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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 Bryan Washington, Madonna, Jhumpa Lahiri, Werner Herzog, and More

By Book Marks | October 13, 2023

Dorothea Lasky on the Power of Horror

Dorothea Lasky on the Power of Horror

The Poet Considers Kubrick's The Shining and Sylvia Plath's “Tulips”

By Dorothea Lasky | October 13, 2023

Living the Questions: Lisa C. Krueger on the Shared Foundations of Therapy and Poetry

Living the Questions: Lisa C. Krueger on the Shared Foundations of Therapy and Poetry

"Therapy, like poetry, requires us to embrace mystery."

By Lisa C. Krueger | October 13, 2023

Nicola Griffith on Writing Immersive Historical Fiction

Nicola Griffith on Writing Immersive Historical Fiction

"Empathy is a powerful tool, and sharp. Be careful how you wield it."

By Nicola Griffith | October 13, 2023

In Praise of Pulp Fiction

In Praise of Pulp Fiction

Isa Arsén on Carving Out a Home in a Bygone Genre

By Isa Arsén | October 12, 2023

Inspired By the <em>Genius Loci</em>: On Unlocking the Spirit of Settings

Inspired By the Genius Loci: On Unlocking the Spirit of Settings

Martin Goodman Considers What It Means to Write About the Holocaust

By Martin Goodman | October 12, 2023

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Safiya Sinclair on Growing Up Rastafari

By The Maris Review | October 12, 2023

Rebecca Makkai on Progress, Misogyny, and #MeToo

By Fiction Non Fiction | October 12, 2023

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks | October 12, 2023

The Pleasures of a Pessimistic Literary Escape: Jessie Gaynor on Edith Wharton’s <em>The Glimpses of the Moon</em>

The Pleasures of a Pessimistic Literary Escape: Jessie Gaynor on Edith Wharton’s The Glimpses of the Moon

"Even when writing an escapist romance, Wharton is inescapably herself"

By Jessie Gaynor | October 11, 2023

How to Write a Memoir When You're Sick With Cancer

How to Write a Memoir When You're Sick With Cancer

Dan O'Brien on Cancer and Honesty

By Dan O'Brien | October 11, 2023

Insomnia, Imposter Syndrome, and All the Ways I Learned to Write My Book

Insomnia, Imposter Syndrome, and All the Ways I Learned to Write My Book

"In order to tell the truth out loud, on the page, I needed to learn to be compassionate with myself"

By Rebecca Clarren | October 11, 2023

Adam Thirlwell on Witold Gombrowicz's <em> The Possessed</em>

Adam Thirlwell on Witold Gombrowicz's The Possessed

Revisiting a Polish Modernist Classic

By Adam Thirlwell | October 11, 2023

How Horror Helps Us Confront and Understand Grief and Loss

How Horror Helps Us Confront and Understand Grief and Loss

Alexandra Dos Santos on Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House

By Alexandra Dos Santos | October 11, 2023

Hua Hsu on Finding the Future in the Past

Hua Hsu on Finding the Future in the Past

This Week on the Talk Easy Podcast with Sam Fragoso

By Talk Easy | October 11, 2023

Newly minted Nobel Laureate Jon Fosse on the best writing advice he's ever received.

Newly minted Nobel Laureate Jon Fosse on the best writing advice he's ever received.

By Emily Temple | October 10, 2023

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