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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“This maximalist approach to storytelling relies on astounding powers of memory and invention.”

By Book Marks | October 3, 2024

I Hate This Jerk in My Book Club: Am I the Literary Asshole?

I Hate This Jerk in My Book Club: Am I the Literary Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | October 3, 2024

Lola Milholland on the Housing Crisis and Communal Living

Lola Milholland on the Housing Crisis and Communal Living

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | October 3, 2024

The Tyranny of the Best-Of List: On Navigating Book Lists with OCD

The Tyranny of the Best-Of List: On Navigating Book Lists with OCD

Cornelia Powers Grapples with the Pressures of Gamified Reading

By Cornelia Powers | October 2, 2024

Ten World-Spanning New Children’s Books Out in October

Ten World-Spanning New Children’s Books Out in October

Caroline Carlson Recommends Some Fall Titles, No Matter Where You Live

By Caroline Carlson | October 2, 2024

A Long, Vital Tradition: Nine Books That Imagine What a Black Utopia Could Be

A Long, Vital Tradition: Nine Books That Imagine What a Black Utopia Could Be

Aaron Robertson Recommends Victoria Wolcott, Nell Irvin Painter, Wilson Jeremiah Moses, and More

By Aaron Robertson | October 2, 2024

Best Reviewed
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  • This Is Where the Serpent Lives
  • Lost Lambs
  • Winter: The Story of a Season
  • The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
  • The Hitch
  • Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China

Demons, Bog Wives, and Seven-Eyed Dragons: October’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

By Natalie Zutter | October 2, 2024

Bedtime Tales, Upheavals, and Ecopoetry: Seven New Poetry Collections to Read This October

By David Woo | October 2, 2024

So, you want to read some horror? Here's a spooky season starter kit for the genre-curious.

By Drew Broussard | October 1, 2024

Ta-Nehisi Coates! Joyce Carol Oates! Karl Ove Knausgaard! 27 new books out today.

Ta-Nehisi Coates! Joyce Carol Oates! Karl Ove Knausgaard! 27 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | October 1, 2024

Footnotes All the Way Down: How Russian Poetry Mines the Past to Reveal the Present

Footnotes All the Way Down: How Russian Poetry Mines the Past to Reveal the Present

Forrest Gander Remembers Two Innovative Moscow Poets, Nina Iskrenko and Alexander Yeremenko

By Forrest Gander | October 1, 2024

Trauma, Transfigured: Pascha Sotolongo on Loneliness, Latin American Lit, and the Fantastic in Fiction and Life

Trauma, Transfigured: Pascha Sotolongo on Loneliness, Latin American Lit, and the Fantastic in Fiction and Life

Joy Castro in Conversation with the Author of “The Only Sound Is the Wind”

By Joy Castro | October 1, 2024

Witchcraft! Ross Gay! Sonic Youth! Bryan Washington! 27 new books out in paperback this October.

Witchcraft! Ross Gay! Sonic Youth! Bryan Washington! 27 new books out in paperback this October.

By Gabrielle Bellot | October 1, 2024

Nora Lange on Writing a Book She Loves

Nora Lange on Writing a Book She Loves

In Conversation with Lindsay Hunter on I'm a Writer But  

By I'm a Writer But | October 1, 2024

Remembering the Life and Work of Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, Translator and Activist

Remembering the Life and Work of Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, Translator and Activist

“Did you always cry, did you always burn?”

By Literary Hub | September 30, 2024

Read the Winners of <em>American Short Fiction’</em>s 2024 Insider Prize

Read the Winners of American Short Fiction’s 2024 Insider Prize

Selected by Peter Orner

By Literary Hub | September 30, 2024

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