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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Of Nella Larsen's Passing, Emily Ratajkowski's My Body, Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Committed, and more

By Book Marks | November 11, 2021

Amitava Kumar on Writing Fiction in a World of Fake News

Amitava Kumar on Writing Fiction in a World of Fake News

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | November 11, 2021

“I Didn’t Give Myself an Out.” Louise Erdrich on Writing (Prolifically) as a Single Mother

“I Didn’t Give Myself an Out.” Louise Erdrich on Writing (Prolifically) as a Single Mother

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | November 11, 2021

The Accidental Origins of the “Subway Book Review”

The Accidental Origins of the “Subway Book Review”

Uli Beutter Cohen on How She Started Documenting New York’s Subway Readers

By Uli Beutter Cohen | November 11, 2021

WATCH: Tracy K. Smith and David Lehman Celebrate <em>The Best American Poetry 2021</em>

WATCH: Tracy K. Smith and David Lehman Celebrate The Best American Poetry 2021

Hosted by Greenlight Bookstore

By The Virtual Book Channel | November 11, 2021

Live at the Red Ink Series: On Writing About Family

Live at the Red Ink Series: On Writing About Family

Featuring Marie-Helene Bertino, Denne Michele Norris, Julie Klam, Qian Julie Wang, and Victoria Chang

By Literary Hub | November 11, 2021

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

“I’m Not Following the Rules of the American Western.” Tom Lin on Subverting a Genre

By Book Dreams | November 11, 2021

In Praise of the Meander: Rebecca Solnit on Letting Nonfiction Narrative Find Its Own Way

By Rebecca Solnit | November 10, 2021

Gregory Pardlo on Trusting What’s on the Other Side of Sobriety... and Poetry

By Thresholds | November 10, 2021

On <em>Slaughterhouse-Five</em>, the “Ultimate PTSD Novel”

On Slaughterhouse-Five, the “Ultimate PTSD Novel”

Tom Roston Considers the Ongoing Popularity of Kurt Vonnegut’s Classic

By Tom Roston | November 10, 2021

How Philip Roth Taught Me To Write—And Heal

How Philip Roth Taught Me To Write—And Heal

Alexandra Marshall on Finding Friendship in the Wake of Tragedy

By Alexandra Marshall | November 10, 2021

“It Will Outrage As Many Readers As It Delights.” On Joseph Heller’s </em>Catch-22</em>

“It Will Outrage As Many Readers As It Delights.” On Joseph Heller’s Catch-22

A 1961 New York Times Review of Heller’s Classic WWII satire

By Book Marks | November 10, 2021

Eley Williams on Classic Ghost Stories and <em>Goodnight Moon</em> as Avant-Garde Horror

Eley Williams on Classic Ghost Stories and Goodnight Moon as Avant-Garde Horror

Book Recommendations From the Author of The Liar's Dictionary

By Book Marks | November 10, 2021

Jasmine Warga on the Relationship Between Language and Her Hyphenated Identity

Jasmine Warga on the Relationship Between Language and Her Hyphenated Identity

This Week on the NewberyTart Podcast

By NewberyTart | November 10, 2021

Strangeness, Uncanniness, Eeriness: This Year at the Festival Neue Literatur

Strangeness, Uncanniness, Eeriness: This Year at the Festival Neue Literatur

The Best of Contemporary German Writing in New York

By Literary Hub | November 10, 2021

Myriam J.A. Chancy on the Intimate Power and Purpose of Fiction

Myriam J.A. Chancy on the Intimate Power and Purpose of Fiction

This Week from the Reading Women Podcast

By Reading Women | November 10, 2021

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