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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The book’s effect is hypnotically telescopic, a vision of people we come to know across decades.”

By Book Marks | February 20, 2025

Inky and Determined: In Praise of Writers Who Self-Publish

Inky and Determined: In Praise of Writers Who Self-Publish

Lewis Buzbee on the Benefits of Taking Book Production Into Your Own Hands

By Lewis Buzbee | February 20, 2025

How the Twin Desires of Connection and Autonomy Motivate Us to Success

How the Twin Desires of Connection and Autonomy Motivate Us to Success

William von Hippel on the Psychology Behind the Human Need for Independence and Acceptance

By William von Hippel | February 20, 2025

Finding Comfort in TV That No One Else Is Talking About

Finding Comfort in TV That No One Else Is Talking About

Anandi Mishra on the Joys of Escaping into the (Recent) Past

By Anandi Mishra | February 20, 2025

Nicholas Fandos on New York Politics, Eric Adams, and Trump

Nicholas Fandos on New York Politics, Eric Adams, and Trump

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | February 20, 2025

RaMell Ross on Adapting Colson Whitehead, Black Subjectivity, and the Epic Banal

RaMell Ross on Adapting Colson Whitehead, Black Subjectivity, and the Epic Banal

"The god of the camera is a colonizer but a cul-de-sac history of exploitation is held in black skin.”

By Brittany Allen | February 19, 2025

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How Walking Shaped Simone and Hélène de Beauvoir's Art and Thought

By Annabel Abbs | February 19, 2025

Who Were the Women Novelists Who Really Inspired Jane Austen?

By Rebecca Romney | February 19, 2025

How the Kremlin’s Truly Epic Adaptation of War and Peace Helped Me Write a Novel

By Elyse Durham | February 19, 2025

Novelists, Trust Me: You Can Really Learn a Lot About Storytelling From Video Games Like <em>Elden Ring</em>

Novelists, Trust Me: You Can Really Learn a Lot About Storytelling From Video Games Like Elden Ring

Nick Newman Considers the Act of Writing as a Form of (Game) Play

By Nick Newman | February 19, 2025

How the Pilgrims Redefined What It Means to Move Across the World

How the Pilgrims Redefined What It Means to Move Across the World

Yoni Appelbaum Explores the Puritan Origins of Modern Ideas About Migration

By Yoni Appelbaum | February 19, 2025

What My Father’s Emails Taught Me About the Craft of Writing

What My Father’s Emails Taught Me About the Craft of Writing

Emily J. Smith: “If my voice was anything, it was the shadow of his.”

By Emily J. Smith | February 19, 2025

Dreams of Liberation: Alex Zamalin on the Political Power of American Countercultures

Dreams of Liberation: Alex Zamalin on the Political Power of American Countercultures

The Author of “Counterculture” in Conversation with Aaron Robertson

By Aaron Robertson | February 19, 2025

Jane Austen’s Many Literary Afterlives: <br>A Reading List

Jane Austen’s Many Literary Afterlives:
A Reading List

Rebecca Romney Recommends Edith Wharton, Vanessa Riley, Karen Joy Fowler and More

By Rebecca Romney | February 18, 2025

Wife, Mother, Labor Organizer: On the Hidden Activist Life of Betty Friedan

Wife, Mother, Labor Organizer: On the Hidden Activist Life of Betty Friedan

Haley Mlotek Explores the Tension Between the Political and the Personal For the Author of “The Feminine Mystique”

By Haley Mlotek | February 18, 2025

How the Girlboss Lost: Sophie Lewis on the Rise and Fall of a Feminist Moment

How the Girlboss Lost: Sophie Lewis on the Rise and Fall of a Feminist Moment

Leaning Into the Death of Lean-In Feminism and Its Many Resurrections in Our Conflicted Zeitgeist

By Sophie Lewis | February 18, 2025

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