5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Reading it is brutal because McCullers’s life was brutal to endure.”

By Book Marks | February 22, 2024

Debate Me! Why Writers Should Argue With Themselves

Debate Me! Why Writers Should Argue With Themselves

Terry Golway on the Importance of Exploring Opposing Ideas On and Off the Page

By Terry Golway | February 22, 2024

The Annotated Nightstand: What Aisha Sabatini Sloan Is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Aisha Sabatini Sloan Is Reading Now and Next

Featuring Eve Babitz, Renee Gladman, Nicolette Polek, and More

By Diana Arterian | February 22, 2024

Margot Livesey and What Literature Can Tell Us About The Future

Margot Livesey and What Literature Can Tell Us About The Future

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | February 22, 2024

UFO, or Unidentified Female Observer: Kirsten Bakis on the Undersung Life of Anna Fort

UFO, or Unidentified Female Observer: Kirsten Bakis on the Undersung Life of Anna Fort

The Author of "King Nyx" on the Paranormalist Charles Fort, Theodore Dreiser, and Dismissing Women's Intellects

By Kirsten Bakis | February 21, 2024

John Keene on Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s <em>The Most Secret Memory of Men</em>

John Keene on Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s The Most Secret Memory of Men

In Conversation for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | February 21, 2024

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Books of the Week

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  • London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
  • Attention: Writing on Life, Art, and the World
  • The Oyster Diaries
  • Yesteryear
  • Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund

“What If We Weren’t Afraid to Tell the Hard Truths?” Chris Chalk on Playing James Baldwin

By Dan Sheehan | February 21, 2024

Writing Into Negative Space: Shining A Spotlight on History’s Sidelined Women

By Kirsten Bakis | February 21, 2024

What Writing TV Soap Operas Taught Me About Writing Novels

By Ellen Feldman | February 21, 2024

Lily Gladstone on Chekhov and Listening

Lily Gladstone on Chekhov and Listening

This Week on the Talk Easy Podcast with Sam Fragoso

By Talk Easy | February 21, 2024

Leslie Jamison on Self-Construction as a Literary Act

Leslie Jamison on Self-Construction as a Literary Act

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | February 20, 2024

How <em>The Prophet</em> Made Kahlil Gibran a Household Name in America

How The Prophet Made Kahlil Gibran a Household Name in America

The Late Joan Acocella on the Complex and Contradictory Life of a New Age Icon

By Joan Acocella | February 20, 2024

Finding a Writing Life of <br>One’s Own

Finding a Writing Life of
One’s Own

“I was not writing as an act of defiance or service or claim to myself. I was writing because I wanted to.”

By Seema Reza | February 20, 2024

Leslie Jamison! Michiko Kakutani! The wildness of Old English! 23 new books out today.

Leslie Jamison! Michiko Kakutani! The wildness of Old English! 23 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | February 20, 2024

John Cotter on Writing by Accretion

John Cotter on Writing by Accretion

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

By I'm a Writer But | February 20, 2024

K-Ming Chang on Writerly Aesthetics

K-Ming Chang on Writerly Aesthetics

From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | February 20, 2024

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