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 New Titles by Joyce Carol Oates, R.O. Kwon, Daniel Handler, Kevin Kwan, and More

By Book Marks | May 24, 2024

Why You Should Let Your Family Read Your Memoir in Advance

Why You Should Let Your Family Read Your Memoir in Advance

Lilly Dancyger on Navigating Hard (Subjective) Truths

By Lilly Dancyger | May 24, 2024

In Honor of Duke Ellington: Here Are 15 Great Books About Jazz

In Honor of Duke Ellington: Here Are 15 Great Books About Jazz

Ed Simon Recommends Langston Hughes, Dorothy Baker, Geoff Dyer, and More

By Ed Simon | May 24, 2024

What the Toxic Morality of Crowdfunded Healthcare Says About American Society

What the Toxic Morality of Crowdfunded Healthcare Says About American Society

Nora Kenworthy on 21st-Century Patchwork Solutions to Persistent Social Inequality

By Nora Kenworthy | May 24, 2024

Respectability Be Damned: How the Harlem Renaissance Paved the Way for Art by Black Nonbelievers

Respectability Be Damned: How the Harlem Renaissance Paved the Way for Art by Black Nonbelievers

Anthony Pinn Explores How James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, and Others Embraced a New Black Humanism

By Anthony B. Pinn | May 24, 2024

Unapologetically Free: A Personal Declaration of Independence From the Formerly Enslaved

Unapologetically Free: A Personal Declaration of Independence From the Formerly Enslaved

Abolitionist and Writer John Swanson Jacobs on Reclaiming Liberty In a Land of Unfreedom

By John Swanson Jacobs | May 24, 2024

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Things We Never Say
  • John of John
  • Ghost Stories: A Memoir
  • The Hill
  • Look What You Made Me Do
  • Backtalker: An American Memoir
  • Mighty Real: A History of LGBTQ Music, 1969-2000
  • Glyph
  • The Village on the Edge of the World: Writing and Surviving in Ceausescu's Romania
  • Dog Days

“It’s Out of Africa Meets Pretty Woman!” On the Problem With Comp Titles

By Maris Kreizman | May 23, 2024

Miranda July Recommends the Best Way to Procrastinate

By Miranda July | May 23, 2024

Rolling the Dice: What Gambling Can Teach Us About Probability

By Tom Chivers | May 23, 2024

Anna Noyes on How Residencies and New Routines Create New Neural Pathways (and Help You Write Better)

Anna Noyes on How Residencies and New Routines Create New Neural Pathways (and Help You Write Better)

Mira Ptacin in Conversation with the Author of “The Blue Maiden”

By Mira Ptacin | May 23, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The Great American Novel is a long-dead cultural aspiration.”

By Book Marks | May 23, 2024

How Walmart’s Business Model Encourages Gender Discrimination

How Walmart’s Business Model Encourages Gender Discrimination

Naomi Cahn, June Carbone, and Nancy Levit Explore the Impact of Extreme Cost-Cutting on Labor Rights

By Naomi Cahn, June Carbone and Nancy Levit | May 23, 2024

An Action Rom-Com? Yes, <em>Hit Man</em> is a Surefire Delight

An Action Rom-Com? Yes, Hit Man is a Surefire Delight

Olivia Rutigliano on Richard Linklater and Glen Powell's New Movie

By Olivia Rutigliano | May 23, 2024

The Annotated Nightstand: What Zoë Bossiere Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Zoë Bossiere Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Katya Apekina, Zoë Schlanger, and Others

By Diana Arterian | May 23, 2024

Monica Youn on PEN, Activism at Literary Awards, and Gaza

Monica Youn on PEN, Activism at Literary Awards, and Gaza

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 23, 2024

What the NFT Phenomenon Tells Us About the Monetary and Creative Value of Art

What the NFT Phenomenon Tells Us About the Monetary and Creative Value of Art

Zachary Small Explores the Intersection of New Technologies, Financial Speculation and Artistic Creation

By Zachary Small | May 22, 2024

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