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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Dystopian novels are not merely the expression of vivid imaginations, they are often warnings about what’s to come.”

By Book Marks | August 7, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Chloe Caldwell Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Chloe Caldwell Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Sheila Heti, Yiyun Li, Hala Alyan, and Others

By Diana Arterian | August 7, 2025

Barbara Kingsolver on Supporting Appalachian Women Recovering from Addiction

Barbara Kingsolver on Supporting Appalachian Women Recovering from Addiction

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 7, 2025

Carl Phillips and Aditi Machado Feel Like Radically Different Poets

Carl Phillips and Aditi Machado Feel Like Radically Different Poets

In Conversation with Lena Crown on Awakeners

By awakeners | August 7, 2025

Khadijah Queen on What It’s Like to Write Poetry on a Naval Destroyer

Khadijah Queen on What It’s Like to Write Poetry on a Naval Destroyer

“I’d steal a moment to write future me into existence, or to write my way through my feelings after another tedious day.”

By Khadijah Queen | August 6, 2025

Doubles, Glitches, Hallucinations, Dreams: Nine Books that Feature David Lynchian Deja Vu

Doubles, Glitches, Hallucinations, Dreams: Nine Books that Feature David Lynchian Deja Vu

Vanessa Roveto Recommends Marguerite Duras, Leslie Scalapino, Joyelle McSweeney, and More

By Vanessa Roveto | August 6, 2025

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Why Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland—a Disappointment When It Was Published—is the Novel We Need Right Now

By Devin Thomas O’Shea | August 5, 2025

God-Tier Books: A Personal Library of Holy Scripture

By Jon Raymond | August 5, 2025

A Cosmic Bond: Five Essential Books on Queer Black Friendship

By m. mick powell | August 5, 2025

How Tochi Eze Found Her Writing Voice in Igbo Folklore

How Tochi Eze Found Her Writing Voice in Igbo Folklore

“Myth is not just fabrication or metaphor, it is method and craft.”

By Tochi Eze | August 5, 2025

On the Joy of Building a Sci-Fi World with a Korean Inflection

On the Joy of Building a Sci-Fi World with a Korean Inflection

Elaine U. Cho: “If you want to belong to the world, you’ll have to pick up on its lingo.”

By Elaine U. Cho | August 5, 2025

How Writers Write Characters Who Are Writers Writing About Themselves; Or, But Is It Autofiction?

How Writers Write Characters Who Are Writers Writing About Themselves; Or, But Is It Autofiction?

Megan Cummins Explores the Porous Borders of Narrativizing Oneself on the Open Road

By Megan Cummins | August 5, 2025

Jamaica Kincaid! The invention of a Brontë! Bruce Springsteen! 27 new books out today!

Jamaica Kincaid! The invention of a Brontë! Bruce Springsteen! 27 new books out today!

By Gabrielle Bellot | August 5, 2025

What We Can Give Each Other: On Octavia Butler’s “Speech Sounds”

What We Can Give Each Other: On Octavia Butler’s “Speech Sounds”

Aaron Boehmer Considers the Hope in Human Connection

By Aaron Boehmer | August 4, 2025

Why a Nineteenth-Century Scandal of Class and Identity Still Speaks to Us

Why a Nineteenth-Century Scandal of Class and Identity Still Speaks to Us

Nell Stevens on the Tichborne Claimant Fraud and Creating the Possibility of a Different World Through Fiction

By Nell Stevens | August 4, 2025

What Jane Austen’s Possessions Reveal About Her Literary Ethos

What Jane Austen’s Possessions Reveal About Her Literary Ethos

Kathryn Sutherland Explores the Iconic Author’s Life and Work Through the Most Seemingly Mundane Objects

By Kathryn Sutherland | August 4, 2025

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