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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“In this artful and sad novel, forbearance is courage.”

By Book Marks | May 8, 2025

On the Latest Threat to Literary Culture’s Fragile Ecosystem: Donald Trump

On the Latest Threat to Literary Culture’s Fragile Ecosystem: Donald Trump

Maris Kreizman Wonders What Can Be Done in the Face of Trump’s Devastating NEA Cuts?

By Maris Kreizman | May 8, 2025

Remembering the Unacknowledged Sacrifices of the Red Army’s Female Snipers

Remembering the Unacknowledged Sacrifices of the Red Army’s Female Snipers

Shelly Sanders on the Brave Women Silenced By the Country They Fought to Protect

By Shelly Sanders | May 8, 2025

From the French Resistance to the Horrors of Hiroshima: Eight Globe-Spanning Books on World War II

From the French Resistance to the Horrors of Hiroshima: Eight Globe-Spanning Books on World War II

Natasha Lester Recommends Ariel Lawhon, Emma Pei Yin, Anne Sebba, and More

By Natasha Lester | May 8, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Jennifer Hope Choi Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Jennifer Hope Choi Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Ross Gay, Isabella Hammad, Chet’la Sebree, and Others

By Diana Arterian | May 8, 2025

Literary Alchemy: On Fusing Research and Film Techniques to Write a Novel

Literary Alchemy: On Fusing Research and Film Techniques to Write a Novel

How Mo Ogrodnik Depicts Violence Against Women from Multiple Perspectives

By Mo Ogrodnik | May 8, 2025

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Hamilton Nolan on How To Write Op-Eds

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 8, 2025

The Rise of the Submission Industrial Complex

By Benjamin Davis | May 7, 2025

Poet of the Queer Brotherhood: How William Blake Influenced Oscar Wilde’s Circle

By Philip Hoare | May 7, 2025

It’s the Most Important Muscle in Your Body and You Don’t Even Know What It’s Called

It’s the Most Important Muscle in Your Body and You Don’t Even Know What It’s Called

Henry Abbott on the Essential Anatomical Role Played By the Enigmatic Psoas

By Henry Abbott | May 7, 2025

Ornament, Etiquette, Identity, Food: A Personal History of the Orange

Ornament, Etiquette, Identity, Food: A Personal History of the Orange

Katie Goh Ponders Citrus in Art and Life

By Katie Goh | May 7, 2025

Save or Shred? On the Allure and Conundrum of Unpublished Novels

Save or Shred? On the Allure and Conundrum of Unpublished Novels

Randee Dawn Explores Approaches to Trunk Fiction

By Randee Dawn | May 7, 2025

An Immodest Proposal: How Britain’s Relentless Imperialism Created the Irish Potato Famine

An Immodest Proposal: How Britain’s Relentless Imperialism Created the Irish Potato Famine

Padraic X. Scanlan on Jonathan Swift, Colonization, and Dispossession

By Padraic X. Scanlan | May 7, 2025

Asking Toni’s Questions: Decentering Whiteness in Literary Spaces

Asking Toni’s Questions: Decentering Whiteness in Literary Spaces

“It is the discomfort of asking and of making space for the answers...that will allow us to stay in the room together.”

By Rosa Castellano | May 7, 2025

How Reality Television Warps Our Understanding of Political and Economic Realities

How Reality Television Warps Our Understanding of Political and Economic Realities

Eunji Kim on the Role of Entertainment and Infotainment in American Life

By Eunji Kim | May 7, 2025

<em>The Cosmic Library</em> on Dreams and Math in Dostoevsky

The Cosmic Library on Dreams and Math in Dostoevsky

Featuring Robin Feuer Miller, Paulina Rowińska, and more

By The Cosmic Library | May 7, 2025

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