5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Leslie Jamison on a Bear Attack Memoir, Alex Chee on a Portrait of Queerness and Depression, and More

By Book Marks | October 6, 2022

Lessons in Writing and Life from My Grandfather, E.L. Doctorow

Lessons in Writing and Life from My Grandfather, E.L. Doctorow

Alison Fairbrother on Her Papa's Messy, Complicated Humanness

By Alison Fairbrother | October 6, 2022

Literary Dispatches from the New York Film Festival

Literary Dispatches from the New York Film Festival

Or, What’s Worth Seeing in Theaters (and at Home) Over the Next Few Months

By Elissa Suh | October 6, 2022

Why There Are No Clear Heroes or Villains in <em>Princess Mononoke</em>

Why There Are No Clear Heroes or Villains in Princess Mononoke

Ryan Lee Wong in Conversation with Mychal Denzel Smith on the Open Form Podcast

By Open Form | October 6, 2022

9 Novels of Art and Seduction

9 Novels of Art and Seduction

Lauren Acampora on Books Filled with Infatuation and Obsession

By Lauren Acampora | October 6, 2022

WATCH: Polina Barskova on How We Cope with Experiences That Defy Comprehension

WATCH: Polina Barskova on How We Cope with Experiences That Defy Comprehension

In Conversation with Catherine Ciepiela and Masha Gessen at Greenlight Bookstore

By The Virtual Book Channel | October 6, 2022

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • House of Day, House of Night
  • The Award
  • Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
  • Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
  • Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
  • The Six Loves of James I

Blood on the Glass Ceiling: Ambitious Women in Literature

By Stephanie Feldman | October 6, 2022

David Dennis, Jr.: Why American Civil Rights Activists Should Be Treated as War Veterans

By Just the Right Book | October 6, 2022

Cleyvis Natera on Capturing a Community and Family in Crisis

By Micro Podcast | October 6, 2022

Hernan Diaz on Why We Believe Things We Don’t Fully Understand

Hernan Diaz on Why We Believe Things We Don’t Fully Understand

This Week on the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | October 6, 2022

Elias Canetti on Being a Writer in a Tumultuous and Troubling World

Elias Canetti on Being a Writer in a Tumultuous and Troubling World

“The poet is nothing if he does not ceaselessly apply myth to the world around him.”

By Elias Canetti | October 5, 2022

Sex and the 16th Century: How John Donne Learned To Write Love Poetry

Sex and the 16th Century: How John Donne Learned To Write Love Poetry

Katherine Rundell on Love and Literature in the Elizabethan Era

By Katherine Rundell | October 5, 2022

Samantha Hunt on What It Means to Believe in Ghosts

Samantha Hunt on What It Means to Believe in Ghosts

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds

By Thresholds | October 5, 2022

From Ovid to Hawthorne, on the Power and Possibility of Retelling Classic Stories

From Ovid to Hawthorne, on the Power and Possibility of Retelling Classic Stories

“Voices we have not heard take the lead.”

By Laurie Lico Albanese | October 5, 2022

The Heart of Genre: Regina Kanyu Wang, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Sheree Renée Thomas on Curating Anthologies

The Heart of Genre: Regina Kanyu Wang, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Sheree Renée Thomas on Curating Anthologies

This Week from Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre

By Tor Presents: Voyage into Genre | October 5, 2022

How Growing Up in the “Dysfunctional, Small Southern Town” of Washington D.C. Informed A.M. Homes’s New Novel

How Growing Up in the “Dysfunctional, Small Southern Town” of Washington D.C. Informed A.M. Homes’s New Novel

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | October 5, 2022

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