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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

”...so self-indulgent, so grossly stereotyped, so shameless and insipid that one is almost astonished that he has dared.“

By Book Marks | October 20, 2022

Imani Perry: To Understand America, We Have to Understand the South

Imani Perry: To Understand America, We Have to Understand the South

This Week on the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | October 20, 2022

How Do the Books We Read Change Our Brains?

How Do the Books We Read Change Our Brains?

Gregory Berns on Measuring the Effects of a Really Good Story

By Gregory Berns | October 20, 2022

Life Advice for Book Lovers: Mourning Possibility and Leaping Into New Life

Life Advice for Book Lovers: Mourning Possibility and Leaping Into New Life

Book Recommendations to Help the Troubled Soul

By Dorothea | October 20, 2022

Raising Them Right: The Untold Story of America’s Ultraconservative Youth Movement and Its Plot For Power

Raising Them Right: The Untold Story of America’s Ultraconservative Youth Movement and Its Plot For Power

Kyle Spencer in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | October 20, 2022

The Annotated Nightstand: What Maira Kalman is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Maira Kalman is Reading Now and Next

A Series by Diana Arterian

By Diana Arterian | October 20, 2022

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945
  • Under Water
  • Paradiso 17
  • The Plans I Have for You
  • In Search of Now: The Science of the Present Moment
  • Stephen Sondheim: Art Isn't Easy

How Much Has Changed—And Not Changed—Since the First Rape Trial in American History

By Just the Right Book | October 20, 2022

How Magnolia Engages with the Aftermath of Being in a Dysfunctional Family

By Open Form | October 20, 2022

“The character of something.” A Poem by Rebecca Wolff

By Rebecca Wolff | October 20, 2022

On Writing and Sweating: How a Boutique Fitness Class Fueled My Novel

On Writing and Sweating: How a Boutique Fitness Class Fueled My Novel

Sheila Yasmin Marikar on Body by Simone and the Promise of Transformation

By Sheila Yasmin Marikar | October 20, 2022

Polenta, Pizza, Polenta-Pizza, Polizza, or Polenta Not-A-Pizza?

Polenta, Pizza, Polenta-Pizza, Polizza, or Polenta Not-A-Pizza?

Yotam Ottolenghi and Noor Murad Put a Twist on Classic Baked Polenta

By Yotam Ottolenghi and Noor Murad | October 20, 2022

How Dick Gregory Learned to Subvert Racist Audiences

How Dick Gregory Learned to Subvert Racist Audiences

“I went all the way back to childhood.”

By Dick Gregory | October 20, 2022

How I Created Community With a Ramones Fan Club

How I Created Community With a Ramones Fan Club

Kid Congo Powers on the Smartest, Dumbest Rock ’n’ Roll Band There Ever Was

By Kid Congo Powers | October 20, 2022

Jess Walter on Writing About Hope (Without Losing His Literary Cool)

Jess Walter on Writing About Hope (Without Losing His Literary Cool)

From Micro, a Podcast for Short But Powerful Writing

By Micro Podcast | October 20, 2022

How the Story of a 2006 Murder Captures the Tragic Complexity of Inequality, Class, and Violence in 21st-Century America

How the Story of a 2006 Murder Captures the Tragic Complexity of Inequality, Class, and Violence in 21st-Century America

Nicholas Dawidoff in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | October 20, 2022

<em>The Women Could Fly</em> by Megan Giddings, Read by Angel Pean

The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings, Read by Angel Pean

A Chilling Alternative Future

By Behind the Mic | October 20, 2022

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