5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“This is a very smart book. I’m not sure that’s a compliment.”

By Book Marks | June 6, 2024

It’s Time We Added Full Credit Pages to Books

It’s Time We Added Full Credit Pages to Books

Maris Kreizman on the Importance of Acknowledging the Labor That Goes in a Single Title

By Maris Kreizman | June 6, 2024

My Friend, the Legendary Porn Queen

My Friend, the Legendary Porn Queen

Catherine Gigante-Brown on Jane Kamensky’s Biography of Candida Royalle

By Catherine Gigante-Brown | June 6, 2024

“Wade Into the Muck With Me.” On Reading and Re-Reading Elena Ferrante

“Wade Into the Muck With Me.” On Reading and Re-Reading Elena Ferrante

Gina Frangello Considers Her Personal History in Relation to the Neapolitan Quartet

By Gina Frangello | June 6, 2024

Necessary Yet Invisible: On the Unpaid Labor of Motherhood and Writing

Necessary Yet Invisible: On the Unpaid Labor of Motherhood and Writing

Claire Kilroy Considers Women’s Work at Home and on the Page

By Claire Kilroy | June 6, 2024

Ten Years Later: Reading Laura van den Berg’s Timeless Classic, <em>The Isle of Youth</em>

Ten Years Later: Reading Laura van den Berg’s Timeless Classic, The Isle of Youth

Kyle Dillon Hertz on the Book That Guided His Ambition to Be a Writer

By Kyle Dillon Hertz | June 6, 2024

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  • Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991
  • The Great Wherever
  • A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies
  • The Simp: A Novel Without a Hero

The Annotated Nightstand: What Morgan Talty Is Reading Now, and Next

By Diana Arterian | June 6, 2024

Akuna Robinson on Going the Distance

By Fiction Non Fiction | June 6, 2024

Why are so many adults still obsessed with Busytown?

By James Folta | June 5, 2024

“At the Coal Seam of Motherhood.” On Writing About My Kids

“At the Coal Seam of Motherhood.” On Writing About My Kids

Janet Manley Considers Mommy Bloggers, Domestic Novels, and Children as Muses

By Janet Manley | June 5, 2024

In Defense of Being a Slow Novel Writer

In Defense of Being a Slow Novel Writer

Peyton Marshall on Overcoming the Shame of Taking Time to Write and Revise Her Debut, “Goodhouse”

By Peyton Marshall | June 5, 2024

Appreciating the Understated Complexity of <em>The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing</em>

Appreciating the Understated Complexity of The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing

Nick Hornby Remembers His Friend and Fellow Author, Melissa Bank

By Nick Hornby | June 5, 2024

Ursula Buchan on John Buchan

Ursula Buchan on John Buchan

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | June 5, 2024

Chasing Storms: Christiana Spens on The Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens

Chasing Storms: Christiana Spens on The Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens

“Eventually the storm is over. Like any passion or disaster, it must always pass.”

By Christiana Spens | June 4, 2024

Morgan Talty on Writing a Native American Novel That Subverts Expectations

Morgan Talty on Writing a Native American Novel That Subverts Expectations

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of "Fire Exit"

By Jane Ciabattari | June 4, 2024

Lady pirates! Kafkaesque stories! Ovid's advice! 26 new books out today.

Lady pirates! Kafkaesque stories! Ovid's advice! 26 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | June 4, 2024

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