August's Best Reviewed Fiction

August's Best Reviewed Fiction

Featuring New Titles from Ann Patchett, James McBride, Paul Murray, and More

By Book Marks | September 1, 2023

August's Best Reviewed Nonfiction

August's Best Reviewed Nonfiction

Featuring George Eliot, August Wilson, Harry Smith, and More

By Book Marks | September 1, 2023

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"Dickens may be dead, but Smith, thankfully, is alive."

By Book Marks | August 31, 2023

<em>Kansas Reflector</em> Editor-in-Chief Sherman Smith on Freedom of the Press

Kansas Reflector Editor-in-Chief Sherman Smith on Freedom of the Press

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 31, 2023

Hilary Leichter on Time and Re-Reading

Hilary Leichter on Time and Re-Reading

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review

By The Maris Review | August 31, 2023

On the

On the "Inverted Cosmos"—From Aristotle to the Middle Ages

William Egginton on Crystalline Spheres and Dante's Divine Comedy

By William Egginton | August 30, 2023

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Silver Book
  • The Land in Winter
  • Evensong
  • Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime
  • The History of Money: A Story of Humanity
  • The American Revolution: An Intimate History

Nancy Bilyeau Reads From The Orchid Hour

By Damian Barr's Literary Salon | August 30, 2023

How Obscenity Laws Nearly Stopped Nabokov's Lolita from Being Published

By Thomas Harding | August 29, 2023

What to Read When You’re Expecting: 7 Radical Perspectives on Motherhood

By Jessica Hendry Nelson | August 29, 2023

The Existential Impossibilities of Parenting, in Fiction and Life

The Existential Impossibilities of Parenting, in Fiction and Life

Rebecca Ackermann on New Books by Edan Lepucki and Yael Goldstein-Love

By Rebecca Ackermann | August 28, 2023

Patrick Whitmarsh on Fiction's Response to Existential Crises

Patrick Whitmarsh on Fiction's Response to Existential Crises

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | August 28, 2023

Was Marcel Proust A Comedian? On the Unexpected Humor of <em>In Search of Lost Time</em>

Was Marcel Proust A Comedian? On the Unexpected Humor of In Search of Lost Time

Michael Wood Considers an Overlooked Aspect of the French Novelist's Body of Work

By Michael Wood | August 25, 2023

Looking Back at the Groundbreaking Puerto Rican Spanglish Novel <em>Yo-Yo Boing!</em>

Looking Back at the Groundbreaking Puerto Rican Spanglish Novel Yo-Yo Boing!

Rolando Pérez Reflects on Giannina Braschi's Translingual Boricua Classic

By Rolando Pérez | August 25, 2023

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

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

Featuring Anna Funder, Anna May Wong, Jerome Charyn, and More

By Book Marks | August 25, 2023

Dragons Are People Too: Ursula Le Guin’s Acts of Recognition

Dragons Are People Too: Ursula Le Guin’s Acts of Recognition

John Plotz Revisits Earthsea

By John Plotz | August 24, 2023

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"For all of us who lack superpowers, storytelling may be the surest way to grasp the elastic dimensions of life"

By Book Marks | August 24, 2023

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