What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Month

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Month

Featuring New Titles by Elif Batuman, Jhumpa Lahiri, Colin Barrett, Ali Smith, and More

By Book Marks | May 27, 2022

Maggie Shipstead on Dealing with Mistakes in Writing

Maggie Shipstead on Dealing with Mistakes in Writing

“Mistakes might be inevitable, but I think they are worth mitigating.”

By Maggie Shipstead | May 27, 2022

Finding Love (and Marriage) by Accident in Upstate New York

Finding Love (and Marriage) by Accident in Upstate New York

Aileen Weintraub on the Time She Met Her Future Husband in the Grocery Store

By Aileen Weintraub | May 27, 2022

Visiting My Feminist Foremothers in a Mostly Inaccessible City

Visiting My Feminist Foremothers in a Mostly Inaccessible City

Victoria Reynolds Farmer on Virginia Woolf, Aphra Behn, and a Trip to London

By Victoria Reynolds Farmer | May 27, 2022

When London Got the Marilyn Monroe Fever

When London Got the Marilyn Monroe Fever

“And so started a summer of Brits, young and old, doing everything they could to be just like Marilyn.”

By Michelle Morgan | May 27, 2022

Interview with an Indie Press: Dzanc Books

Interview with an Indie Press: Dzanc Books

On Publishing Books that “Take Language Seriously”

By Corinne Segal | May 27, 2022

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Rest of Our Lives
  • Call Me Ishmaelle
  • This Is Where the Serpent Lives
  • Lost Lambs
  • Winter: The Story of a Season
  • The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
  • Departure(s)
  • Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China
  • The Flower Bearers
  • Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood

“Deciding to Put My Writing Out There Has Changed My Life.” A Conversation with Jillian Luft

By Micro Podcast | May 27, 2022

How Did a Fictionalized Leonard Cohen End Up in My Novel?

By Francesca Giacco | May 27, 2022

Caroline Elkins on the Gruesome Rule of the British Empire

By Open Source | May 27, 2022

The Simple Writing Prompt That Launched R. Cathey Daniels' Debut Novel

The Simple Writing Prompt That Launched R. Cathey Daniels' Debut Novel

In Conversation with G.P. Gottlieb on the New Books Network

By New Books Network | May 27, 2022

Cheryl Collins Isaac on Writing About Ballet, and the Intersection of Beauty and Pain

Cheryl Collins Isaac on Writing About Ballet, and the Intersection of Beauty and Pain

This Week from The Common Podcast

By The Common | May 27, 2022

<em>Nick and Charlie</em> by Alice Oseman, Read by Huw Parmenter and Sam Newton

Nick and Charlie by Alice Oseman, Read by Huw Parmenter and Sam Newton

All the love for Heartstopper’s Nick and Charlie

By Behind the Mic | May 27, 2022

Steve Almond on the Myth of Reaganism

Steve Almond on the Myth of Reaganism

In Conversation with Mitchell Kaplan on The Literary Life Podcast

By The Literary Life | May 27, 2022

Nikole Hannah-Jones and Gio Swaby on Portraiture that Uplifts Black Women

Nikole Hannah-Jones and Gio Swaby on Portraiture that Uplifts Black Women

Celebrating Swaby's Loving, Attentive Practice

By Nikole Hannah-Jones | May 26, 2022

Digging Around in the Dirt: What Gardening Can Teach Writers

Digging Around in the Dirt: What Gardening Can Teach Writers

Catie Marron on Learning to Understand Soil

By Catie Marron | May 26, 2022

Does Care Require Sacrifice? On Suffering and Dignity in Elif Batuman’s <em>Either/Or</em>

Does Care Require Sacrifice? On Suffering and Dignity in Elif Batuman’s Either/Or

Catherine Nichols Goes Looking for Kierkegaard and Finds an Unrequited Crush

By Catherine Nichols | May 26, 2022

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