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 Geraldine Brooks, Ali Smith, Hanif Kureishi, and More

By Book Marks | February 7, 2025

Lauren Markham on the Use and Limitations of Language to Describe Disaster

Lauren Markham on the Use and Limitations of Language to Describe Disaster

Sarah Viren Talks to the Author of “Immemorial”

By Sarah Viren | February 7, 2025

Sophia Terazawa on Mistranslation and Writing in a Traitor Tongue

Sophia Terazawa on Mistranslation and Writing in a Traitor Tongue

“I struggle to inherit my mother’s music, picking up what I can and stumbling like a fussy child forward.”

By Sophia Terazawa | February 7, 2025

“We’ve Been Hiding Our Buttocks For Too Long.” Josephine Baker Arrives in Paris, 1925

“We’ve Been Hiding Our Buttocks For Too Long.” Josephine Baker Arrives in Paris, 1925

The Iconic French-American Performer Recounts Her First Days in the City of Lights

By Josephine Baker | February 7, 2025

“This Will Be Fun.” On the Life and Times of a Comics Master, Jules Feiffer

“This Will Be Fun.” On the Life and Times of a Comics Master, Jules Feiffer

Paul Morton Considers the Artist Who Took “Aim at the Radical Middle”

By Paul Morton | February 7, 2025

What Interacting With Chatbots Can Reveal About Ourselves

What Interacting With Chatbots Can Reveal About Ourselves

Webb Keane on the Anthropology Behind Our Relationship With Artificial Intelligence

By Webb Keane | February 7, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Awake Awake
  • Etna
  • Triage
  • The Amateur
  • The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn
  • The Story of Your Life: How Social Media Shapes the Way We Experience Everything
  • The Cruelest Game: Chasing Greatness in Professional Tennis
  • The Ego Trip: Psychedelic Toads, a Trail of Deaths, and the Guru Who Peddled Transcendence
  • The Blue Flame

For Andreas Malm, the Destruction of Gaza Runs Parallel to the Destruction of the Planet

By Andreas Malm | February 6, 2025

Carving Our Canoes: On the Value of Building a Communal Life in an Atomized World

By Tyson Yunkaporta | February 6, 2025

Does Any of This Matter? Am I the Literary Asshole?

By Kristen Arnett | February 6, 2025

Pádraig Ó Tuama on Patricia Smith, Poems as Acts of Noticing, and the Power of Good Teachers

Pádraig Ó Tuama on Patricia Smith, Poems as Acts of Noticing, and the Power of Good Teachers

From the Introduction to “44 Poems on Being with Each Other”

By Pádraig Ó' Tuama | February 6, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“It reads as if it is trying to wrap its arms around the abundance of experience.”

By Book Marks | February 6, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Sarah Chihaya Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Sarah Chihaya Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Isabella Hammad, Roland Barthes, Katie Kitamura, and More

By Diana Arterian | February 6, 2025

How a Norwegian Scientist Used Unconventional Means to Reach the North Pole

How a Norwegian Scientist Used Unconventional Means to Reach the North Pole

Neil Shubin on Fridtjof Nansen and the Scientific Legacy of 19th-Century Arctic Exploration

By Neil Shubin | February 6, 2025

Thomas Dai on Mapping, Naming, Borders, and Immigration

Thomas Dai on Mapping, Naming, Borders, and Immigration

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | February 6, 2025

Finding Africa in Harlem: Displacement and Belonging in Claude McKay’s <em>Home to Harlem</em>

Finding Africa in Harlem: Displacement and Belonging in Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem

Belinda Edmondson on the Peripatetic Perspective of a Landmark Novel

By Belinda Edmondson | February 5, 2025

The Pursuit of Happiness: How Do We Find Purpose and Fulfillment in a Chaotic World?

The Pursuit of Happiness: How Do We Find Purpose and Fulfillment in a Chaotic World?

Shigehiro Oishi Considers the Factors and Practices That Lead to a Meaningful Life

By Shigehiro Oishi | February 5, 2025

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