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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Ernesto Londoño on the Personal Cost of Minnesota’s Political Killings

Renee Gladman Makes Prose Spiral

Gatsby’s Lost Plaintiffs: On the Absurd Fiction of Legal Equality in America

5 Great Literary Mysteries Set in Coastal Massachusetts

Eurydice at 18: On the Off-Broadway Revival of Sarah Ruhl’s Beloved Play

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Sibling Duos, Trios, Quartets, and More: Nine Stories and Folktales Featuring Sisters

Hal Ebbott on Writing a Novel of Male Friendship

Belle Starr! Agatha Christie! A reality-TV Lord of the Flies! 22 new books out today.

Black Finnegan: On William Melvin Kelley, James Joyce, and the Avant-Garde of the Subaltern

The Dark Magic of Words: Why Fascism and Illiberalism Are So Seductive to Writers

“Fidelity to Both Pleasure and Humiliation.” On M.F.K. Fisher’s Feminist Realism

Diana Arterian on Agrippina the Younger, Writing Historical Women, and Poetry as Liberty

Pep Talks That I Give to Authors That I Will Now Give to Myself

“Politics is Everywhere.” A Close and Highly Critical Reading of English PEN’s Charter

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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