5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“There are two kinds of novels about American life in the digital age: panoramas and selfies.”

By Book Marks | April 25, 2024

How P.T. Barnum Brought Beluga Whales to New York City

How P.T. Barnum Brought Beluga Whales to New York City

Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy on Museum Ethics and Animal Welfare in 19th Century America

By Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy | April 25, 2024

What a Series of Killings in Rural Georgia Revealed About Early 20th-Century America

What a Series of Killings in Rural Georgia Revealed About Early 20th-Century America

Earl Swift on the Continuing Regime of Racial Terror in the Post-Civil War American South

By Earl Swift | April 25, 2024

What Makes a Wonder? On the Human Need to Map Out Monumental Greatness

What Makes a Wonder? On the Human Need to Map Out Monumental Greatness

Bettany Hughes Considers the Creation and Construction of the Ancient World

By Bettany Hughes | April 25, 2024

The Annotated Nightstand: What Danielle Dutton Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Danielle Dutton Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Gerald Murnane, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, Herman Melville, and Others

By Diana Arterian | April 25, 2024

Gareth Russell on Hampton Court

Gareth Russell on Hampton Court

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | April 25, 2024

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Mass Mothering
  • Autobiography of Cotton
  • Good People
  • Empire of Madness: Reimagining Western Mental Health Care for Everyone
  • The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet
  • Second Skin: Inside the Worlds of Fetish, Kink, and Deviant Desire

Tracie McMillan on the Myth of Colorblindness

By Fiction Non Fiction | April 25, 2024

Deborah Treisman on the Challenge of Identifying the American Short Story

By The Cosmic Library | April 24, 2024

How Prohibition Forever Changed Women’s Cultural Relationship with Alcohol

By Nicola Nice | April 24, 2024

How Music and Verse Can Spark Literary Passion in Reluctant Readers

How Music and Verse Can Spark Literary Passion in Reluctant Readers

Alicia D. Williams on the Many Written and Oral Forms a Story Can Take

By Alicia D. Williams | April 24, 2024

When Writing Your Novel (Maybe) Manifests Your Breakup

When Writing Your Novel (Maybe) Manifests Your Breakup

Hazel Hayes on Seeing Her Characters’ Relationship Problems Mirror Her Own

By Hazel Hayes | April 24, 2024

The Creators of a Bicycle-Powered Library Reflect on Its Humble Beginnings

The Creators of a Bicycle-Powered Library Reflect on Its Humble Beginnings

Laura Moulton and Ben Hodgson on Bringing Books to Underserved Communities

By Laura Moulton and Ben Hodgson | April 24, 2024

The Pilgrim’s (Lack of) Progress, Or, Sorry I Took So Long to Finish My Novel, Or, On the Value of Restarting

The Pilgrim’s (Lack of) Progress, Or, Sorry I Took So Long to Finish My Novel, Or, On the Value of Restarting

Justin Taylor on the Book He Started Writing in 2014

By Justin Taylor | April 23, 2024

Torn Dresses, Frank Sinatra, Ghosts in the Loo: Judi Dench on a Lifetime of Playing Shakespeare

Torn Dresses, Frank Sinatra, Ghosts in the Loo: Judi Dench on a Lifetime of Playing Shakespeare

Judi Dench and the Actor and Director Brendan O'Hea in Conversation from Their New Book "Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent"

By Literary Hub | April 23, 2024

On America’s Two-Party System... And the Damage It Has Done

On America’s Two-Party System... And the Damage It Has Done

Gabrielle Bellot Tries to Think Beyond the Red/Blue Binary That Makes Enemies of Neighbors

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 23, 2024

Sasha Vasilyuk on the Price of Secrecy in Russia and Ukraine

Sasha Vasilyuk on the Price of Secrecy in Russia and Ukraine

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Your Presence Is Mandatory”

By Jane Ciabattari | April 23, 2024

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