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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"I went through this, she says, so maybe you won’t have to.”

By Book Marks | July 27, 2023

Donovan X. Ramsey on How Media Sensationalized Crack

Donovan X. Ramsey on How Media Sensationalized Crack

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | July 27, 2023

Weird, funny, dark children's books that I can recommend (as an adult, however).

Weird, funny, dark children's books that I can recommend (as an adult, however).

By Janet Manley | July 26, 2023

The New Sex Writing: In Praise of the

The New Sex Writing: In Praise of the "Idiotic Erotic"

Tamara Faith Berger on Letting the Sluts Speak

By Tamara Faith Berger | July 26, 2023

A Queer Reimagining of James Joyce's <em>Ulysses</em> in Northern England

A Queer Reimagining of James Joyce's Ulysses in Northern England

Helen Palmer on Why She Chose 1990s Blackpool for the Setting of Pleasure Beach

By Helen Palmer | July 26, 2023

Mihret Sibhat on the Stories Our Names Tell

Mihret Sibhat on the Stories Our Names Tell

"When writing, I am reminded that understanding is the path to transformation for all."

By Mihret Sibhat | July 26, 2023

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Stacy Szymaszek on the Liberatory Possibilities of Outsider Poetry

By Sallie Fullerton | July 26, 2023

Donal Ryan Reads from The Queen of Dirt Island

By Damian Barr's Literary Salon | July 26, 2023

Roxane Gay on How She Arrived at Herself

By Talk Easy | July 25, 2023

Jonathan Galassi Remembers His Friend, the Great Robert Gottlieb

Jonathan Galassi Remembers His Friend, the Great Robert Gottlieb

“The last and arguably the most successful of the editor-publishers.”

By Jonathan Galassi | July 25, 2023

Terrance Hayes Remembers Lucie Brock-Broido and Her Immortal Poetic Cats

Terrance Hayes Remembers Lucie Brock-Broido and Her Immortal Poetic Cats

“Cats purred seeking the contours of her language between their ears.”

By Terrance Hayes | July 25, 2023

The Burden of Truth: Fictionalizing My Father’s Years at a Federal Leprosy Treatment Center

The Burden of Truth: Fictionalizing My Father’s Years at a Federal Leprosy Treatment Center

Wendy Chin-Tanner on the Dual Gaze Required to Write a Novel Inspired by True Events

By Wendy Chin-Tanner | July 25, 2023

Wang Xiaobo on the Limitless Mind of Italo Calvino

Wang Xiaobo on the Limitless Mind of Italo Calvino

“Literature has infinite potential. What could be wrong with that?”

By Wang Xiaobo | July 25, 2023

Ben Hinshaw on the “Strange Channeling” of Writing

Ben Hinshaw on the “Strange Channeling” of Writing

In Conversation with Lindsay Hunter on I'm a Writer But  

By I'm a Writer But | July 25, 2023

Jasmine Lee-Jones on Lorraine Hansberry's <em>A Raisin in the Sun</em>

Jasmine Lee-Jones on Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun

In Conversation for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | July 25, 2023

On Patricia Highsmith and the Horror—and Revelation—of Obsession

On Patricia Highsmith and the Horror—and Revelation—of Obsession

Hannah Meyer Considers the Power of Destructive Desire
in Fiction and Life

By Hannah Meyer | July 24, 2023

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