5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The novel runs on an engine that relentlessly converts suffering, usually of the inner-turmoil variety, into comedic relief.”

By Book Marks | March 28, 2024

The 22 Best Book Covers of March

The 22 Best Book Covers of March

The colors are coming out.

By Emily Temple | March 28, 2024

The Chronicler of Asian America: Hua Hsu on Photographer and Activist Corky Lee

The Chronicler of Asian America: Hua Hsu on Photographer and Activist Corky Lee

“We await our moment, in pursuit of the picture that Corky envisaged, a portrait of a community that is too large and too brilliant.”

By Hua Hsu | March 28, 2024

No Perfect Laps, No Perfect Drafts: Jade Song on What Swimming Taught Her About Writing

No Perfect Laps, No Perfect Drafts: Jade Song on What Swimming Taught Her About Writing

The Author of “Chlorine” Reflects on Being a Teenage Athlete and the Dangers of Perfectionism

By Jade Song | March 28, 2024

Romance Finely Aged: On the Unique Dynamic of Older Couples

Romance Finely Aged: On the Unique Dynamic of Older Couples

Carys Davies Considers Fictional Representations of Romance Among the Elderly

By Carys Davies | March 28, 2024

Ten Unforgettable Baseball Nicknames of Yesteryear

Ten Unforgettable Baseball Nicknames of Yesteryear

Kevin Baker Takes Us On a Journey Through New York City Baseball History

By Kevin Baker | March 28, 2024

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Ghost-Eye
  • Trash!: A Garbageman's Story
  • As If
  • Good Company
  • Radical Duke: How One Aristocrat-And the American Revolution-Transformed Britain
  • Monster of a Land: On the Road in Search of Modern America

Sally Franson on Fashion and Literature

By Fiction Non Fiction | March 28, 2024

How Candida Royalle Redefined the Role of Women in Porn

By Jane Kamensky | March 27, 2024

Earth, Head, and Heart: Six Deeply Researched Eco-Memoirs

By Greg Wrenn | March 27, 2024

Greek Tragedy in the Bottom of the Ninth: On Baseball’s High Literary Drama

Greek Tragedy in the Bottom of the Ninth: On Baseball’s High Literary Drama

Keith O'Brien Recommends David Halberstam, Jonathan Mahler, Joe Posnanski, and More

By Keith O'Brien | March 27, 2024

On Publishing My Memoir of Grief As My Father Lays Dying

On Publishing My Memoir of Grief As My Father Lays Dying

Kristine S. Ervin: “I need to be that daughter again, who can cry into the chest of my father.”

By Kristine S. Ervin | March 27, 2024

Alexandra Tanner on Vulnerability, Making Money as a Writer, and Taking Literary Shortcuts

Alexandra Tanner on Vulnerability, Making Money as a Writer, and Taking Literary Shortcuts

The Author of "Worry" in Conversation with Sasha Fletcher

By Sasha Fletcher | March 27, 2024

The Annotated Nightstand: What Hanif Abdurraqib is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Hanif Abdurraqib is Reading Now and Next

Featuring Maggie Nelson, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Dior J. Stephens and More

By Diana Arterian | March 27, 2024

Jenny Odell on Reading the Rocks

Jenny Odell on Reading the Rocks

This Week from the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | March 27, 2024

Bob Blaisdell on Karl Ove Knausgaard

Bob Blaisdell on Karl Ove Knausgaard

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | March 27, 2024

Moira Donegan on Cultivating Invulnerability

Moira Donegan on Cultivating Invulnerability

In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics

By The Critic and Her Publics | March 26, 2024

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