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

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

Featuring new titles by George Saunders, Barbara Kingsolver, Paul Newman, and More

By Book Marks | October 21, 2022

Revisiting Kier-La Janisse’s <em>House of Psychotic Women</em>, Ten Years Later

Revisiting Kier-La Janisse’s House of Psychotic Women, Ten Years Later

“Every woman who enjoys horror films has at some point felt the need to explain herself.”

By Elizabeth Horkley | October 21, 2022

Reimagining Folklore and Fantasy: Nine Speculative Stories from Asia and the Asian Diaspora

Reimagining Folklore and Fantasy: Nine Speculative Stories from Asia and the Asian Diaspora

Jasmine Sawers Recommends Lucy Zhang, Sequoia Nagamatsu, Priyanka Bose, and More

By Jasmine Sawers | October 21, 2022

David Maraniss on the Afterlife of Jim Thorpe

David Maraniss on the Afterlife of Jim Thorpe

This Week on The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

By The Literary Life | October 21, 2022

“I Was a Seventeen-Year-Old Pornographer.” Steven Heller on His Stint as Art Director of the Underground

“I Was a Seventeen-Year-Old Pornographer.” Steven Heller on His Stint as Art Director of the Underground

“Art direction was a mighty dangerous job.”

By Steven Heller | October 21, 2022

Veteran Reporter Margaret Sullivan’s Favorite Books About Journalism

Veteran Reporter Margaret Sullivan’s Favorite Books About Journalism

From Bob Woodward to Jodi Kantor and More

By Margaret Sullivan | October 21, 2022

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
  • Repetition
  • Night Night Fawn
  • El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory
  • Gunk
  • The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary

Playing with Fear: How Oracle Cards Taught Me To Ask More Honest Questions

By Rita Zoey Chin | October 21, 2022

The Simultaneously Heroic and Shameful Story of African Americans’ in World War II

By Keen On | October 21, 2022

Is American Democracy Really in a State of Emergency?

By Andrew Keen | October 21, 2022

How Friends and Family Can Support Survivors of Domestic Violence

How Friends and Family Can Support Survivors of Domestic Violence

Ruth M. Glenn on Being Present at Every Stage

By Corinne Segal | October 21, 2022

Listen to Chapters 5 and 6 of <em>Dracula</em>

Listen to Chapters 5 and 6 of Dracula

“I am longing to hear all his news. It must be so nice to see strange countries.”

By Audiobook Break | October 21, 2022

<em>Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies</em> by Maddie Mortimer, Read by Tamsin Greig and Lydia Wilson

Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer, Read by Tamsin Greig and Lydia Wilson

An Intimate Listening Experience

By Behind the Mic | October 21, 2022

Sadly, <em>The Peripheral</em> Is Not the Great Cyberpunk Series We’ve Been Waiting for

Sadly, The Peripheral Is Not the Great Cyberpunk Series We’ve Been Waiting for

Dylan Roth Reviews the Bland New Adaptation of William Gibson’s Novel

By Dylan Roth | October 20, 2022

George Saunders on Experiencing the Limits of Your Own Power

George Saunders on Experiencing the Limits of Your Own Power

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | October 20, 2022

The Space Between Notes: What Writers Can Learn From Musicians

The Space Between Notes: What Writers Can Learn From Musicians

Daniel Torday on Writing Towards Resolution, and Everything in Between

By Daniel Torday | October 20, 2022

Pakistan Under Water: Aamina Ahmad on Disaster and Despair After the Historic Floods

Pakistan Under Water: Aamina Ahmad on Disaster and Despair After the Historic Floods

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | October 20, 2022

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