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 Megha Majumdar, Susan Orlean, Brandon Taylor, and More

By Book Marks | October 17, 2025

Looking Back on Our Cringe-Worthy Selves: A Reading List for Teenage Weirdos

Looking Back on Our Cringe-Worthy Selves: A Reading List for Teenage Weirdos

Cloud Delfina Cardona Recommends Michele Serros, jo reyes-boitel, Jacinto Jesús Cardona and More

By Cloud Delfina Cardona | October 17, 2025

Am I the Literary Asshole for Letting AI Fix My Writing?

Am I the Literary Asshole for Letting AI Fix My Writing?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | October 16, 2025

Chris Kraus on How Crime Writing Can Be an Entry To a Shattered Community

Chris Kraus on How Crime Writing Can Be an Entry To a Shattered Community

The Author of “The Four Spent the Day Together” on Researching the Nagamo Trail Murder

By Chris Kraus | October 16, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“What makes his writing distinctive is not its sameness but rather its range and variety.”

By Book Marks | October 16, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Susan Orlean Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Susan Orlean Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Gabrielle Zevin, Kate Atkinson, Matthew Desmond, and More

By Diana Arterian | October 16, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • House of Day, House of Night
  • The Award
  • Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
  • Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
  • Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
  • The Six Loves of James I

Biography of a Biographer: Searching For My Father on Mark Twain’s Farm

By Hester Kaplan | October 16, 2025

Anatomy of a Lynching: Racist Retribution in Owensboro, Kentucky

By Sonya Lea | October 16, 2025

What the Picture Knows: Books That Seamlessly Blend Text and Image

By Caleb Klaces | October 16, 2025

Jelani Cobb on Race, Politics, and the ‘Trayvon Martin Generation’

Jelani Cobb on Race, Politics, and the ‘Trayvon Martin Generation’

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | October 16, 2025

A Poem by Ursula K. Le Guin About Cats

A Poem by Ursula K. Le Guin About Cats

Read “Entanglements,” a poem by the Late Author

By Ursula K. Le Guin | October 15, 2025

How Silicon Valley Became a Center of Reactionary, Anti-Democratic Politics

How Silicon Valley Became a Center of Reactionary, Anti-Democratic Politics

Jacob Silverman on the Rise of Tech Authoritarianism in San Francisco

By Jacob Silverman | October 15, 2025

Between Taiwanese and Mandarin: Translation as a Test of Allegiance

Between Taiwanese and Mandarin: Translation as a Test of Allegiance

Kevin Wang Explores How Translating Terao Tetsuya’s “Spent Bullets” Helped Him Understand the Legacy of Taiwan

By Kevin Wang | October 15, 2025

Anna North Thinks About the Roman Empire All the Time

Anna North Thinks About the Roman Empire All the Time

The Author Explores How Learning Latin Helps Her Untangle History With the Present

By Anna North | October 15, 2025

Eli Rallo Is Totally Fine—Until She’s Not

Eli Rallo Is Totally Fine—Until She’s Not

The Author and Content Creator on Avoiding the OB-GYN, OCD Obsessions, and Pretending to Be Okay

By Eli Rallo | October 15, 2025

Why is America’s First Great War of Empire Barely Remembered at Home?

Why is America’s First Great War of Empire Barely Remembered at Home?

Joe Jackson on the Legacy of the United States' Involvement in the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Revolution

By Joe Jackson | October 15, 2025

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