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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

The Most Anticipated Audiobooks of February

The Most Anticipated Audiobooks of February

The Month to Come in Literary Listening, Via Audiofile

By Audiofile Magazine | January 31, 2025

What South Asia’s Literary Classics Reveal About Its Linguistic and Cultural Diversity

What South Asia’s Literary Classics Reveal About Its Linguistic and Cultural Diversity

Ranjit Hoskote on the Interplay Between Written, Oral and Corporal Expression in Indian Literature

By Ranjit Hoskote | January 31, 2025

Susan Barker on Terror and the Power of Ambiguity

Susan Barker on Terror and the Power of Ambiguity

“Ambiguous signs in horror are so unnerving because it’s the stuff we encounter in our everyday lives.”

By Susan Barker | January 31, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“I’ve seen sex written about with passion and dispassion, but seldom in the same book, and never in the same sentence.”

By Book Marks | January 30, 2025

As the World Burns, There’s Nothing Wrong With a Little Escapism

As the World Burns, There’s Nothing Wrong With a Little Escapism

Maris Kreizman on Finding the Art to Free Her From Her Phone

By Maris Kreizman | January 30, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

The Annotated Nightstand: What Pádraig Ó Tuama is Reading Now, and Next

By Diana Arterian | January 30, 2025

25 books out in paperback this February!

By Gabrielle Bellot | January 30, 2025

Lan Samantha Chang on the Risks and Rewards of Literary Personas

By Fiction Non Fiction | January 30, 2025

How an Obscure German Noblewoman Influenced the Way Anne Frank Wrote Her Diary

How an Obscure German Noblewoman Influenced the Way Anne Frank Wrote Her Diary

Biographer Ruth Franklin on the Value of a Careful Eye and Fresh Perspective

By Ruth Franklin | January 29, 2025

André Alexis on Martha Baillie's <em>There Is No Blue</em>

André Alexis on Martha Baillie's There Is No Blue

In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | January 29, 2025

How Literature Predicted and Portrayed the Atom Bomb

How Literature Predicted and Portrayed the Atom Bomb

Dorian Lynskey on Pierrepoint B. Noyes, H.G. Wells, and the “Superweapons” of Early Science-Fiction

By Dorian Lynskey | January 28, 2025

How Black and White America Reacted to Maya Angelou’s <em>I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings</em>

How Black and White America Reacted to Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Scott W. Stern on the Reception of an American Classic and the Birth of a Renaissance of Black Women Writers

By Scott W. Stern | January 28, 2025

Neko Case! Imani Perry! Rachel Carson’s Queer Life! 27 new books out today.

Neko Case! Imani Perry! Rachel Carson’s Queer Life! 27 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | January 28, 2025

Emily Greenhouse on the Whole Self

Emily Greenhouse on the Whole Self

In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics

By The Critic and Her Publics | January 28, 2025

“Anarchism Means That You Should Be Free.” On the Literature of Liberation

“Anarchism Means That You Should Be Free.” On the Literature of Liberation

Ed Simon Considers the Life Alexander Berkman, Anarchist, Would-Be Assassin, and 19th-Century Luigi Mangione

By Ed Simon | January 27, 2025

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