The 10 Best Book Reviews of 2021

The 10 Best Book Reviews of 2021

Merve Emre on Simone de Beauvoir, Justin Taylor on Joy Williams, and more

By Adam Morgan | December 20, 2021

Ginsberg, Didion, Sontag: Inside the Apartments of New York City Literary Legends, c. 1995

Ginsberg, Didion, Sontag: Inside the Apartments of New York City Literary Legends, c. 1995

Dominique Nabokov's "New York Living Rooms" Project

By Dominique Nabokov | December 20, 2021

Orhan Pamuk on a Lost Pool, and the World Beneath Its Surface

Orhan Pamuk on a Lost Pool, and the World Beneath Its Surface

A Childhood Memory of the Seaside

By Orhan Pamuk | December 20, 2021

The 10 Biggest Literary Stories of the Year

The 10 Biggest Literary Stories of the Year

From Franzen to Kidneygate

By Literary Hub | December 20, 2021

Why You Shouldn’t Read Historical Fiction to Learn History

Why You Shouldn’t Read Historical Fiction to Learn History

Juhea Kim on the Role of Literature in Lessons About Humanity

By Juhea Kim | December 20, 2021

Phil Klay on Evelyn Waugh’s Catholic, Conservative, and Curmudgeonly Ways

Phil Klay on Evelyn Waugh’s Catholic, Conservative, and Curmudgeonly Ways

From the History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | December 20, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • House of Day, House of Night
  • The Award
  • Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
  • Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
  • Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
  • The Six Loves of James I

On the Most Adapted Ghost Story of All Time

By Adam Scovell | December 20, 2021

Zahia Rahmani on Discovering Ursula K. Le Guin in 2021

By Zahia Rahmani | December 20, 2021

Dr. Eric Topol on Ground Truths and COVID-19

By Keen On | December 20, 2021

<em>The Sentence</em> by Louise Erdrich, Read by the Author

The Sentence by Louise Erdrich, Read by the Author

There’s Someone Haunting Birchbark Books

By Behind the Mic | December 20, 2021

Tristan McConnell on the Long, Ongoing History of Turkana

Tristan McConnell on the Long, Ongoing History of Turkana

This Week From the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | December 20, 2021

Rob Goodman on the Pursuit of Eloquence

Rob Goodman on the Pursuit of Eloquence

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | December 20, 2021

The Best Literary Film and Television of the Year

The Best Literary Film and Television of the Year

Love, Languishing, and What We Watched

By Emily Temple | December 17, 2021

The Best Reviewed Literature in Translation of 2021

The Best Reviewed Literature in Translation of 2021

Featuring Jhumpa Lahiri, Haruki Murakami, Tove Ditlevsen, Ai Weiwei, Mieko Kawakami, and more

By Book Marks | December 17, 2021

In <em>Licorice Pizza</em>, Everyone is Pretending to Be a Grown-Up. Especially the Grown-Ups.

In Licorice Pizza, Everyone is Pretending to Be a Grown-Up. Especially the Grown-Ups.

Olivia Rutigliano on Paul Thomas Anderson’s Latest Film

By Olivia Rutigliano | December 17, 2021

Rabih Alameddine Asks His MFA Students for <em>Their</em> Favorite Novels of the Year

Rabih Alameddine Asks His MFA Students for Their Favorite Novels of the Year

Students Weigh in on Their Favorite Titles

By Rabih Alameddine | December 17, 2021

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