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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“As in David Lynch’s ‘Blue Velvet,’ sometimes there are weird men in his closets.”

By Book Marks | August 8, 2024

Jasmin Graham on Understanding Sharks

Jasmin Graham on Understanding Sharks

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 8, 2024

Liz Rosenberg on Louisa May Alcott's Essays

Liz Rosenberg on Louisa May Alcott's Essays

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | August 8, 2024

Making Space for Palestinian Happiness

Making Space for Palestinian Happiness

Nabil Echchaibi on Finding Joy Amidst the Crush of Occupation

By Nabil Echchaibi | August 7, 2024

Climate Change, AI, and Technological Surveillance: Reading About the Very Near Future

Climate Change, AI, and Technological Surveillance: Reading About the Very Near Future

Helen Phillips Recommends Octavia Butler, Jessamine Chan, Arthur I. Miller, and More

By Helen Phillips | August 7, 2024

Experiencing Place in Fiction: On Allowing Your Characters to Get Lost

Experiencing Place in Fiction: On Allowing Your Characters to Get Lost

Lena Valencia on Writing Place Like a Character, Rebecca Solnit, and the American Southwest

By Lena Valencia | August 7, 2024

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Lifting the Curse of Luigi da Porto: On the Life and Legacy of a 15th-Century Italian Poet

By Kate Weinberg | August 7, 2024

The Art of Giving Up (and Starting Over) as a Novelist

By Kat Tang | August 7, 2024

Sonya Kelly on Jean-Dominique Bauby's The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | August 7, 2024

Helen Phillips on Writing Speculative Fiction in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Helen Phillips on Writing Speculative Fiction in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Hum”

By Jane Ciabattari | August 6, 2024

The Lights Don’t Just Go Out: A Lifelong Fainter on How Fiction Gets Fainting All Wrong

The Lights Don’t Just Go Out: A Lifelong Fainter on How Fiction Gets Fainting All Wrong

Sophie Brickman on “Charlotte's Web,” JD Salinger, and Capturing Fainting from the Fainter’s Perspective

By Sophie Brickman | August 6, 2024

A Monstrous Spiral: How Narrative Form Can Bring a Story to Life

A Monstrous Spiral: How Narrative Form Can Bring a Story to Life

Jane Alison on Fictionalizing the Tumultuous and Toxic Relationship Between Architects Eileen Gray and Le Corbusier

By Jane Alison | August 6, 2024

Sanity Is Relative: Melissa Broder on Elaine Kraf’s <em>The Princess of 72nd Street</em>

Sanity Is Relative: Melissa Broder on Elaine Kraf’s The Princess of 72nd Street

Considering the Blurred Boundaries Between States of Mania and States of Spiritual Grace

By Melissa Broder | August 6, 2024

Regina Porter! Kafka! True crime with eels! 26 new books out today.

Regina Porter! Kafka! True crime with eels! 26 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | August 6, 2024

Alisa Alering on Being the Mountain

Alisa Alering on Being the Mountain

In Conversation with Lindsay Hunter on I'm a Writer But

By I'm a Writer But | August 6, 2024

Boccaccio’s Modern Life: What <em>The Decameron</em> Reveals About Contemporary Anxiety

Boccaccio’s Modern Life: What The Decameron Reveals About Contemporary Anxiety

Ed Simon Considers the Act of Storytelling as a Means of Preserving Our Humor and Humanity in Tumultuous Times

By Ed Simon | August 5, 2024

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