August's Best Reviewed Fiction

August's Best Reviewed Fiction

Featuring New Titles from Ann Patchett, James McBride, Paul Murray, and More

By Book Marks | September 1, 2023

August's Best Reviewed Nonfiction

August's Best Reviewed Nonfiction

Featuring George Eliot, August Wilson, Harry Smith, and More

By Book Marks | September 1, 2023

The Never-Ending Transgender Talk Show: A Conversation with <em>Framing Agnes</em> Director Chase Joynt

The Never-Ending Transgender Talk Show: A Conversation with Framing Agnes Director Chase Joynt

On Complicating Easy Notions of “Trans Representation”

By Spencer Williams | September 1, 2023

What Does It Mean to Write after Having Children?

What Does It Mean to Write after Having Children?

Lightsey Darst on the Eternal, Fleeting Moments of New Motherhood

By Lightsey Darst | August 31, 2023

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"Dickens may be dead, but Smith, thankfully, is alive."

By Book Marks | August 31, 2023

<em>Kansas Reflector</em> Editor-in-Chief Sherman Smith on Freedom of the Press

Kansas Reflector Editor-in-Chief Sherman Smith on Freedom of the Press

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 31, 2023

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Country People
  • You Won't Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters
  • Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991
  • A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies
  • It Will Come Back to You: Collected Stories
  • Cloudthief
  • Cool Machine
  • Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast
  • Beginning Middle End
  • They Stole a City: Wilmington's White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live with Its Legacy

Hilary Leichter on Time and Re-Reading

By The Maris Review | August 31, 2023

On the "Inverted Cosmos"—From Aristotle to the Middle Ages

By William Egginton | August 30, 2023

Why the Rise of Morally Gray Women In Fiction Is Good For All of Us

By Megan Barnard | August 30, 2023

Apocalypse Now: Why It’s Cathartic To Read About the End of the World

Apocalypse Now: Why It’s Cathartic To Read About the End of the World

Yume Kitasei on Reading and Writing Through Ongoing Catastrophe

By Yume Kitasei | August 30, 2023

Nancy Bilyeau Reads From <em>The Orchid Hour</em>

Nancy Bilyeau Reads From The Orchid Hour

From Damian Barr’s Literary Salon Podcast

By Damian Barr's Literary Salon | August 30, 2023

How Obscenity Laws Nearly Stopped Nabokov's <em>Lolita</em> from Being Published

How Obscenity Laws Nearly Stopped Nabokov's Lolita from Being Published

Thomas Harding on the Legendary Editor George Weidenfeld, Literary Smuggling, and Morality in Fiction

By Thomas Harding | August 29, 2023

The Real-Life Poetry of Gardening

The Real-Life Poetry of Gardening

Tess Taylor on the Ancient Genre of Garden Poems and the Connective Power of Working with Plants

By Tess Taylor | August 29, 2023

Megan Kamalei Kakimoto On The Many Ways To Tell a Hawaiian Story

Megan Kamalei Kakimoto On The Many Ways To Tell a Hawaiian Story

"The only way to dismantle the perception of a monolithic Hawaiian experience is to uplift a multitude of Hawaiian stories"

By Megan Kamalei Kakimoto | August 29, 2023

What to Read When You’re Expecting: 7 Radical Perspectives on Motherhood

What to Read When You’re Expecting: 7 Radical Perspectives on Motherhood

Jessica Hendry Nelson Recommends Camille Dungy, Rachel Cusk, and More

By Jessica Hendry Nelson | August 29, 2023

Angie Kim on Measures of Happiness and the Many Forms Intelligence Can Take

Angie Kim on Measures of Happiness and the Many Forms Intelligence Can Take

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of Happiness Falls

By Jane Ciabattari | August 29, 2023

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