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May’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

May’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

Featuring New Titles by Adam Higginbotham, Daniel Handler, Kathleen Hanna, and More

By Book Marks | May 31, 2024

What It’s Like to Encounter a Shark When You’re Sailing Alone on the Open Ocean

What It’s Like to Encounter a Shark When You’re Sailing Alone on the Open Ocean

Richard J. King Tells Some Legendary Tales of Sailor-Meets-Ancient Oceanic Predator

By Richard J. King | May 31, 2024

AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of May

AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of May

The Month in Listening Literarily

By Audiofile Magazine | May 31, 2024

Between Languages: Yukiko Tominaga on Writing in English and Japanese

Between Languages: Yukiko Tominaga on Writing in English and Japanese

“Switching around the two languages frees me from my own stigma.”

By Yukiko Tominaga | May 31, 2024

I Think Most Short Stories Are Glorified Therapy Sessions: Am I the Literary Asshole?

I Think Most Short Stories Are Glorified Therapy Sessions: Am I the Literary Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | May 30, 2024

The 14 Best Book Covers of May

The 14 Best Book Covers of May

My Little Pony Realness

By Emily Temple | May 30, 2024

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Permanence
  • No Way Home
  • Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed
  • Small Town Girls: A Writer's Memoir
  • Last Night in Brooklyn
  • If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks | May 30, 2024

Jonny Diamond on His Mother and Alice Munro

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 30, 2024

Literary Catharsis: Jenna Tang on Translating Lin Yi-Han’s Only Novel, Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise

By Jenna Tang | May 30, 2024

Growing Up Racist: How Young White Supremacists Are Taught to Hate

Growing Up Racist: How Young White Supremacists Are Taught to Hate

R. Derek Black on Unlearning the Warped Ideology of Their White Nationalist Childhood

By R. Derek Black | May 30, 2024

What Illness Can—and Cannot—Tell Us About Ourselves

What Illness Can—and Cannot—Tell Us About Ourselves

Graham Caveney on Cancer, the Body and the Philosophy of Mortality

By Graham Caveney | May 30, 2024

Cass Sunstein on How to Become Famous

Cass Sunstein on How to Become Famous

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | May 30, 2024

18 New Novels You Need to Read This Summer

18 New Novels You Need to Read This Summer

More Light, More Books

By Emily Temple | May 29, 2024

Hanif Abdurraqib on Gloria Naylor’s <em>The Women of Brewster Place</em>

Hanif Abdurraqib on Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place

In Conversation for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | May 29, 2024

“Invasion is a Structure Not an Event.” On Settler Colonialism and Joseph Conrad’s <em>Heart of Darkness</em>

“Invasion is a Structure Not an Event.” On Settler Colonialism and Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

Robert G. Parkinson on Historicizing Imperial Encounters at Home and Abroad

By Robert G. Parkinson | May 29, 2024

The Narrative Pleasures of Social Discomfort: A Reading List of School Reunion Stories

The Narrative Pleasures of Social Discomfort: A Reading List of School Reunion Stories

Elise Juska Recommends Mary McCarthy, Sam Lipsyte, Philip Roth, and More

By Elise Juska | May 29, 2024

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