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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“It offers something darker, colder, more fraught, and ultimately, singular and transcendent.”

By Book Marks | June 27, 2024

The Annotated Nightstand: What Tara M. Stringfellow Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Tara M. Stringfellow Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Warsan Shire, Ann Patchett, Melissa Mogollon, and Others

By Diana Arterian | June 27, 2024

Maxim Loskutoff on the Unabomber and the Myth of the American West

Maxim Loskutoff on the Unabomber and the Myth of the American West

In Conversation with V.V. Ganeshananthan and Matt Gallagher on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | June 27, 2024

How a Small Press Poetry Contest Launched Samuel Beckett’s Career

How a Small Press Poetry Contest Launched Samuel Beckett’s Career

Adam Smyth on Nancy Cunard, the Woman Who First Discovered the Future Nobel Laureate

By Adam Smyth | June 26, 2024

Generation Franchise: <br>Why Writers Are Forced to Become Brands (and Why That’s Bad)

Generation Franchise:
Why Writers Are Forced to Become Brands (and Why That’s Bad)

Jess Row on the Ubiquity of the Digital Persona, From Child Stars to Disney Adults

By Jess Row | June 26, 2024

Helen Fielding on <em>Bridget Jones</em> and the Subtle Art of Diary Keeping

Helen Fielding on Bridget Jones and the Subtle Art of Diary Keeping

Considering the Place of the Confessional Narrative in the Literary Landscape on the Book's 25th Anniversary

By Helen Fielding | June 26, 2024

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Intertwined in Madness: On Turning Yourself into a Character in a Novel

By Alana Saab | June 26, 2024

Christopher Chen on Jorge Luis Borges’s “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | June 26, 2024

In Search of the Rarest Book in American Literature: Edgar Allan Poe’s Tamerlane

By Bradford Morrow | June 25, 2024

How Reading Grief Memoirs Helped Cody Delistraty Understand His Loss in New Ways

How Reading Grief Memoirs Helped Cody Delistraty Understand His Loss in New Ways

The Author of “The Grief Cure” on the Unexpected Invisibility of the Grieving

By Cody Delistraty | June 25, 2024

Playing With Time: On the Art of Imagining in Alan Lightman’s <em>Einstein’s Dreams</em>

Playing With Time: On the Art of Imagining in Alan Lightman’s Einstein’s Dreams

Alizah Holstein Considers the Intersection of Academic Knowledge and Creative Passion

By Alizah Holstein | June 25, 2024

Carina del Valle Schorske on Putting Rhythms into Prose

Carina del Valle Schorske on Putting Rhythms into Prose

In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics

By The Critic and Her Publics | June 25, 2024

75 Years of <em>1984</em>: Why George Orwell’s Classic Remains More Relevant Than Ever

75 Years of 1984: Why George Orwell’s Classic Remains More Relevant Than Ever

Elif Shafak on the Relentless Real-World Spread of Orwellian Dystopia

By Elif Shafak | June 24, 2024

The Literary Power of Hobbits: How JRR Tolkien Shaped Modern Fantasy

The Literary Power of Hobbits: How JRR Tolkien Shaped Modern Fantasy

Verlyn Flieger on the Late Addition of Tolkien's Most Iconic Characters

By Verlyn Flieger | June 24, 2024

Brief Encounters: On Claire Messud’s Melodramas

Brief Encounters: On Claire Messud’s Melodramas

Rafaela Bassili Considers “This Strange Eventful History” and the Author's Novels of Family Life

By Rafaela Bassili | June 24, 2024

Reading Jill Ciment’s <em>Consent</em> As a Former Teenage Bride

Reading Jill Ciment’s Consent As a Former Teenage Bride

Rafia Zakaria Considers Context, Choices and Consequences Across Eras and Cultures

By Rafia Zakaria | June 24, 2024

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