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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 Colson Whitehead, Michael Cunningham, Claire Vaye Watkins, and More

By Book Marks | July 24, 2026

Michael Cunningham on the Question of Scale in Writing

Michael Cunningham on the Question of Scale in Writing

“It’s only a question of whether you’re looking through a telescope or a microscope.“

By Michael Cunningham | July 24, 2026

How the Role of Book Cover Design Has Changed in the Age of Social Media

How the Role of Book Cover Design Has Changed in the Age of Social Media

Or, Judging a Reader by Their Book Cover

By Madelyn Johnson | July 24, 2026

Christ’s Craft Store, Hobby Lobby, Wouldn’t Have Survived Its First Year Without the Godless Hippies

Christ’s Craft Store, Hobby Lobby, Wouldn’t Have Survived Its First Year Without the Godless Hippies

Michael Blanding on the Origins of a Box Store Behemoth

By Michael Blanding | July 24, 2026

On the Duplicitous Heroine in Wilkie Collins’s <em>No Name</em>

On the Duplicitous Heroine in Wilkie Collins’s No Name

Is Magdalen Vanstone a Detective Using Her Acting Skills or, by Victorian Standards,... a Criminal?

By Olivia Rutigliano | July 24, 2026

On the Complexities and Contradictions of Diasporic Jewish Identity

On the Complexities and Contradictions of Diasporic Jewish Identity

Sander L. Gilman Considers the Tension Between Rootedness and Rootlessness

By Sander L. Gilman | July 24, 2026

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  • Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History
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  • Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made
  • The Rouse

“Drinking the Bees,” a Poem by Christian Wiman

By Christian Wiman | July 24, 2026

The Queer Poetics in Writing About Past and Present Brazilian Politics

By Lara Norgaard | July 24, 2026

Penelope Speaks: Rebecca Solnit on the Western Literary Tradition of Silencing Women

By Rebecca Solnit | July 23, 2026

The First Reviews of </br>Every Raymond Chandler Novel

The First Reviews of
Every Raymond Chandler Novel

“A moody, brooding book, in which Marlowe is less a detective than a disturbed man of 42 on a quest for some evidence of truth and humanity.”

By Book Marks | July 23, 2026

On the Public Historians Reminding Us How Easy It Is to Repeat the Mistakes of the Past

On the Public Historians Reminding Us How Easy It Is to Repeat the Mistakes of the Past

Jim Downs Considers the Important Work of Heather Cox Richardson, Jill Lepore, Kevin Kruse, and More

By Jim Downs | July 23, 2026

For Marx, Capitalism Was Always Going to Destroy the Environment

For Marx, Capitalism Was Always Going to Destroy the Environment

Kōhei Saitō on the Myth of Free Market Solutions to Climate Change

By Kohei Saito | July 23, 2026

God, Sex, Porn, Art, and Aids: Revisiting the Culture Wars of the 1980s and 90s

God, Sex, Porn, Art, and Aids: Revisiting the Culture Wars of the 1980s and 90s

A Conversation With Isaac Butler and Rosa Campbell

By Isaac Butler and Rosa Campbell | July 23, 2026

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“People are objects, terrified of one another as they wake up to nightmarish scenes.”

By Book Marks | July 23, 2026

The Annotated Nightstand: What Victoria Chang is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Victoria Chang is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Amina Cain, Karen Solie, Cecily Parks, and More

By Diana Arterian | July 23, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

For the week ending July 19, 2026

By Literary Hub | July 23, 2026

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