A Month of Poetic Acrobatics: 7 New Poetry Books to Read in September

A Month of Poetic Acrobatics: 7 New Poetry Books to Read in September

Featuring Quan Barry, Ariana Benson, Saskia Hamilton, and More

By Rebecca Morgan Frank | September 1, 2023

How <em>The Odyssey</em> Helped My Father and Me to Grow

How The Odyssey Helped My Father and Me to Grow

Daniel Mendelsohn on His Father and Making Lessons That Live On

By Daniel Mendelsohn | September 1, 2023

A Reading List of Realistic Portraits of Mothers and Daughters in Literature

A Reading List of Realistic Portraits of Mothers and Daughters in Literature

Jill Talbot on the Transformative Experience of Reading Rebecca Stead, Cheryl Strayed, Durga Chew-Bose, and More

By Jill Talbot | September 1, 2023

August's Best Reviewed Fiction

August's Best Reviewed Fiction

Featuring New Titles from Ann Patchett, James McBride, Paul Murray, and More

By Book Marks | September 1, 2023

August's Best Reviewed Nonfiction

August's Best Reviewed Nonfiction

Featuring George Eliot, August Wilson, Harry Smith, and More

By Book Marks | September 1, 2023

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"Dickens may be dead, but Smith, thankfully, is alive."

By Book Marks | August 31, 2023

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Departure(s)
  • The Flower Bearers
  • Eating Ashes
  • Every One Still Here: Stories
  • Once There Was a Town: The Memory Books of a Lost Jewish World
  • The Typewriter and the Guillotine: An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve of WWII

Kansas Reflector Editor-in-Chief Sherman Smith on Freedom of the Press

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 31, 2023

Hilary Leichter on Time and Re-Reading

By The Maris Review | August 31, 2023

On the "Inverted Cosmos"—From Aristotle to the Middle Ages

By William Egginton | August 30, 2023

Nancy Bilyeau Reads From <em>The Orchid Hour</em>

Nancy Bilyeau Reads From The Orchid Hour

From Damian Barr’s Literary Salon Podcast

By Damian Barr's Literary Salon | August 30, 2023

How Obscenity Laws Nearly Stopped Nabokov's <em>Lolita</em> from Being Published

How Obscenity Laws Nearly Stopped Nabokov's Lolita from Being Published

Thomas Harding on the Legendary Editor George Weidenfeld, Literary Smuggling, and Morality in Fiction

By Thomas Harding | August 29, 2023

What to Read When You’re Expecting: 7 Radical Perspectives on Motherhood

What to Read When You’re Expecting: 7 Radical Perspectives on Motherhood

Jessica Hendry Nelson Recommends Camille Dungy, Rachel Cusk, and More

By Jessica Hendry Nelson | August 29, 2023

The Existential Impossibilities of Parenting, in Fiction and Life

The Existential Impossibilities of Parenting, in Fiction and Life

Rebecca Ackermann on New Books by Edan Lepucki and Yael Goldstein-Love

By Rebecca Ackermann | August 28, 2023

Patrick Whitmarsh on Fiction's Response to Existential Crises

Patrick Whitmarsh on Fiction's Response to Existential Crises

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | August 28, 2023

Was Marcel Proust A Comedian? On the Unexpected Humor of <em>In Search of Lost Time</em>

Was Marcel Proust A Comedian? On the Unexpected Humor of In Search of Lost Time

Michael Wood Considers an Overlooked Aspect of the French Novelist's Body of Work

By Michael Wood | August 25, 2023

Looking Back at the Groundbreaking Puerto Rican Spanglish Novel <em>Yo-Yo Boing!</em>

Looking Back at the Groundbreaking Puerto Rican Spanglish Novel Yo-Yo Boing!

Rolando Pérez Reflects on Giannina Braschi's Translingual Boricua Classic

By Rolando Pérez | August 25, 2023

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