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 Karen Russell, Helen Garner, Torrey Peters, and More

By Book Marks | March 14, 2025

How the Vietnam War Exposed America’s Military and Political Vulnerabilities

How the Vietnam War Exposed America’s Military and Political Vulnerabilities

James A. Warren on the Origins and Lasting Impact of a Generation-Defining Cold War Conflict

By James A. Warren | March 14, 2025

Playing the End: Alice Austen on Writing Character Like an Actor

Playing the End: Alice Austen on Writing Character Like an Actor

“We all have layers; we are all actors playing our parts.”

By Alice Austen | March 14, 2025

The Best Villains in Literature Bracket: The Fearsome 4

The Best Villains in Literature Bracket: The Fearsome 4

The Semifinals

By Literary Hub | March 13, 2025

Truth, Power, Art: A Critical Manifesto on Creative Nonfiction

Truth, Power, Art: A Critical Manifesto on Creative Nonfiction

Lauren Markham and Chris Feliciano Arnold on the Urgency Writing Truth to Power

By Lauren Markham and Chris Feliciano Arnold | March 13, 2025

Why We Fear Real-Life Dystopia but Love Dystopian Fiction

Why We Fear Real-Life Dystopia but Love Dystopian Fiction

Laila Lalami: "Our world... may not be the best of all possible worlds, but it’s the one we have—and the one we make."

By Laila Lalami | March 13, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Things We Never Say
  • John of John
  • Ghost Stories: A Memoir
  • Look What You Made Me Do
  • Backtalker: An American Memoir
  • Glorious Country: How the Artist Frederic Church Brought the World to America and America to the World

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks | March 13, 2025

How Shirley Jackson Exposed the Darker, Uncanny Side of Everyday Life

By Ruth Franklin | March 13, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Mónica de la Torre Is Reading Now, and Next

By Diana Arterian | March 13, 2025

“Robert Creeley” <br>A Poem by Ron Padgett

“Robert Creeley”
A Poem by Ron Padgett

From the Collection “Pink Dust”

By Ron Padgett | March 13, 2025

Curtis Sittenfeld on Show Don’t Tell

Curtis Sittenfeld on Show Don’t Tell

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | March 13, 2025

Stenographers of Empire: Where is the Moral Courage in the American Media?

Stenographers of Empire: Where is the Moral Courage in the American Media?

For Steven W. Thrasher the Absence of Solidarity Among American Journalists Has Made Donald Trump’s Job That Much Easier

By Steven W. Thrasher | March 12, 2025

The Best Villains in Literature Bracket: The Hateful 8

The Best Villains in Literature Bracket: The Hateful 8

Round Four

By Literary Hub | March 12, 2025

Sloane Crosley: On the Fine Art of Saying “No”

Sloane Crosley: On the Fine Art of Saying “No”

The Benefits of Bluntly Turning Down Unwanted Requests

By Sloane Crosley | March 12, 2025

What the Rise of AI-Powered Weapons Reveals About the State of Modern Warfare

What the Rise of AI-Powered Weapons Reveals About the State of Modern Warfare

Christopher Summerfield on the Practical and Ethical Ramifications of Surrendering Human Military Knowledge to Machines

By Christopher Summerfield | March 12, 2025

Karen Russell on What Natural Disasters Can Reveal About the Human Condition

Karen Russell on What Natural Disasters Can Reveal About the Human Condition

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “The Antidote”

By Jane Ciabattari | March 12, 2025

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