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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The sex improves; the prose does not.”

By Dan Sheehan | August 4, 2022

13 Ways of Looking at a Virus: Joseph Osmundson on the Visual Side of Virology

13 Ways of Looking at a Virus: Joseph Osmundson on the Visual Side of Virology

Part Two in the “13 Ways of Looking” Series

By Joseph Osmundson | August 4, 2022

How to Adapt Edith Wharton: In Praise of Terence Davies’s <em>The House of Mirth</em>

How to Adapt Edith Wharton: In Praise of Terence Davies’s The House of Mirth

With Two Wharton Projects in the Works, What Can Be Learned from the Masterful 2000 Adaptation?

By Robert Stinner | August 4, 2022

Samuel Amadon on Self-Reinvention and Trusting Your Own Style

Samuel Amadon on Self-Reinvention and Trusting Your Own Style

Peter Mishler Talks With the Author of Often, Common, Some, And Free

By Peter Mishler | August 4, 2022

The Fall of Boris Johnson: Margot Livesey on British Politics, the Brexit Blunder, and the Prime Minister’s Lies

The Fall of Boris Johnson: Margot Livesey on British Politics, the Brexit Blunder, and the Prime Minister’s Lies

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 4, 2022

On the Merging of Fact and Fiction in a Berlin Haunted by a History of Secrecy and Lies

On the Merging of Fact and Fiction in a Berlin Haunted by a History of Secrecy and Lies

Dan Fesperman in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 4, 2022

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  • The History of Money: A Story of Humanity
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How Kiki de Montparnasse Made Her Life Into a Work of Art

By Mark Braude | August 4, 2022

WATCH: Chinelo Okparanta and Akwaeke Emezi on the Tensions of Our Time

By The Virtual Book Channel | August 4, 2022

The Mystery of the Indestructible Beetle

By Lulu Miller | August 4, 2022

18th-Century Vienna Through the Eyes of a Woman Traveler

18th-Century Vienna Through the Eyes of a Woman Traveler

Angus Robertson on Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Experiences in the Heart of the Holy Roman Empire

By Angus Robertson | August 4, 2022

Why America Remains Haunted by Richard Nixon and His Paranoia About the Sixties

Why America Remains Haunted by Richard Nixon and His Paranoia About the Sixties

Kevin Boyle in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 4, 2022

On the Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits, and Cocktails

On the Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits, and Cocktails

Camper English in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 4, 2022

Erika Krouse on Why the Subtitle of Her Memoir Should Be <em>How I Became an Asshole</em>

Erika Krouse on Why the Subtitle of Her Memoir Should Be How I Became an Asshole

This Week on the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | August 4, 2022

<em>August Kitko and the Mechas from Space</em> by Alex White, Read by Hayden Bishop

August Kitko and the Mechas from Space by Alex White, Read by Hayden Bishop

A Fantastical and Musical Space Opera

By Behind the Mic | August 4, 2022

Lynne Tillman on Watching a Mother’s Final Days

Lynne Tillman on Watching a Mother’s Final Days

“Dying is inevitable, but estranged from anything you know.”

By Lynne Tillman | August 3, 2022

Meet-Cute: Susan Coll on Falling In Love with (and at) a Bookstore

Meet-Cute: Susan Coll on Falling In Love with (and at) a Bookstore

And They All Lived Happily Ever After

By Susan Coll | August 3, 2022

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