5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"Rare indeed to find a real reporter who is also a real thinker. And the bastard’s funny, too."

By Book Marks | August 27, 2026

Stories From Memory: On Finding Inspiration in My Husband’s Moroccan Family

Stories From Memory: On Finding Inspiration in My Husband’s Moroccan Family

“The past belongs to no one, and as such, it also belongs to everyone.”

By Elizabeth Letts | August 27, 2026

A Poetry of Witness and Invention: Wallis Wilde-Menozzi on Translating Antonella Anedda

A Poetry of Witness and Invention: Wallis Wilde-Menozzi on Translating Antonella Anedda

“Anedda’s capacity to create a deeper frame of reference builds as she lets the world speak.”

By Wallis Wilde-Menozzi | August 27, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

For the week ending August 23, 2026

By Literary Hub | August 27, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

For the week ending August 23, 2026

By Literary Hub | August 27, 2026

Aruni Kashyap on India’s Cockroach Youth Movement

Aruni Kashyap on India’s Cockroach Youth Movement

In Conversation with V.V. Ganeshananthan and Jennifer Maritza McCauley on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 27, 2026

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  • Under Story
  • American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump
  • The Bed Trick: Sex and Deception on Trial
  • I Liked Rex
  • Asmodeus
  • 53 Days: How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy

Catherine Lacey on an Antifascist Classic of Catalan Literature

By Catherine Lacey | August 26, 2026

7 Novels About Obsessive Athletes

By Drew Buxton | August 26, 2026

Translation as a Journey: Jessica Sequeira on Vlady Kociancich’s The Eighth Wonder

By Jessica Sequeira | August 26, 2026

S. Shakthidharan on Hermann Hesse’s <em>Siddhartha</em>

S. Shakthidharan on Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha

In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | August 26, 2026

Rachel Cusk, Liane Moriarty, Jill Lepore, and more: 20 new books out today!

Rachel Cusk, Liane Moriarty, Jill Lepore, and more: 20 new books out today!

By Julia Hass | August 25, 2026

Agnes Callard on Socrates’s Turf

Agnes Callard on Socrates’s Turf

In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics

By The Critic and Her Publics | August 25, 2026

Dorthe Nors on Striving to Write Emotionally Resonant Fiction

Dorthe Nors on Striving to Write Emotionally Resonant Fiction

“As we know from the study of Goldilocks, fiction carries the deepest truths.”

By Dorthe Nors | August 24, 2026

Fiction as a Filter: On Writing the American West’s Water Crisis

Fiction as a Filter: On Writing the American West’s Water Crisis

Claire Boyles Considers the Ways Her Environmental Activism Informs Her Literary Life

By Claire Boyles | August 24, 2026

Christelle Dabos on Empathy, Doing Good, and How We Fill Ourselves Up

Christelle Dabos on Empathy, Doing Good, and How We Fill Ourselves Up

“What if every human being were born with an irresistible need to do good?”

By Christelle Dabos | August 24, 2026

How Talking About Death Helps Us Live a Fuller Life

How Talking About Death Helps Us Live a Fuller Life

E.K. Schrader on Ten Years Without Max Ritvo

By E. K. Schrader | August 21, 2026

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