5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“It reads as if it is trying to wrap its arms around the abundance of experience.”

By Book Marks | February 6, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Sarah Chihaya Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Sarah Chihaya Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Isabella Hammad, Roland Barthes, Katie Kitamura, and More

By Diana Arterian | February 6, 2025

Thomas Dai on Mapping, Naming, Borders, and Immigration

Thomas Dai on Mapping, Naming, Borders, and Immigration

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | February 6, 2025

Finding Africa in Harlem: Displacement and Belonging in Claude McKay’s <em>Home to Harlem</em>

Finding Africa in Harlem: Displacement and Belonging in Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem

Belinda Edmondson on the Peripatetic Perspective of a Landmark Novel

By Belinda Edmondson | February 5, 2025

Sweet (But Not Too Sweet): 6 Essential Literary Love Stories

Sweet (But Not Too Sweet): 6 Essential Literary Love Stories

Jessica Soffer Recommends Ocean Vuong, Emma Straub, Andre Aciman, and More

By Jessica Soffer | February 5, 2025

Inside the Climate Techno-Dystopia of Michel Nieva’s <em>Dengue Boy</em>

Inside the Climate Techno-Dystopia of Michel Nieva’s Dengue Boy

Rahul Bery on Translating a Stylistically Innovative Work of South American Science Fiction

By Rahul Bery | February 5, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • House of Day, House of Night
  • The Award
  • Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
  • Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
  • Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
  • The Six Loves of James I

The Best of the Bard: Nine Literary Works That Radically Reimagine Shakespeare

By Grace Tiffany | February 4, 2025

Actually, Master and Commander is a Domestic Fantasy About a Codependent Life Partnership!

By Olivia Wolfgang-Smith | February 4, 2025

Love Books? You Still Might Suffer From Bibliophobia

By Sarah Chihaya | February 4, 2025

Josephine Baker! Lidia Yuknavitch! Geraldine Brooks! Ali Smith! 26 new books out today.

Josephine Baker! Lidia Yuknavitch! Geraldine Brooks! Ali Smith! 26 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | February 4, 2025

Skeld Season, Spider Brides, and Black Orbs: February’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Skeld Season, Spider Brides, and Black Orbs: February’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Hibernate with New SFF from Edward Ashton, Karen Thompson Walker, Gareth L. Powell, and More

By Natalie Zutter | February 3, 2025

Orphans, Institutions, and Adventures Out West: Five Books Featuring Unconventional Families

Orphans, Institutions, and Adventures Out West: Five Books Featuring Unconventional Families

Tom Lamont Reflects on Novels by Kazuo Ishiguro, Elizabeth Bowen, Hilary Mantel, and More

By Tom Lamont | February 3, 2025

Small Joys for Winter: 10 Great New Children’s Books to Read in February

Small Joys for Winter: 10 Great New Children’s Books to Read in February

Caroline Carlson Recommends the Latest Reads for Your Kids’ TBR Pile

By Caroline Carlson | February 3, 2025

Listen to the Firespitters: Seven Poetry Books to Read This February

Listen to the Firespitters: Seven Poetry Books to Read This February

Christopher Spaide Recommends Ali Cobby Eckermann, Steven Duong, Oluwaseun Olayiwola and More

By Christopher Spaide | February 3, 2025

January’s Best Reviewed Fiction

January’s Best Reviewed Fiction

Featuring Han Kang, Adam Haslett, Adam Ross, and More

By Book Marks | January 31, 2025

January’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

January’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

Featuring Edmund White’s Sex Memoir, the Rise of Spotify, and the End of the World

By Book Marks | January 31, 2025

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