5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The grief is stirred in slowly. It’s a sickroom meditation; the author becomes a stranger in a strange land.”

By Book Marks | September 18, 2025

Omar El Akkad on Gaza and Western Empire

Omar El Akkad on Gaza and Western Empire

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | September 18, 2025

Every Complicated Family is Complicated in Its Own Way: A Reading List

Every Complicated Family is Complicated in Its Own Way: A Reading List

Jeremy B. Jones Recommends Rick Bragg, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Crystal Wilkinson and More

By Jeremy B. Jones | September 17, 2025

The Fine Art of Defining a Diva

The Fine Art of Defining a Diva

Jerome Charyn Recommends Joyce Carol Oates, Josephine Baker, Allegra Kent, and More

By Jerome Charyn | September 17, 2025

Miriam Toews Pushes Against Silences

Miriam Toews Pushes Against Silences

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds

By Thresholds | September 17, 2025

The Ultimate Fall 2025 Reading List

The Ultimate Fall 2025 Reading List

95 Books the Critics Think You Should Read This Season

By Emily Temple | September 16, 2025

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

Why We’re Still Reading Jane Austen on Her 250th Birthday

By Lucy Worsley | September 16, 2025

Sasha Bonét on Black Motherhood, Fragmented Storytelling, and Untangling History

By G'ra Asim | September 16, 2025

Why Are There So Few Books About Mothers and Sons?

By Sam Sussman | September 16, 2025

How Viking Introduced John Steinbeck, James Joyce and More to American Readers

How Viking Introduced John Steinbeck, James Joyce and More to American Readers

Paul Slovak on Pascal Covici, the Editor Who Nurtured Some of the Most Iconic Names in Literature

By Paul Slovak | September 16, 2025

Angela Flournoy on Writing a Polyphonic Novel of Black Female Friendship

Angela Flournoy on Writing a Polyphonic Novel of Black Female Friendship

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “The Wilderness”

By Jane Ciabattari | September 16, 2025

Samantha Schweblin! Lydia Davis! Angela Flournoy! 21 new books out today.

Samantha Schweblin! Lydia Davis! Angela Flournoy! 21 new books out today.

By Julia Hass | September 16, 2025

Finding Inspiration (and Joy) While Drafting Among the Fjords

Finding Inspiration (and Joy) While Drafting Among the Fjords

David Greig on His Creative Process Aboard a Nordic Cruise

By David Greig | September 15, 2025

The Art of Caustic Cosiness: On Barbara Pym’s <em>The Sweet Dove Died</em>

The Art of Caustic Cosiness: On Barbara Pym’s The Sweet Dove Died

“It pitches new freedoms against dying rules and routines, with a keen eye for the debris, as its worlds of beauty and cruelty collide.”

By Susie Boyt | September 15, 2025

Pain as Progress: On Bodybuilding, Poetry and Transformation

Pain as Progress: On Bodybuilding, Poetry and Transformation

“Rupture is a prerequisite for reparation. Hurting couldn’t be avoided. Hurting was the point.”

By Isabella DeSendi | September 15, 2025

Roxane Gay on Memoir as Manifesto

Roxane Gay on Memoir as Manifesto

From the Memoir Nation Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | September 15, 2025

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