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    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  June 27, 2024
    Book Covers

    The 15 Best Book Covers of June

    By Emily Temple  June 27, 2024
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Tara M. Stringfellow Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  June 27, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Maxim Loskutoff on the Unabomber and the Myth of the American West

    By Fiction Non Fiction  June 27, 2024
    Indie Presses

    How a Small Press Poetry Contest Launched Samuel Beckett’s Career

    By Adam Smyth  June 26, 2024
    Diaries

    Helen Fielding on Bridget Jones and the Subtle Art of Diary Keeping

    By Helen Fielding  June 26, 2024
    Humanitarian Work

    What the Rise of Techno-Humanitarianism Means For Crisis-Hit Communities Across the Globe

    By Jean-Martin Bauer  June 26, 2024
    Pets

    Whatever You Do, Don’t Let Your Cat Do This

    By Dr. Amy Attas  June 26, 2024
    Jewish Identity

    What Unlearning Zionism Can Teach American Jews About Israel and Palestine

    By Oren Kroll-Zeldin  June 26, 2024
    Activism

    An End to Exclusivity: On the Fight For Equitable Land Distribution in Minnesota

    By Audrea Lim  June 26, 2024
    Characters

    Intertwined in Madness: On Turning Yourself into a Character in a Novel

    By Alana Saab  June 26, 2024
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Christopher Chen on Jorge Luis Borges’s “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   June 26, 2024
    What to Watch

    What to Read Before and After Seeing How to Come Alive With Norman Mailer

    By Literary Hub  June 25, 2024
    History of Science

    How Charles Darwin Became a 19th-Century Scientific Rock Star

    By Howard Markel  June 25, 2024
    On Grief

    How Reading Grief Memoirs Helped Cody Delistraty Understand His Loss in New Ways

    By Cody Delistraty  June 25, 2024
    craft advice

    Playing With Time: On the Art of Imagining in Alan Lightman’s Einstein’s Dreams

    By Alizah Holstein  June 25, 2024
    The Critic and Her Publics

    Carina del Valle Schorske on Putting Rhythms into Prose

    By The Critic and Her Publics   June 25, 2024
    Mothers

    Tracy O’Neill on Searching For Her Birth Mother During a Pandemic

    By Tracy O'Neill  June 25, 2024
    Friendship

    Why We All Should Have a “Good Art Friend”

    By Rachel Zimmerman  June 25, 2024
    Poetry

    “1937.” A Poem by Frederick Seidel

    By Frederick Seidel  June 25, 2024
    I'm a Writer But

    Shze-Hui Tjoa on Her Debut Memoir

    By I'm a Writer But   June 25, 2024
    Fantasy

    The Literary Power of Hobbits: How JRR Tolkien Shaped Modern Fantasy

    By Verlyn Flieger  June 24, 2024
    Melodrama

    Brief Encounters: On Claire Messud’s Melodramas

    By Rafaela Bassili  June 24, 2024
    How to Write

    Coffee, Booze, Undressing, Deprivation: How Writers Get in the Mood to Write

    By Caitlin Shetterly  June 24, 2024
    Relationships

    Reading Jill Ciment’s Consent As a Former Teenage Bride

    By Rafia Zakaria  June 24, 2024
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