October’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

October’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

Featuring Gertrude Stein, Susan Orlean, Peter Matthiessen, and More

By Book Marks | October 31, 2025

Catherine Newman on the Humor of the Unexpected

Catherine Newman on the Humor of the Unexpected

“Anything catching on fire and crashing through the chimney into the living room is funny—but it’s really funny if it’s raccoons.”

By Catherine Newman | October 31, 2025

Feeding Our Ghosts: How Food Invokes Memories of Ones Loved and Lost

Feeding Our Ghosts: How Food Invokes Memories of Ones Loved and Lost

Daria Lavelle on the Bond Between Taste and the Departed

By Daria Lavelle | October 31, 2025

Yes, You Are the Literary Asshole If You Use AI to Edit Your Fiction

Yes, You Are the Literary Asshole If You Use AI to Edit Your Fiction

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | October 30, 2025

Porn, But Also Literature: On John Cleland’s <em>Fanny Hill</em>

Porn, But Also Literature: On John Cleland’s Fanny Hill

A Conversation Between Chelsea G. Summers and Jessica Stoya

By Chelsea G. Summers and Jessica Stoya | October 30, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“A fascinating book for all the wrong reasons. It was dated before it arrived at the printers, perhaps before it was even written.”

By Book Marks | October 30, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Stations
  • West of Loveland
  • Castles: A Fortified History of the World
  • Sweet Pea
  • The Pen: A Human History
  • Is It Too Late to Make a Run for It?
  • Gloria Don't Speak
  • The Heights
  • The King Under the Mountain: In Search of J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Just a Shot Away: Martin Scorsese's Life in Film

The Most Anticipated Audiobooks of November

By Audiofile Magazine | October 30, 2025

Paradise Lost! R.E.M.! The Village Voice! 21 books out in paperback this November.

By Gabrielle Bellot | October 30, 2025

Max Delsohn on the Importance of Portraying Trans Men

By Fiction Non Fiction | October 30, 2025

Why I Give My Books Away For Free

Why I Give My Books Away For Free

Shane Hinton Won’t Let Money Stand in the Way of a Potential Reader

By Shane Hinton | October 29, 2025

Crafting a Documentary Poetics of Resistance in the Shadow of State Violence

Crafting a Documentary Poetics of Resistance in the Shadow of State Violence

“In situations in which the story of people is being smothered by institutions of power, adversarial documents can provide an opening.”

By Teresa Dzieglewicz | October 29, 2025

Zadie Smith, Catherine Newman, Cameron Crowe, and more: 23 new books out today!

Zadie Smith, Catherine Newman, Cameron Crowe, and more: 23 new books out today!

By Julia Hass | October 28, 2025

Susan Straight on Chronicling the Impact of COVID-19 in Fiction

Susan Straight on Chronicling the Impact of COVID-19 in Fiction

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of Sacrament

By Jane Ciabattari | October 28, 2025

Writers Beware: On the Dangerous Fine Print of Creative Contract Law

Writers Beware: On the Dangerous Fine Print of Creative Contract Law

“If Kafka were alive today, he wouldn’t be unpublished—he’d be under NDA.”

By Aron Solomon | October 27, 2025

Jaquira Díaz on Trust

Jaquira Díaz on Trust

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | October 27, 2025

Roy Wood Jr. on the Legacies We Inherit and Pass On

Roy Wood Jr. on the Legacies We Inherit and Pass On

From the Memoir Nation Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | October 27, 2025

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