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W. H. Auden's 1954 review of
The Fellowship of the Ring
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"No fiction I have read in the last five years has given me more joy"
By
Book Marks
| July 28, 2026
Valeria Luiselli, Emilee Hackney, Annie Jacobsen, and more: 20 new books out today!
By
Julia Hass
| July 28, 2026
Sarah Stillman on Finding the Story
In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics
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The Critic and Her Publics
| July 28, 2026
On Reckoning With the Literary World’s Unacknowledged Class System
D/Annie Liontas, Sara Nović, Chet’la Sebree and Maria Adelmann Discuss Class, Access and Getting Through the Door
By
D/Annie Liontas
| July 27, 2026
This Week in Literary History: Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is Published in
The Atlantic Monthly
”It staggered me to think that perhaps I had always missed what made poetry poetry.”
By
Literary Hub
| July 27, 2026
What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
Featuring Colson Whitehead, Michael Cunningham, Claire Vaye Watkins, and More
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Book Marks
| July 24, 2026
Best Reviewed
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A Tarot Reader Considers Sylvia Plath’s Relationship to the Deck
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Lisa Stardust
| July 24, 2026
Michael Cunningham on the Question of Scale in Writing
By
Michael Cunningham
| July 24, 2026
On the Duplicitous Heroine in Wilkie Collins’s
No Name
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Olivia Rutigliano
| July 24, 2026
The Queer Poetics in Writing About Past and Present Brazilian Politics
Lara Norgaard on Translating Cris Judar’s
They Marched Under the Sun
By
Lara Norgaard
| July 24, 2026
Penelope Speaks: Rebecca Solnit on the Western Literary Tradition of Silencing Women
“Classical culture is a lot of things including, literally, rape culture.”
By
Rebecca Solnit
| July 23, 2026
Author or Actor: Who Should Narrate Audiobooks?
Maris Kreizman on the Importance of a Good Reader
By
Maris Kreizman
| July 23, 2026
The First Reviews of Every Raymond Chandler Novel
“A moody, brooding book, in which Marlowe is less a detective than a disturbed man of 42 on a quest for some evidence of truth and humanity.”
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Book Marks
| July 23, 2026
God, Sex, Porn, Art, and Aids: Revisiting the Culture Wars of the 1980s and 90s
A Conversation With Isaac Butler and Rosa Campbell
By
Isaac Butler and Rosa Campbell
| July 23, 2026
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
“People are objects, terrified of one another as they wake up to nightmarish scenes.”
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Book Marks
| July 23, 2026
The Annotated Nightstand: What Victoria Chang is Reading Now, and Next
Featuring Amina Cain, Karen Solie, Cecily Parks, and More
By
Diana Arterian
| July 23, 2026
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Why The Mechanic, not The Jackal, Is the Ultimate 1970s Movie Hitman
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J.M. Berger
Richard Chizmar on horror, alter egos, and ending his Boogeyman series
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by
John B. Valeri
Adam Plantinga on writing gritty, tough-guy protagonists in modern crime fiction
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Adam Plantinga
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"A vivid, sometimes grisly, sometimes enraging portrait of 19th-century British society ... Probing and excellent."