5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The result is both addictive and slightly sickening.”

By Book Marks | May 18, 2023

Anne Berest’s Best Story Came From Deep in Her Family’s Past

Anne Berest’s Best Story Came From Deep in Her Family’s Past

“Every life is a novel for those who are curious enough.”

By Literary Hub | May 17, 2023

Just on the Horizon: Nine Utopian Books to Deprogram Our Brains

Just on the Horizon: Nine Utopian Books to Deprogram Our Brains

Kristen R. Ghodsee Recommends Thomas More, Aldus Huxley, and More

By Kristen R. Ghodsee | May 17, 2023

“I Kiss My Ghosts’ Sticky Foreheads.” Jane Wong on Poetic Ambivalence and Feeding on the Past

“I Kiss My Ghosts’ Sticky Foreheads.” Jane Wong on Poetic Ambivalence and Feeding on the Past

“Each day, I rub my eyes with poetry, bleary in foggy morning light.”

By Jane Wong | May 17, 2023

The Annotated Nightstand: What Natalie Eilbert is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Natalie Eilbert is Reading Now and Next

Monica Youn, Mary Gaitskill, Patrick Radden Keefe, and More

By Diana Arterian | May 17, 2023

Caribbean Fiction Doesn’t Need to Be Altered for American Audiences

Caribbean Fiction Doesn’t Need to Be Altered for American Audiences

Breanne Mc Ivor Challenges Narrow Visions of Trinidad and Finds Liberation in Saying No to Simplifying Her Books for US Readers

By Breanne Mc Ivor | May 17, 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

Expand your international reading with all 37 entries of the Eurovision Book Contest.

By Eliza Smith | May 16, 2023

24 new books to check out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | May 16, 2023

Abraham Verghese on Marrying Medicine With Literature

By Jane Ciabattari | May 16, 2023

Alexis Pauline Gumbs on Audre Lorde’s <em>The Black Unicorn</em>

Alexis Pauline Gumbs on Audre Lorde’s The Black Unicorn

In Conversation for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | May 16, 2023

Emma Cline: No One Captures Memory Like Mary Gaitskill

Emma Cline: No One Captures Memory Like Mary Gaitskill

The Author of The Guest Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | May 16, 2023

The Character-Revealing Power of Having a Play Within a Novel

The Character-Revealing Power of Having a Play Within a Novel

Olivia Wolfgang-Smith Explores Metadrama, Defying Genre, and the Performances We Do On and Off the Page

By Olivia Wolfgang-Smith | May 16, 2023

Samantha Irby Shares Two Secrets About How She Does What She Does

Samantha Irby Shares Two Secrets About How She Does What She Does

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | May 16, 2023

Outsider Paris: A Reading List of the Dark Side of the City of Light

Outsider Paris: A Reading List of the Dark Side of the City of Light

Celia Bell Recommends Mina Loy, Louis-Sébastien Mercier, and More

By Celia Bell | May 16, 2023

“I Didn’t Want to Hear the Word Poetry.” Rupi Kaur on Life After <em>milk & honey</em>

“I Didn’t Want to Hear the Word Poetry.” Rupi Kaur on Life After milk & honey

This Week on the Talk Easy Podcast with Sam Fragoso

By Talk Easy | May 16, 2023

Matthew Binder on Making Sense of an Absurd World

Matthew Binder on Making Sense of an Absurd World

D. Foy Talks to the Author of Pure Cosmos Club

By D. Foy | May 16, 2023

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