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

Aracelis Girmay on Reading Toni Morrison and Lucille Clifton

On the Power of Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer, One of the Most Banned Books of Its Era

On Lio Min’s Beating Heart Baby as “Portable Fortress of Dreams”

On the Pure Pleasure of Plot in Gretchen Felker-Martin’s Manhunt

What Was Lost: A Queer Accounting of the NY Times Book Review, 2013-2022

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

On Hail Mary, an Important History of American Women Playing Tackle Football

On the Struggle to Be a Good Man in Vivek Shraya’s I’m Afraid of Men

On T Cooper’s Early Meditations on Being a Trans Man, Real Man Adventures

“By a Trans Woman, About Trans Women, For Trans Readers.” On Imogen Binnie’s Nevada

On the Origins of Genuine Intersectionality in Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s How We Get Free

On Kai Cheng Thom’s Genre-Bending “Confabulous Memoir” Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars

On Decentering and Unlearning in Aisha Sabatini Sloan’s Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit

On the Daily Humanity of Trans Life in Casey Plett’s Dream of a Woman

On Recognition, Truth, and Otherness in Shola Von Reinhold’s LOTE

On Self-Loathing and Kink in Jackie Ess’s Darryl

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