5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“You cannot applaud his debut novel without getting blood on your hands.”

By Book Marks | May 4, 2023

Failure, Patience, and Joy: Tania James on What It Means to Be a Writer

Failure, Patience, and Joy: Tania James on What It Means to Be a Writer

From James’s 2023 Speech at the One Story Debutante Ball

By Tania James | May 4, 2023

Alice Oseman on Asexuality, Authentic Storytelling and Book Banning

Alice Oseman on Asexuality, Authentic Storytelling and Book Banning

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | May 4, 2023

“Happy Accidents.” Shelley Noble on Stumbling Into a Story

“Happy Accidents.” Shelley Noble on Stumbling Into a Story

“Different than inspiration; quirky, shocking, sometimes clunky, they intercede rather than inspire.”

By Shelley Noble | May 4, 2023

Priscilla Gilman on Living the Charmed Life of a Critic’s Daughter

Priscilla Gilman on Living the Charmed Life of a Critic’s Daughter

In Conversation with Roxanne Coady on Just the Right Book

By Just the Right Book | May 4, 2023

Aaron Hamburger on Trying to Solve a Family Mystery Through Fiction

Aaron Hamburger on Trying to Solve a Family Mystery Through Fiction

“Writing my novel was a way to connect to this younger version of my grandmother.”

By Aaron Hamburger | May 4, 2023

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
  • Repetition
  • Night Night Fawn
  • El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory
  • Gunk
  • The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary

On Shuttered Libraries, Censorship, the Threat of Book Bans

By Mark Dunn | May 4, 2023

On Kind of Telling the Truth: Why Hannah Pittard Switched to Memoir

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | May 4, 2023

This is how you publicize the reissue of a classic dystopian novel.

By Jonny Diamond | May 3, 2023

Camille T. Dungy: Against the Isolated Nature Writer

Camille T. Dungy: Against the Isolated Nature Writer

Lauren LeBlanc Speaks With the Author of Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden

By Lauren LeBlanc | May 3, 2023

Not White But Not (Entirely) Black: On the Complex History of

Not White But Not (Entirely) Black: On the Complex History of "Passing" in America

Herb Harris Explores How His Grandparents' Defied Racial Categorization

By Herb Harris | May 3, 2023

“Every Border is a Story.” On Dividing Lines Both Real and Imagined

“Every Border is a Story.” On Dividing Lines Both Real and Imagined

James Crawford Considers the Continuing Relevance of Literature’s Borders

By James Crawford | May 3, 2023

“It’s Not All Over...” On Persisting in Writing and in Life

“It’s Not All Over...” On Persisting in Writing and in Life

Mark Ernest Pothier in Conversation With His Younger Self

By Mark Ernest Pothier | May 3, 2023

The Annotated Nightstand: What Hannah Matthews is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Hannah Matthews is Reading Now and Next

Margaret Renkl, Ye Chun, Sabia C. Wade, and More.

By Diana Arterian | May 3, 2023

Angeline Boulley on the Need to Get Beyond Trauma in Native Literature

Angeline Boulley on the Need to Get Beyond Trauma in Native Literature

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | May 3, 2023

What Lies Behind the Postcard: Jasmin Iolani Hakes on the New Meaning of Summer Reading

What Lies Behind the Postcard: Jasmin Iolani Hakes on the New Meaning of Summer Reading

“Novels have the ability to transport, but they can also deepen our understanding of a place in a way that is difficult to replicate.”

By Jasmin Iolani Hakes | May 3, 2023

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