5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“A masterly polemic, its scope so sweeping that it does, finally, seem to explain every pungent odor wafting from Silicon Valley.”

By Book Marks | October 9, 2025

Edwidge Danticat on Haiti and Trump, Past and Present

Edwidge Danticat on Haiti and Trump, Past and Present

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | October 9, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Caren Beilin Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Caren Beilin Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Isabella Hammad, Stephen King, Lana Lin, and Others

By Diana Arterian | October 8, 2025

Beyond One-Note Nastiness: On Getting Inside the Head of a Despicable Character

Beyond One-Note Nastiness: On Getting Inside the Head of a Despicable Character

Shannon Bowring Shares Her Experience With Writing From an Antagonist’s Point of View

By Shannon Bowring | October 8, 2025

A Cross-Genre Trek: How Translation Improved My Debut Novel

A Cross-Genre Trek: How Translation Improved My Debut Novel

Laura Venita Green Explores How Learning Italian Has Made Her English Writing Better

By Laura Venita Green | October 8, 2025

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on Hope

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on Hope

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds

By Thresholds | October 8, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Big Kiss, Bye-Bye
  • Bad Bad Girl
  • The Ten Year Affair
  • Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
  • Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
  • Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution

Thomas Pynchon Has Been Warning Us About American Fascism the Whole Time

By Devin Thomas O’Shea | October 7, 2025

On Translating Proust and the Art of Not Reading Ahead

By Bryan Alistair Charles | October 7, 2025

Why We Write the Extra Details

By Kate Cayley | October 7, 2025

Thomas Pynchon, Marisa Meltzer, Chris Kraus, and more: 24 new books out today!

Thomas Pynchon, Marisa Meltzer, Chris Kraus, and more: 24 new books out today!

By Julia Hass | October 7, 2025

Ivan Klima, the best Czech novelist of his generation, has died.

Ivan Klima, the best Czech novelist of his generation, has died.

By Jonny Diamond | October 6, 2025

Patricia Smith on How a Poet Ages

Patricia Smith on How a Poet Ages

Growing Older and Forging Connection Through Poetry

By Patricia Smith | October 6, 2025

Uncanny Prescience: Revisiting Kafka’s Amerika

Uncanny Prescience: Revisiting Kafka’s Amerika

Mark Harman Considers the Striking Social Commentary of the Unfinished Novel

By Mark Harman | October 6, 2025

Teaching 200 Children in Gaza’s Refugee Camps

Teaching 200 Children in Gaza’s Refugee Camps

How Palestinian Teacher Ikram Talaat Ahmed Turned Displacement Tents into Schools

By Ikram Talaat Ahmed | October 6, 2025

What Time Provides: Mining the Creative Unconscious For Inspiration

What Time Provides: Mining the Creative Unconscious For Inspiration

Victoria Redel on Taking Decades to Return To a Once-Abandoned Story

By Victoria Redel | October 6, 2025

How Harassment at the Strip Club Prepared Me For Publishing 

How Harassment at the Strip Club Prepared Me For Publishing 

Michelle Gurule on Writing About Sex Work

By Michelle Gurule | October 6, 2025

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