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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“All the culture war Mad Libs can’t distract from the dull coldness at this book’s core.”

By Book Marks | March 2, 2023

“Where You Been? Why You Back? What You Doin Now?” Lakiesha Carr on Returning Home to Write

“Where You Been? Why You Back? What You Doin Now?” Lakiesha Carr on Returning Home to Write

Because Sometimes You Have to Go Back to East Texas to Find Your Voice

By Lakiesha Carr | March 2, 2023

A Multiverse of Words: Mirza Waheed on the Happy Coincidences of Omnivorous Reading

A Multiverse of Words: Mirza Waheed on the Happy Coincidences of Omnivorous Reading

“I’ve been trying to bring back to life that old, unencumbered young reader who reads what absorbs him, at leisure, at ease.”

By Mirza Waheed | March 2, 2023

Just the Right Book: What We’re Reading

Just the Right Book: What We’re Reading

Roxanne Coady and Bill Goldstein Talk New and Noteworthy Books

By Just the Right Book | March 2, 2023

On Borders Concrete and Intangible: A Reading List of the Inbetween

On Borders Concrete and Intangible: A Reading List of the Inbetween

Fatin Abbas Recommends J.M. Coetzee, Fatima Mernissi, and More

By Fatin Abbas | March 2, 2023

How the Victorians Created the Modern English Novel

How the Victorians Created the Modern English Novel

Katie Lumsden on the Enduring Tropes of an Era

By Katie Lumsden | March 2, 2023

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Hari Kondabolu on Comedy, Race, and Being a Queens Kid in Maine

By Thresholds | March 1, 2023

How Karl Lagerfeld Learned to Love Literature

By William Middleton | March 1, 2023

March’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

By Natalie Zutter | March 1, 2023

The Booker Revisited: Why Everyone Should Read Francis King’s <em>The Nick of Time</em>

The Booker Revisited: Why Everyone Should Read Francis King’s The Nick of Time

In a New Series, Lucy Scholes Reads the Booker Prize Titles of Years Past

By Lucy Scholes | March 1, 2023

V. V. Ganeshananthan: “When Americans Read Other Countries, Those Countries are Flattened Down to One Point”

V. V. Ganeshananthan: “When Americans Read Other Countries, Those Countries are Flattened Down to One Point”

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Eloise King-Clements | March 1, 2023

TikTok has awoken and found itself with a mad crush on Kafka.

TikTok has awoken and found itself with a mad crush on Kafka.

By Janet Manley | February 28, 2023

Pinning Down the Cagey Emotions of Poet Amy Clampitt

Pinning Down the Cagey Emotions of Poet Amy Clampitt

Willard Spiegelman on the Mysteries of Biography in the Poetic Realm

By Willard Spiegelman | February 28, 2023

Donal Ryan on Mourning the Death of an Unpublishable Novel

Donal Ryan on Mourning the Death of an Unpublishable Novel

“This was my art but it really only benefited me, and I couldn’t expect anyone to invest in it or to pay for it.”

By Donal Ryan | February 28, 2023

Spectacular Pseudoscience: The Fall and Rise of Bioelectricity

Spectacular Pseudoscience: The Fall and Rise of Bioelectricity

Sally Adee on the Origins of Frankenstein and the Dark Ethics of Electroshock Technology

By Sally Adee | February 28, 2023

Heinz Insu Fenkl on Exploring Memory, Identity, and Inter-Generational Trauma in Korea

Heinz Insu Fenkl on Exploring Memory, Identity, and Inter-Generational Trauma in Korea

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of Skull Water

By Jane Ciabattari | February 28, 2023

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