5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“In this artful and sad novel, forbearance is courage.”

By Book Marks | May 8, 2025

On the Latest Threat to Literary Culture’s Fragile Ecosystem: Donald Trump

On the Latest Threat to Literary Culture’s Fragile Ecosystem: Donald Trump

Maris Kreizman Wonders What Can Be Done in the Face of Trump’s Devastating NEA Cuts?

By Maris Kreizman | May 8, 2025

From the French Resistance to the Horrors of Hiroshima: Eight Globe-Spanning Books on World War II

From the French Resistance to the Horrors of Hiroshima: Eight Globe-Spanning Books on World War II

Natasha Lester Recommends Ariel Lawhon, Emma Pei Yin, Anne Sebba, and More

By Natasha Lester | May 8, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Jennifer Hope Choi Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Jennifer Hope Choi Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Ross Gay, Isabella Hammad, Chet’la Sebree, and Others

By Diana Arterian | May 8, 2025

Literary Alchemy: On Fusing Research and Film Techniques to Write a Novel

Literary Alchemy: On Fusing Research and Film Techniques to Write a Novel

How Mo Ogrodnik Depicts Violence Against Women from Multiple Perspectives

By Mo Ogrodnik | May 8, 2025

Hamilton Nolan on How To Write Op-Eds

Hamilton Nolan on How To Write Op-Eds

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 8, 2025

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

The Rise of the Submission Industrial Complex

By Benjamin Davis | May 7, 2025

Poet of the Queer Brotherhood: How William Blake Influenced Oscar Wilde’s Circle

By Philip Hoare | May 7, 2025

Save or Shred? On the Allure and Conundrum of Unpublished Novels

By Randee Dawn | May 7, 2025

Asking Toni’s Questions: Decentering Whiteness in Literary Spaces

Asking Toni’s Questions: Decentering Whiteness in Literary Spaces

“It is the discomfort of asking and of making space for the answers...that will allow us to stay in the room together.”

By Rosa Castellano | May 7, 2025

<em>The Cosmic Library</em> on Dreams and Math in Dostoevsky

The Cosmic Library on Dreams and Math in Dostoevsky

Featuring Robin Feuer Miller, Paulina Rowińska, and more

By The Cosmic Library | May 7, 2025

Sasha Weiss on Mischief in the Pages

Sasha Weiss on Mischief in the Pages

In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics

By The Critic and Her Publics | May 6, 2025

The Power of <em>Persuasion</em>: Why Lawyers Love Jane Austen

The Power of Persuasion: Why Lawyers Love Jane Austen

Natalie Jenner Explores the Legal and Judicial Side of One of English Literature’s Most Beloved Writers

By Natalie Jenner | May 6, 2025

I Take No Pleasure in Having Written an “Eerily Prescient” Novel

I Take No Pleasure in Having Written an “Eerily Prescient” Novel

Kevin Nguyen on Why We Don’t Need Books to Tell Us About Our Current Political Moment

By Kevin Nguyen | May 6, 2025

Jemimah Wei on Crafting a Story of Family, Sisterhood, and Singapore

Jemimah Wei on Crafting a Story of Family, Sisterhood, and Singapore

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “The Original Daughter”

By Jane Ciabattari | May 6, 2025

Andy Warhol! James Joyce! Josephine Baker! 27 new books out today.

Andy Warhol! James Joyce! Josephine Baker! 27 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | May 6, 2025

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