5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Dog Days lends itself to exactly this kind of paranoid reading, not only describing but enacting the magical thinking of trauma survivors.”

By Book Marks | July 30, 2026

What Is the Difference Between Exile and Exiles?

What Is the Difference Between Exile and Exiles?

Roger Celestin on Writing About Not Being Able to Go Back Home

By Roger Celestin | July 30, 2026

One Man’s Crazy Scheme to Create a New County in Northern Ireland

One Man’s Crazy Scheme to Create a New County in Northern Ireland

Jan Carson on Tethering the Fantastical to the Factual

By Jan Carson | July 30, 2026

Lupe Mendez on Texas Politics and the Killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo

Lupe Mendez on Texas Politics and the Killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and Jennifer Maritza McCauley on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | July 30, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

For the week ending July 26, 2026

By Literary Hub | July 30, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

For the week ending July 26, 2026

By Literary Hub | July 30, 2026

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Annie Proulx Stories: New and Selected
  • The Intangibles: Friendship, Fatherhood, and the Love of the Game
  • The Telephone: A New History
  • No Such Thing as Monday
  • O Now!
  • Don't Stop Snowing
  • The Key Biscayne Affair
  • Vocal Break: On Women, Music, and Power
  • Aristocracy, American Style: Class Privilege and the Persistence of Elite Power
  • Ten Lives: How What We Have Shapes Who We Are

Fish Bad, Sugar Good... And Other Medieval Ideas About Food

By Katherine Harvey | July 29, 2026

The Tragedy of Loving Sylvia Plath

By Sarai Walker | July 29, 2026

Organized Rebellion: How Nightlife Evolved Throughout the Ages

By Imogen Willetts | July 29, 2026

The Sea Otter and the Abalone: On the Intertwined Fates of California’s Wildlife

The Sea Otter and the Abalone: On the Intertwined Fates of California’s Wildlife

Joseph Ogilvy Explores the Impact of Colonization, Trade and Westward Expansion on the Environment

By Joseph Ogilvy | July 29, 2026

What Happens When the War on Drugs Turns Into a Wellness Fad

What Happens When the War on Drugs Turns Into a Wellness Fad

Kojo Karam on the Industrialization of Psychedelics

By Kojo Koram | July 29, 2026

What It Means to Come From Appalachian Coal Country

What It Means to Come From Appalachian Coal Country

Emilee Hackney Considers Family History Alongside the Rise and Fall of the Coal Industry

By Emilee Hackney | July 29, 2026

Gwendoline Riley on Mark Van Doren's <em>Shakespeare</em>

Gwendoline Riley on Mark Van Doren's Shakespeare

In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | July 29, 2026

What I Learned from a Close Read of All of Colson Whitehead’s Work

What I Learned from a Close Read of All of Colson Whitehead’s Work

Jane Ciabattari on the Prizewinning Chronicler of New York City’s Journey Through Genre

By Jane Ciabattari | July 28, 2026

On the Populist Parallels Between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump

On the Populist Parallels Between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump

Inside the 2016 Election, From Bernie Sanders’s Chief Strategist

By Tad Devine | July 28, 2026

What Happens When Literary Passion Leads to Physical Illness?

What Happens When Literary Passion Leads to Physical Illness?

Max Lawton In Praise of Writing and Translating That Consumes Us To the Fullest

By Max Lawton | July 28, 2026

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