5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“It’s a total, self-encapsulating project—about a total, self-encapsulating doom.”

By Book Marks | July 3, 2025

Clarence A. Haynes on Finding the Soundscape of Your Novel

Clarence A. Haynes on Finding the Soundscape of Your Novel

“I needed sounds that were lush, that could carry these characters’ emotional weight.”

By Clarence A. Haynes | July 3, 2025

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 Kathy Wang, the CIA, Nell Stevens, and More

By Book Marks | July 3, 2025

Have You Considered an Anarchist Approach to Plot?

Have You Considered an Anarchist Approach to Plot?

Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante on Throwing Bombs, Emotional Movement, and Other Plot Devices

By Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante | July 3, 2025

Dina Nayeri on Iranian Life Under Attack

Dina Nayeri on Iranian Life Under Attack

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | July 3, 2025

Is Summer Actually the Season for Reading Big, Thick Books?

Is Summer Actually the Season for Reading Big, Thick Books?

In Which James Folta Wonders If Bigger Really is Better

By James Folta | July 2, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Country People
  • You Won't Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters
  • Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991
  • The Great Wherever
  • A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies
  • The Simp: A Novel Without a Hero

How Houston’s Third Ward Became a Hub of Black Art, Culture, and Opportunity

By Lauren O'Neill Butler | July 2, 2025

Jessica Berger Gross on the Special Euphoria of Debuting as a Novelist in Her 50s

By Jessica Berger Gross | July 2, 2025

Other, Better Worlds: Pip Adam on the Possibilities of Politically Engaged Speculative Fiction

By Danielle Dutton | July 2, 2025

How Immigrants and Other ESL Students Make American English Their Own

How Immigrants and Other ESL Students Make American English Their Own

Megan C. Reynolds on the Linguistic Quirks That Contribute to the Diversity of the English Language

By Megan C. Reynolds | July 2, 2025

On the Dehumanizing Impact of Deportation and Our Obligations to Each Other

On the Dehumanizing Impact of Deportation and Our Obligations to Each Other

Laurie Sheck Considers the Plight of Refugee Children

By Laurie Sheck | July 2, 2025

Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini on Bola Agbaje's <em>Gone Too Far!</em>

Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini on Bola Agbaje's Gone Too Far!

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

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | July 2, 2025

“How Much We Died...” <br>A Poem by Nasser Rabah

“How Much We Died...”
A Poem by Nasser Rabah

“nothing left in the day’s haggard pockets / but dizzying hunger and rows of rubble”

By Nasser Rabah | July 1, 2025

Libby Buck on Writing Like an Art Historian

Libby Buck on Writing Like an Art Historian

“I follow the object, asking it to speak to me.”

By Libby Buck | July 1, 2025

A Series of Unfortunate Salaries: <br>Maris Kreizman on Fighting the Publishing Industry’s Elitism

A Series of Unfortunate Salaries:
Maris Kreizman on Fighting the Publishing Industry’s Elitism

The Author of “I Want to Burn This Place Down” Unionizes Against the Big Five’s Unlivable Wages

By Maris Kreizman | July 1, 2025

Paris Made My Cheeks Hurt: On Language and Muscle Memory

Paris Made My Cheeks Hurt: On Language and Muscle Memory

Benedict Nguyễn Explores Writing and Revising Across Linguistic Lines

By Benedict Nguyễn | July 1, 2025

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