5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

On New Books by Zora Neale Hurston, Jahn Darnielle, Bernardine Evaristo, and More

By Book Marks | January 20, 2022

WATCH: Colette Brooks and Jennifer Egan on Collective Memory

WATCH: Colette Brooks and Jennifer Egan on Collective Memory

Hosted by Greenlight Bookstore

By The Virtual Book Channel | January 20, 2022

Jami Attenberg on the Book that Realigned Her Brain

Jami Attenberg on the Book that Realigned Her Brain

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | January 20, 2022

“Poetry Wedded to Science.” On the Love and Legacy of Elaine Goodale and Charles Eastman

“Poetry Wedded to Science.” On the Love and Legacy of Elaine Goodale and Charles Eastman

Julie Dobrow Investigates the Political Implications of Interracial Marriage in 19th-Century America

By Julie Dobrow | January 20, 2022

Tareq Azim on Building a Healthy Relationship with Fear

Tareq Azim on Building a Healthy Relationship with Fear

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | January 20, 2022

The Smell of Sun Cream: Glimpses of the Outside World from Communist Albania

The Smell of Sun Cream: Glimpses of the Outside World from Communist Albania

Lea Ypi on Growing Up Within an Isolated Country

By Lea Ypi | January 20, 2022

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • They
  • This Is Not About Us
  • Eradication: A Fable
  • The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief
  • The Last Kings of Hollywood: Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg—And the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema
  • End of Days: Ruby Ridge, the Apocalypse, and the Unmaking of America

Aaron Slater, Illustrator by Andrea Beaty, Read by Sullivan Jones

By Behind the Mic | January 20, 2022

My Year of Reading Every Ursula K. Le Guin Novel

By Susan DeFreitas | January 19, 2022

The Rapturous Love of Patricia Highsmith’s Carol

By Book Marks | January 19, 2022

Charles J. Shields on the Profound and Playful Friendship Between Lorraine Hansberry and James Baldwin

Charles J. Shields on the Profound and Playful Friendship Between Lorraine Hansberry and James Baldwin

“Baldwin loved her caustic wit.”

By Charles J. Shields | January 19, 2022

My Little Drug Story: David Sanchez on (Begrudgingly) Turning to Autofiction

My Little Drug Story: David Sanchez on (Begrudgingly) Turning to Autofiction

On Addiction Tropes, “Grittiness,” and the Freedom to Focus on Ideas

By David Sanchez | January 19, 2022

“To the Reader”

“To the Reader”

A Poem by Vijay Seshadri

By Vijay Seshadri | January 19, 2022

Lea Ypi on Coming of Age Amid Political Upheaval

Lea Ypi on Coming of Age Amid Political Upheaval

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | January 19, 2022

Excavating Emily: Janice P. Nimura on What Draws Biographers to Certain Lives

Excavating Emily: Janice P. Nimura on What Draws Biographers to Certain Lives

And Why Some Mysteries Have to Stay That Way

By Janice P. Nimura | January 19, 2022

Jo Browning Wroe Reads from <em>A Terrible Kindness</em>, a Fictional Account of the 1966 Aberfan Disaster

Jo Browning Wroe Reads from A Terrible Kindness, a Fictional Account of the 1966 Aberfan Disaster

From the 200th Episode of Damian Barr’s Literary Salon Podcast

By Damian Barr's Literary Salon | January 19, 2022

<em>A Spindle Splintered</em> by Alix E. Harrow, Read by Amy Landon

A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow, Read by Amy Landon

A Reimagined, Fractured Sleeping Beauty

By Behind the Mic | January 19, 2022

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