October’s Best Reviewed Fiction

October’s Best Reviewed Fiction

Featuring Thomas Pynchon, Gish Jen, Philip Pullman, and More

By Book Marks | October 31, 2025

October’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

October’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

Featuring Gertrude Stein, Susan Orlean, Peter Matthiessen, and More

By Book Marks | October 31, 2025

Catherine Newman on the Humor of the Unexpected

Catherine Newman on the Humor of the Unexpected

“Anything catching on fire and crashing through the chimney into the living room is funny—but it’s really funny if it’s raccoons.”

By Catherine Newman | October 31, 2025

Feeding Our Ghosts: How Food Invokes Memories of Ones Loved and Lost

Feeding Our Ghosts: How Food Invokes Memories of Ones Loved and Lost

Daria Lavelle on the Bond Between Taste and the Departed

By Daria Lavelle | October 31, 2025

Yes, You Are the Literary Asshole If You Use AI to Edit Your Fiction

Yes, You Are the Literary Asshole If You Use AI to Edit Your Fiction

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | October 30, 2025

The 11 Best Book Covers of October

The 11 Best Book Covers of October

Plus a Couple Extra

By Emily Temple | October 30, 2025

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

Porn, But Also Literature: On John Cleland’s Fanny Hill

By Chelsea G. Summers and Jessica Stoya | October 30, 2025

What’s With All the Sheep on Book Covers?

By Celia Mattison | October 30, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks | October 30, 2025

The Most Anticipated Audiobooks of November

The Most Anticipated Audiobooks of November

The Literature to Listen to This Month

By Audiofile Magazine | October 30, 2025

Max Delsohn on the Importance of Portraying Trans Men

Max Delsohn on the Importance of Portraying Trans Men

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | October 30, 2025

Rediscovering the Lost Arts of the English Woodlands

Rediscovering the Lost Arts of the English Woodlands

James Fox on the Thankless Job of the Chiltern Hills Woodsmen

By James Fox | October 29, 2025

Why I Give My Books Away For Free

Why I Give My Books Away For Free

Shane Hinton Won’t Let Money Stand in the Way of a Potential Reader

By Shane Hinton | October 29, 2025

What Henry VIII’s Despotic Rule Can Teach Us About Today’s Tyrants

What Henry VIII’s Despotic Rule Can Teach Us About Today’s Tyrants

Philippa Gregory on the Importance of Standing Up to Tyranny Before It's Too Late

By Philippa Gregory | October 29, 2025

Daily Affirmations for the Dog In Your Life

Daily Affirmations for the Dog In Your Life

Andrea Cáceres Shares a Few Lessons in Perspective Learned From Her Dog Tobi

By Andrea Cáceres | October 29, 2025

Life and Death in the Impoverished Neighborhood of Alabama Village

Life and Death in the Impoverished Neighborhood of Alabama Village

“A commemoration to the dead, a warning to the living.”

By J. Malcolm Garcia | October 29, 2025

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