5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“You feel something vital and profound prowling around in the darkness beneath.”

By Book Marks | August 22, 2024

The Annotated Nightstand: What Danez Smith is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Danez Smith is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Andre Perry, Nicole Sealey, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, and Others

By Diana Arterian | August 22, 2024

If You Skip a Friend’s Book Launch Are You the Literary Asshole?

If You Skip a Friend’s Book Launch Are You the Literary Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | August 22, 2024

Iris Jamahl Dunkle and Kelly McMasters on Biographical Ethics

Iris Jamahl Dunkle and Kelly McMasters on Biographical Ethics

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 22, 2024

Glynne Walley on the Hakkenden

Glynne Walley on the Hakkenden

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | August 22, 2024

Writing Happiness: Why It’s Worth It to Look on the Bright Side of Stories

Writing Happiness: Why It’s Worth It to Look on the Bright Side of Stories

Maribeth Fischer on the Joys of Creating Joyful Fiction

By Maribeth Fischer | August 21, 2024

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Exit Party
  • Fallow
  • Our Noble Selves
  • Redwood: The Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Extraordinary Spy
  • The Newer World
  • End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World
  • Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History
  • Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era
  • Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made
  • The Rouse

m. nourbeSe philip on Kamau Brathwaite's Born to Slow Horses

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | August 21, 2024

Fragile Yet Eternal: How Audre Lorde Continues to Inspire

By Alexis Pauline Gumbs | August 20, 2024

Lena Valencia on Chronicling the Beauty and Danger of the Desert

By Jane Ciabattari | August 20, 2024

Danez Smith! Audre Lorde! Kwame Dawes! 27 new books out today.

Danez Smith! Audre Lorde! Kwame Dawes! 27 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | August 20, 2024

Sofia Samatar on Collage, Literary Community, and the Stunning Loneliness of Publishing

Sofia Samatar on Collage, Literary Community, and the Stunning Loneliness of Publishing

Liska Jacobs in Conversation with the Author of “Opacities”

By Liska Jacobs | August 19, 2024

Choose Your Own Adventure: On the Limits of Personal Agency in Migrant Fiction

Choose Your Own Adventure: On the Limits of Personal Agency in Migrant Fiction

Ruben Reyes Jr. Considers the Role of Systemic Power Structures Both On and Off the Page

By Ruben Reyes Jr. | August 19, 2024

Jodi Picoult on the Importance of Recognition

Jodi Picoult on the Importance of Recognition

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | August 19, 2024

Rainbow Rowell and Isabel Cañas on Fiction Outliers

Rainbow Rowell and Isabel Cañas on Fiction Outliers

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

By Memoir Nation | August 19, 2024

Page Turns: On Literary Translations on the American Ballet Theater's Summer Stage

Page Turns: On Literary Translations on the American Ballet Theater's Summer Stage

Emma Golden Considers Balletic Language

By Emma Golden | August 16, 2024

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring New Titles by Jo Hamya, Yoko Ogawa, Richard J. Evans, and More

By Book Marks | August 16, 2024

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