5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“One can barely imagine the intolerable weight of this family inheritance... irresistible for so many years yet the only thing one wants to escape.”

By Book Marks | May 7, 2026

In Writing About Cults (and Religion) Telling is Better than Showing

In Writing About Cults (and Religion) Telling is Better than Showing

Harrison Hill in Conversation with Benjamin Hale

By Literary Hub | May 7, 2026

Ocean Vuong: Photographer First, Writer Second?

Ocean Vuong: Photographer First, Writer Second?

Sarah Moroz on a Recent Exhibition of the Poet-Turned-Novelist Who’s Always Had a in Camera Hand

By Sarah Moroz | May 7, 2026

On the Aftermath of Conversion Therapy

On the Aftermath of Conversion Therapy

Davin Malasarn in Conversation With Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez

By Davin Malasarn | May 7, 2026

New York Pastoral: Sitting Outside and Inside With Eileen Myles

New York Pastoral: Sitting Outside and Inside With Eileen Myles

Rosa Campbell Considers the Decades-Long Development of an Iconic Poetic Voice

By Rosa Campbell | May 7, 2026

We Need More Geriatric Heroines: Seven Books About Actually-Old Women

We Need More Geriatric Heroines: Seven Books About Actually-Old Women

Laurie Frankel Recommends Susie Boyt, Tove Jansson, Zadie Smith and More

By Laurie Frankel | May 7, 2026

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Glyph
  • Dog Days
  • All Them Dogs
  • A Perfect Hand
  • Keeper of My Kin: Memoir of an Immigrant Daughter
  • Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old

Where I End, the Writing Begins: What Undergoing Surgery Taught Me About Transcendence

By Diane Les Becquets | May 7, 2026

How I Found Myself—and My Next Setting—at the Beach

By Angela Brown | May 7, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

By Literary Hub | May 7, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

For the week ending May 3, 2026

By Literary Hub | May 7, 2026

Scott Anderson on the Iranian Revolution

Scott Anderson on the Iranian Revolution

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and Jennifer Maritza McCauley on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 7, 2026

The Power of the Stranger as Plot

The Power of the Stranger as Plot

Ilona Bannister Recommends Angie Cruz, Rumaan Alam, Laura Sims, and More

By Ilona Bannister | May 6, 2026

What Objects Can—and Should—Reveal About Their Owners

What Objects Can—and Should—Reveal About Their Owners

Rachel F. Seidman on the Importance of Material Culture in Constructing Oral Histories

By Rachel F. Seidman | May 6, 2026

On Making Time to Read <em>War and Peace</em> and Other Great Literary Works

On Making Time to Read War and Peace and Other Great Literary Works

Laura Vanderkam Offers Some Suggestions to Help Meet Your Reading Goals

By Laura Vanderkam | May 5, 2026

Charles Dickens... and Other Bad Men Who are Good Writers

Charles Dickens... and Other Bad Men Who are Good Writers

Francine Prose Explores the Disconnect of Loving Works Written By Monstrous Authors

By Francine Prose | May 5, 2026

Deafness Should Be Allowed to Be Unremarkable

Deafness Should Be Allowed to Be Unremarkable

Sara Novic on Hiding Her Deafness in Plain Sight

By Sara Nović | May 5, 2026

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