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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Natalie Walker on Method Acting, Ryan Ruby on Translingual Writing, Lily Meyer on the Bolaño Mythos, and More

By Book Marks | March 10, 2022

Choosing Our Literary Kin: Remembering Valerie Boyd

Choosing Our Literary Kin: Remembering Valerie Boyd

Sejal Shah on the Life and Times of a Beloved Writer and Editor 

By Sejal Shah | March 10, 2022

Transformation and Precision: On Writing Dreams

Transformation and Precision: On Writing Dreams

Corinne Hoex Considers the Power of the Unconscious

By Corinne Hoex | March 10, 2022

What Does it Look Like to Decenter Whiteness in Fiction?

What Does it Look Like to Decenter Whiteness in Fiction?

Kasim Ali on Writing for One’s Characters

By Kasim Ali | March 10, 2022

WATCH: Rebecca Mead and Jia Tolentino on Identity, Nationality, and Inheritance

WATCH: Rebecca Mead and Jia Tolentino on Identity, Nationality, and Inheritance

Hosted by Greenlight Bookstore

By The Virtual Book Channel | March 10, 2022

Why We Should Read About the Soviet Past In Order to Understand Ukraine Now

Why We Should Read About the Soviet Past In Order to Understand Ukraine Now

Sofi Oksanen Recommends Books With an Eastern European Perspective

By Sofi Oksanen | March 9, 2022

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  • Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution

What Makes a Great Opening Line?

By Allegra Hyde | March 9, 2022

The Power—and Necessity—of Reading Dangerously

By Azar Nafisi | March 9, 2022

How Trees Helped Ben Okri To Write His New Children’s Book

By Ben Okri | March 9, 2022

How Campus Novels Reveal the Power—and Danger—of Pure Ideas

How Campus Novels Reveal the Power—and Danger—of Pure Ideas

Tara Isabella Burton on the Combination of Isolation, Vulnerability, and Hunger for Knowledge

By Tara Isabella Burton | March 9, 2022

Sexism Wants Women to Think We’re Stupid—and We Believe It

Sexism Wants Women to Think We’re Stupid—and We Believe It

Mona Chollet on Being Condemned to “Orbit Around the Planet of True Knowledge”

By Mona Chollet | March 9, 2022

How Rumi Became a Poet

How Rumi Became a Poet

Haleh Liza Gafori on Rumi's Formative Friendship with Shams

By Haleh Liza Gafori | March 9, 2022

Kevin Barry on <em>Flowers in the Attic</em>, <em>2666</em>, and <em>The Talented Mr. Ripley</em>

Kevin Barry on Flowers in the Attic, 2666, and The Talented Mr. Ripley

Rapid-fire book recs from the author of That Old Country Music

By Book Marks | March 9, 2022

It turns out Drake has very good taste in books.

It turns out Drake has very good taste in books.

By Katie Yee | March 8, 2022

How Ukrainian Writers Are Contributing to the War Effort

How Ukrainian Writers Are Contributing to the War Effort

Kate Tsurkan Reports from Chernivtsi

By Kate Tsurkan | March 8, 2022

What Comes After “Kmart Realism”? Writing Place in the Era of American Uniformity

What Comes After “Kmart Realism”? Writing Place in the Era of American Uniformity

Lee Cole on the Homogenization of Rural Life in America

By Lee Cole | March 8, 2022

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