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The Best Reviewed Books<br> of the Month

The Best Reviewed Books
of the Month

Featuring new titles by Joan Didion, Robert Jones Jr., Tove Ditlevsen, George Saunders, and more

By Book Marks | January 29, 2021

‘Why are you making up a story?’ Édouard Louis on the Ghosts at His Writing Table

‘Why are you making up a story?’ Édouard Louis on the Ghosts at His Writing Table

In Conversation with Nadifa Mohamed on How to Proceed

By How to Proceed | January 29, 2021

Pam Mandel on Discovering the True-to-Life YA Story She Was Meant to Tell: Her Own

Pam Mandel on Discovering the True-to-Life YA Story She Was Meant to Tell: Her Own

In Conversation with Sari Botton on Personal Space

By The Virtual Book Channel | January 29, 2021

Living Through Lockdown Showed Me That Writing Is a Lot Like Digging

Living Through Lockdown Showed Me That Writing Is a Lot Like Digging

Anne Youngson Considers Pandemic Hobbies and the Soothing
Nature of Writing Fiction

By Anne Youngson | January 29, 2021

Ben Hopkins on Conjuring the Power of Gothic Architecture<br> in Fiction

Ben Hopkins on Conjuring the Power of Gothic Architecture
in Fiction

The Author of Cathedral in Conversation With Jane Ciabattari

By Jane Ciabattari | January 29, 2021

How Writing a Novel Helped Me Uncover the Secrets<br> of My Family

How Writing a Novel Helped Me Uncover the Secrets
of My Family

Liese O'Halloran Schwarz on the Journey to Understand a
Crucial Childhood Memory

By Liese O'Halloran Schwarz | January 29, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Silver Book
  • The Land in Winter
  • Evensong
  • Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime
  • The History of Money: A Story of Humanity
  • The American Revolution: An Intimate History

Tracy K. Smith and Kawai Strong Washburn on Biden's Debts to His Base (Especially Black Women)

By Fiction Non Fiction | January 28, 2021

‘All of It Is Still the Poet Voice.’ Joy Harjo on Painting, Music, and Poetry

By The Quarantine Tapes | January 28, 2021

What Gods? On Writing Spirituality
in Literary Fiction

By Alexander Weinstein | January 28, 2021

Torrey Peters on Looking For Meaning in Your Mid-Thirties

Torrey Peters on Looking For Meaning in Your Mid-Thirties

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | January 28, 2021

‘But I Will Write Anyway.’ Teaching the Anti-Racist Writing Workshop

‘But I Will Write Anyway.’ Teaching the Anti-Racist Writing Workshop

Helen Betya Rubinstein in Conversation with Felicia Rose Chavez

By Helen Betya Rubinstein | January 28, 2021

In Defense of Writing Books That May Never Be Read

In Defense of Writing Books That May Never Be Read

Mark de Silva: “That language fails to capture experience is no cause for disappointment.”

By Mark de Silva | January 27, 2021

Barry Lopez: ‘We Don’t Need the Writer. What We Need is the Story, Because This Keeps Us Alive’

Barry Lopez: ‘We Don’t Need the Writer. What We Need is the Story, Because This Keeps Us Alive’

From Beyond the Page: The Best of the Sun Valley Writers‘ Conference

By Sun Valley Writers' Conference | January 27, 2021

Growth, Loss, and a Mailbox Mystery: 13 Years in Gray’s River Valley

Growth, Loss, and a Mailbox Mystery: 13 Years in Gray’s River Valley

Robert Michael Pyle Reflects on the Life Cycles of a Place

By Robert Michael Pyle | January 27, 2021

Embracing Imperfection: On Writing in a Second Language

Embracing Imperfection: On Writing in a Second Language

Kaori Fujimoto Recounts the Challenges of Finding Her Voice
in a Different Tongue

By Kaori Fujimoto | January 27, 2021

Margo Jefferson: ‘If I Can’t Find a Way to Do That... Why Am I Writing a Memoir?’

Margo Jefferson: ‘If I Can’t Find a Way to Do That... Why Am I Writing a Memoir?’

From the Thresholds Podcast, Hosted by Jordan Kisner

By Thresholds | January 27, 2021

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