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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
“The author is a professional contrarian, which pretty much means she can bounce off others to naysay whenever so moved.”
By
Book Marks
| August 14, 2025
Exile, Imprisonment, Aloneness: Emma Sloley on the Dark Allure of Writing About Islands
The Author of “The Island of Last Things” Visits Alcatraz and Offers an Antidote to Doomerism
By
Emma Sloley
| August 14, 2025
The Night the Warring Poet Clans of NYC Came Together in Peace
Nathan Kernan on James Schuyler’s First Public Poetry Reading
By
Nathan Kernan
| August 14, 2025
Will Bardenwerper on Baseball’s Betrayal of Its Minor League Roots
In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction
By
Fiction Non Fiction
| August 14, 2025
The View From Gaza—As Seen Through WB Yeats’s Widening Gyre
From Inside the Besieged Strip, Alaa Alqaisi on Life as a “Sustained Dismantling of the Soul”
By
Alaa Alqaisi
| August 13, 2025
Anthony Vahni Capildeo on Kimberly Campanello's
An Interesting Detail
In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
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Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
| August 13, 2025
Best Reviewed
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On “Mocha Dick,” the White Whale of the Pacific that Influenced Herman Melville
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Tim Queeney
| August 12, 2025
Is It Time to Move On From Dr. Seuss?
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Jess deCourcy Hinds
| August 12, 2025
Constantine Cavafy: The Making of a Poet
By
Gregory Jusdanis and Peter Jeffreys
| August 12, 2025
Tobias Wolff on Adrienne Salinger’s Iconic
Teenagers in Their Bedrooms
Thirty Years Later
“The humanity of these young faces implies a depth of feeling and experience that their histories confirm.”
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Literary Hub
| August 12, 2025
Jessica Francis Kane on Fictionalizing Penelope Fitzgerald’s Mexican Sojurn
Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Fonseca”
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Jane Ciabattari
| August 12, 2025
Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers
Featuring Peter Orner, Morgan Richter, Kate Riley and More
By
Teddy Wayne
| August 12, 2025
Sex ed! Vintage sapphic tales! Constantine Cavafy! 26 new books out today.
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Gabrielle Bellot
| August 12, 2025
How Charlotte Brontë’s Shyness Helped Make Her a Storyteller
Graham Watson Explores the Influence of Friendship and Community on the Author of "Jane Eyre"
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Graham Watson
| August 11, 2025
The Murky Story of Our First Storytellers: On the Mysterious Evolution of Human Language
Madeleine Beekman on Early Humans, Linguistic Acquisition, and the Glaring Gaps in Our Theories
By
Madeleine Beekman
| August 11, 2025
On the Peace and Pleasure of Reading Books About Babies as a New Mother
Ellyn Gaydos on William Carlos Williams, Annie Ernaux, and More
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Ellyn Gaydos
| August 11, 2025
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