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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“For all its porno doominess, it often elicits little more than a mild wow.”

By Book Marks | January 19, 2023

Beyond <em>The Artist’s Way</em>: Julia Cameron on Writing for Life

Beyond The Artist’s Way: Julia Cameron on Writing for Life

In Conversation with Joel Fotinos, Virtually at Greenlight Bookstore

By The Virtual Book Channel | January 19, 2023

How Janet Malcolm Created Her Own Personal Archive

How Janet Malcolm Created Her Own Personal Archive

Eve Sneider on Malcolm’s Posthumous Still Pictures

By Eve Sneider | January 18, 2023

Satyrs and Poets and Jazzmen and Muses: Anne Waldman on Life at Bennington in the Early 1960s

Satyrs and Poets and Jazzmen and Muses: Anne Waldman on Life at Bennington in the Early 1960s

“I was competitive with men. I wanted their freedom.”

By Anne Waldman | January 18, 2023

How Scientists Diagnosed King Tut Thousands of Years After His Death

How Scientists Diagnosed King Tut Thousands of Years After His Death

Dale Greenwalt on the Detection of Ancient Diseases

By Dale Greenwalt | January 18, 2023

Daniel Torday on Why There Are No Acknowledgements in His Latest Novel

Daniel Torday on Why There Are No Acknowledgements in His Latest Novel

“That absence grows into not a void, but a validation of a privacy we’ve lost track of in our information-abundant existence.”

By Daniel Torday | January 18, 2023

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How Writing Against Empire Helps Heal Its Enduring Wounds

By Tsitsi Dangarembga | January 18, 2023

WATCH: Tom Crewe and Colm Tóibín on the Joyful History of Gay Life

By The Virtual Book Channel | January 18, 2023

What the Social Lives of Koalas Tell Us About Ourselves

By Danielle Clode | January 18, 2023

Heather Radke on the Profundity of Our Unruly Bodies

Heather Radke on the Profundity of Our Unruly Bodies

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds

By Thresholds | January 18, 2023

Bruce Wagner on Oral Histories and Our Culture’s Obsession with Fame

Bruce Wagner on Oral Histories and Our Culture’s Obsession with Fame

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | January 18, 2023

Dan Kois on Youthful Nostalgia and Rediscovering the Craft of Fiction

Dan Kois on Youthful Nostalgia and Rediscovering the Craft of Fiction

Erica Eisdorfer Talks to the Author of Vintage Contemporaries

By Erica Eisdorfer | January 17, 2023

Dissolution Foretold: Neurosurgeon Henry Marsh on the Reality of His Own Diagnosis

Dissolution Foretold: Neurosurgeon Henry Marsh on the Reality of His Own Diagnosis

“The problem is that our true self, our brain, has changed.”

By Henry Marsh | January 17, 2023

How Leaning into Marginalia Helped Me Accept the Loss of Control That Comes with Publication

How Leaning into Marginalia Helped Me Accept the Loss of Control That Comes with Publication

Josh Riedel on Doodles, Dogears, and Acceptance

By Josh Riedel | January 17, 2023

Kathryn Ma on Writing (Un)Reliable Optimistic Narrators

Kathryn Ma on Writing (Un)Reliable Optimistic Narrators

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of The Chinese Groove

By Jane Ciabattari | January 17, 2023

The Future President and the Novelist: When Norman Mailer Met John F. Kennedy

The Future President and the Novelist: When Norman Mailer Met John F. Kennedy

Richard Bradford on Political Mythmaking and Self-Delusion

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