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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Alexandra Kleeman on Sheila Heti, Rachel Khong on Julie Otsuka, Lauren Michele Jackson on Zora Neale Hurston, and more

By Book Marks | February 17, 2022

Gal Beckerman on Looking to the Past to Help Us Imagine a Different Future

Gal Beckerman on Looking to the Past to Help Us Imagine a Different Future

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | February 17, 2022

David Robert Grimes on How Critical Thinking Can Save the World

David Robert Grimes on How Critical Thinking Can Save the World

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | February 17, 2022

Read the loveliest moons in literature, in honor of today’s Snow Moon.

Read the loveliest moons in literature, in honor of today’s Snow Moon.

By Katie Yee | February 16, 2022

Deep, Deep Time: On the “Cosmic Realism” of Kathryn Davis

Deep, Deep Time: On the “Cosmic Realism” of Kathryn Davis

Anthony Domestico Offers a Close Reading of an Underappreciated Novelist

By Anthony Domestico | February 16, 2022

“Dialogue is Embarrassing.” Sarah Manguso on Finally Writing a Novel

“Dialogue is Embarrassing.” Sarah Manguso on Finally Writing a Novel

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast

By Thresholds | February 16, 2022

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  • Evil Genius

Alex McElroy on R.L. Stine, Casey Plett, and a masterclass of self-deception

By Book Marks | February 16, 2022

How Lewis Carroll Built a World Where Nothing Needs to Make Sense

By Erin Morgenstern | February 16, 2022

Deeply Flawed Mother Figures of Literature: A Reading List

By Mary Kuryla | February 16, 2022

Roni Cohen-Sandler on Raising Self-Reliant Teenage Girls in the Age of the Internet

Roni Cohen-Sandler on Raising Self-Reliant Teenage Girls in the Age of the Internet

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | February 16, 2022

American Literature is a History of the Nation’s Libraries

American Literature is a History of the Nation’s Libraries

Ilan Stavans on One of Democracy’s Bedrock Institutions

By Ilan Stavans | February 16, 2022

On Jessie Redmon Fauset, the Harlem Renaissance Writer Long Overdue for a Resurgence

On Jessie Redmon Fauset, the Harlem Renaissance Writer Long Overdue for a Resurgence

Morgan Jerkins Reads Plum Bun in the Era of “Identity Politics”

By Morgan Jerkins | February 16, 2022

Eric Pliner on What To Do When the Algorithm Doesn’t Have the Answer

Eric Pliner on What To Do When the Algorithm Doesn’t Have the Answer

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | February 16, 2022

Garrett Hongo on His Audio Obsession

Garrett Hongo on His Audio Obsession

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | February 16, 2022

15 new books to love this week.

15 new books to love this week.

By Katie Yee | February 15, 2022

“We Get to Be Young Only Once.” On My Life-Changing Discovery of Laurie Colwin

“We Get to Be Young Only Once.” On My Life-Changing Discovery of Laurie Colwin

How Kim Fay Read—and Ate—Her Way Through Home Cooking During Her Formative Years

By Kim Fay | February 15, 2022

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