5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Can a novel be both blunt and exquisite?”

By Book Marks | May 9, 2024

How the Beloved Memory of Dead Pets Can Help Guide the Writing Process

How the Beloved Memory of Dead Pets Can Help Guide the Writing Process

Simon Van Booy on Letting Go and Following the Story Wherever It Takes Him

By Simon Van Booy | May 9, 2024

Why You Should Keep a Garden Journal (Even if You Don’t Have a Garden)

Why You Should Keep a Garden Journal (Even if You Don’t Have a Garden)

Fiona Warnick on the Question of What Is Worth Documenting

By Fiona Warnick | May 9, 2024

The Annotated Nightstand: What Wendy Chen is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Wendy Chen is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Julián Delgado Lopera, Bo-Young Kim, Brandon Shimoda, and Others

By Diana Arterian | May 9, 2024

Sophie Ratcliffe on Loss and Love

Sophie Ratcliffe on Loss and Love

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | May 9, 2024

In Praise of Pulitzer Prize-Winner Jayne Anne Phillips

In Praise of Pulitzer Prize-Winner Jayne Anne Phillips

Jonathan Corcoran on the Teacher Who Taught Him That Writing Begins Far From the Page

By Jonathan Corcoran | May 8, 2024

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  • A Good Person

Soil As Archive: On the Work of Recognizing Alternate Forms of Sentience

By Angie Sijun Lou | May 8, 2024

Punished for Pregnancy: On the Radical Power of The Millstone by Margaret Drabble in a Post-Roe World

By Carrie Mullins | May 8, 2024

Why Are So Many Mexican Novels Set in Cantinas?

By Nicolás Medina Mora | May 8, 2024

Justin Taylor on Weird Fiction

Justin Taylor on Weird Fiction

This Week on The Cosmic Library with Adam Colman

By The Cosmic Library | May 8, 2024

Bookshelves for Your Book Selves: Monica Wood on Why She Organizes Books by Emotion

Bookshelves for Your Book Selves: Monica Wood on Why She Organizes Books by Emotion

The Author of “How to Read a Book” Shares Style Advice for Bibliophiles' Bookcases

By Monica Wood | May 7, 2024

Floral Consciousness: Zoë Schlanger on What the Intelligence of Plants Can Teach Us About Ourselves

Floral Consciousness: Zoë Schlanger on What the Intelligence of Plants Can Teach Us About Ourselves

Lucy McKeon Talks to the Author of “The Light Eaters”

By Lucy McKeon | May 7, 2024

Writing With “Sprezz.” On the Art of Saying Just Enough

Writing With “Sprezz.” On the Art of Saying Just Enough

Magdalena Zyzak Wonders If It’s Possible to Craft Effortlessly Cool Prose

By Magdalena Zyzak | May 7, 2024

Colm Tóibín! Jamaica Kincaid plus Kara Walker! Lily Dancyger! 27 new books out today.

Colm Tóibín! Jamaica Kincaid plus Kara Walker! Lily Dancyger! 27 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | May 7, 2024

What Latin American Literature Can Teach the Current Leaders of Latin America

What Latin American Literature Can Teach the Current Leaders of Latin America

Ariel Dorfman Has Some Recommendations for Culturally Illiterate Presidents and Autocrats

By Ariel Dorfman | May 6, 2024

A Daughter Becomes a Mother: On Inhabiting Both Roles in Fiction and in Life

A Daughter Becomes a Mother: On Inhabiting Both Roles in Fiction and in Life

Heidi Reimer: “A mother is also a daughter. A daughter may eventually become a mother. Then, forever, she is both."

By Heidi Reimer | May 6, 2024

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