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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“You feel something vital and profound prowling around in the darkness beneath.”

By Book Marks | August 22, 2024

The Annotated Nightstand: What Danez Smith is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Danez Smith is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Andre Perry, Nicole Sealey, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, and Others

By Diana Arterian | August 22, 2024

If You Skip a Friend’s Book Launch Are You the Literary Asshole?

If You Skip a Friend’s Book Launch Are You the Literary Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | August 22, 2024

What Greenland’s Melting Ice Tells Us About the History and Future of Global Warming

What Greenland’s Melting Ice Tells Us About the History and Future of Global Warming

Paul Bierman on the Need to Understand Earth's Ancient Past to Combat Today’s Environmental Threats

By Paul Bierman | August 22, 2024

Iris Jamahl Dunkle and Kelly McMasters on Biographical Ethics

Iris Jamahl Dunkle and Kelly McMasters on Biographical Ethics

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 22, 2024

Glynne Walley on the Hakkenden

Glynne Walley on the Hakkenden

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | August 22, 2024

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • This Is Where the Serpent Lives
  • Lost Lambs
  • Winter: The Story of a Season
  • The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
  • The Hitch
  • Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China

“The Prodigal Converses with the Land,” a Poem by Kwame Dawes

By Kwame Dawes | August 21, 2024

Bigoted Bookselling: When the Nazis Opened a Propaganda Bookstore in Los Angeles

By Evan Friss | August 21, 2024

Rosie Schaap on Losing Her Husband: “He Wanted to Go on Reading Because He Wanted to Go on Living.”

By Rosie Schaap | August 21, 2024

Writing Happiness: Why It’s Worth It to Look on the Bright Side of Stories

Writing Happiness: Why It’s Worth It to Look on the Bright Side of Stories

Maribeth Fischer on the Joys of Creating Joyful Fiction

By Maribeth Fischer | August 21, 2024

m. nourbeSe philip on Kamau Brathwaite's <em>Born to Slow Horses</em>

m. nourbeSe philip on Kamau Brathwaite's Born to Slow Horses

In Conversation for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | August 21, 2024

Fragile Yet Eternal: How Audre Lorde Continues to Inspire

Fragile Yet Eternal: How Audre Lorde Continues to Inspire

Alexis Pauline Gumbs on the Life and Legacy of the Iconic Black Feminist Poet and Activist

By Alexis Pauline Gumbs | August 20, 2024

Aliens, or Angels? On the Similarities Between UFO Encounters and Religious Experiences

Aliens, or Angels? On the Similarities Between UFO Encounters and Religious Experiences

Luis Elizondo Digs into Biblical Stories, Government Secrecy, and the Difficulties of Studying UAP

By Luis Elizondo | August 20, 2024

What the Deliberate Targeting of Libraries Reveals About the Nature of War

What the Deliberate Targeting of Libraries Reveals About the Nature of War

Priscilla Morris on the Burning Books and Besieged City That Inspired Her Novel

By Priscilla Morris | August 20, 2024

Putting the “Fun

Putting the “Fun" in “Funeral.” Or, Why Death Shouldn’t Always Be So Sad

Spencer Henry and Madison Reyes Explore Festive Mourning Practices Across Eras and Cultures

By Spencer Henry and Madison Reyes | August 20, 2024

“Last Black American Poem,” a Poem by Danez Smith

“Last Black American Poem,” a Poem by Danez Smith

From the Collection “Bluff”

By Danez Smith | August 20, 2024

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