Story: Emily Tesh, Vajra Chandrasekera, and Sophie Strand

Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre S03E02

By Tor Presents: Voyage into Genre | August 23, 2023

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • House of Day, House of Night
  • The Award
  • Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
  • Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
  • Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
  • The Six Loves of James I

Kathryn Bromwich Reads From At the Edge of the Woods

By Damian Barr's Literary Salon | August 23, 2023

Unspendable Currency: Edgar Kunz on Making Ends Meet As a Poet

By Edgar Kunz | August 22, 2023

Accounting for the Unaccountable: Daniel Johnson on Writing about His Friend, James Foley

By Daniel Brock Johnson | August 22, 2023

Sandra Cisneros on Her Mother and Studs Terkel

Sandra Cisneros on Her Mother and Studs Terkel

This Week on the Talk Easy Podcast with Sam Fragoso

By Talk Easy | August 22, 2023

None of the Above: On Writing a Biracial Protagonist

None of the Above: On Writing a Biracial Protagonist

Claire Stanford Considers the Answers to Questions of Racial Representation and Identification

By Claire Stanford | August 21, 2023

The Revelatory Power of Being Sensitive

The Revelatory Power of Being Sensitive

Jenn Shapland on Her New, Boundary-Dissolving Collection, Thin Skin

By Jenn Shapland | August 21, 2023

Gish Jen and Peggy Orenstein on Storytelling and Legacy

Gish Jen and Peggy Orenstein on Storytelling and Legacy

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

By Memoir Nation | August 21, 2023

Vanessa Riley on Haiti's Only Queen

Vanessa Riley on Haiti's Only Queen

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | August 21, 2023

Brando Skyhorse on the Fantastic Art of Revision

Brando Skyhorse on the Fantastic Art of Revision

"Are we no longer confused?"

By Brando Skyhorse | August 18, 2023

We’re Not Promising Anymore: Lizzy Goodman on the Fleeting Amateur Spirit of <em>Meet Me in the Bathroom</em>

We’re Not Promising Anymore: Lizzy Goodman on the Fleeting Amateur Spirit of Meet Me in the Bathroom

“You have to make your story out of what you find.”

By Gyasi Hall | August 18, 2023

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