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 Sheila Heti, Marlon James, Buster Keaton, Alejandro Zambra, and more

By Book Marks | February 18, 2022

Erik Larson on Finding a New Angle on History

Erik Larson on Finding a New Angle on History

“There’s always a way to tell an old story in a new way.”

By Erik Larson | February 18, 2022

The Trickster and the Monster: When Nixon Went to China

The Trickster and the Monster: When Nixon Went to China

Chas Freeman and Gish Jen Guest on Radio Open Source

By Open Source | February 18, 2022

How Scholars Once Feared That the Book Index Would Destroy Reading

How Scholars Once Feared That the Book Index Would Destroy Reading

Dennis Duncan on the Hope, History and Necessity of All Those Numbers and Words

By Dennis Duncan | February 18, 2022

The Power of Music in Fiction: A Reading List

The Power of Music in Fiction: A Reading List

Emme Lund Recommends Books Kristen Arnett, C.R. Foster, Andrew Sean Greer, and More

By Emme Lund | February 18, 2022

Nomi Stolzenberg on How a Group of American Hasidic Jews Established Its Own Local Government

Nomi Stolzenberg on How a Group of American Hasidic Jews Established Its Own Local Government

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | February 18, 2022

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Big Kiss, Bye-Bye
  • Bad Bad Girl
  • The Ten Year Affair
  • Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
  • Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
  • Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution

How Deanna Raybourn (Reluctantly) Started Writing Historical Fiction

By New Books Network | February 18, 2022

Wild Swan by Patti Callahan, Read by Cynthia Erivo

By Behind the Mic | February 18, 2022

What Are You Blurbing, Deesha Philyaw?

By The Literary Life | February 18, 2022

Brendan Slocumb on Racism in the Classical Music World

Brendan Slocumb on Racism in the Classical Music World

This Week on the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | February 17, 2022

The Socialite, Property Developer, and Bigamist Who Had Everyone in 18th Century Europe Talking

The Socialite, Property Developer, and Bigamist Who Had Everyone in 18th Century Europe Talking

On the Revelatory Scandals of Elizabeth Chudleigh, aka the Duchess Countess

By Catherine Ostler | February 17, 2022

What Exactly Do Words Taste Like?

What Exactly Do Words Taste Like?

Dr. Guy Leschziner Clues Us In on the Flavor of Language

By Guy Leschziner | February 17, 2022

WATCH: An Evening of Genre- and Gender-Fluid magic with Grace Lavery and Elif Batuman

WATCH: An Evening of Genre- and Gender-Fluid magic with Grace Lavery and Elif Batuman

Hosted by Greenlight Bookstore

By The Virtual Book Channel | February 17, 2022

The Award is the Book: Randall Mann on Poetry Awards, Contests, and Diversity

The Award is the Book: Randall Mann on Poetry Awards, Contests, and Diversity

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | February 17, 2022

Why Julia May Jonas Didn’t Name Her Main Character

Why Julia May Jonas Didn’t Name Her Main Character

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | February 17, 2022

Sheila Heti on Feeling Estranged from the Facts of Existence

Sheila Heti on Feeling Estranged from the Facts of Existence

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | February 17, 2022

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