5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Of books by J.G. Ballard, Christopher Hitchens, Isaac Fitzgerald, and More

By Book Marks | July 21, 2022

Isaac Fitzgerald on How We Tell Ourselves Stories To Get By

Isaac Fitzgerald on How We Tell Ourselves Stories To Get By

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | July 21, 2022

Vauhini Vara: How Fiction Helps Us Understand the Path We’re on Now

Vauhini Vara: How Fiction Helps Us Understand the Path We’re on Now

This Week on the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | July 21, 2022

Finding Your True Self in Middle Age: Ten Midlife Coming-of-Age Novels

Finding Your True Self in Middle Age: Ten Midlife Coming-of-Age Novels

Sarah McCraw Crow on the Richest Time for Finding Our Truer Selves

By Sarah McCraw Crow | July 21, 2022

On Finding the Strangeness in the Mundane, and Vice Versa

On Finding the Strangeness in the Mundane, and Vice Versa

Alanna Schubach on Balancing the Fantastical with the Familiar

By Alanna Schubach | July 21, 2022

How Madame Mao Remade Hollywood For Chinese Audiences

How Madame Mao Remade Hollywood For Chinese Audiences

Ying Zhu on Jiang Qing's Influence On Mid-Century Chinese Film

By Ying Zhu | July 21, 2022

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  • The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
  • Repetition
  • Night Night Fawn
  • El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory
  • Gunk
  • The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary

The Key to Deceit by Ashley Weaver, Read by Alison Larkin

By Behind the Mic | July 21, 2022

How a Lord of the Rings and Dungeons & Dragons Crossover Almost Happened

By Ben Riggs | July 20, 2022

The Challenges of Writing Fiction About the “Darkest Corner of the Dark Ages”

By Rebecca Stott | July 20, 2022

What Only Musicians and Translators Know

What Only Musicians and Translators Know

Jessica Sequeira on Transforming Emotion into Music and Words

By Jessica Sequeira | July 20, 2022

Bad Hollywood: A Reading List to Understand Harvey Weinstein’s Twisted World

Bad Hollywood: A Reading List to Understand Harvey Weinstein’s Twisted World

Ken Auletta Recommends Ronan Farrow, William Goldman, and More

By Ken Auletta | July 20, 2022

How Final Fantasy VII Taught Me to Write

How Final Fantasy VII Taught Me to Write

Jamil Jan Kochai on Character Building, Storytelling, and Cloud Strife

By Jamil Jan Kochai | July 20, 2022

What Science Can Tell Us About How We Express Ourselves

What Science Can Tell Us About How We Express Ourselves

Batja Mesquita on the Way Language Shapes Emotion Across Cultures

By Batja Mesquita | July 20, 2022

Writing a Book About My Whiteness Forced Me to Confront My Own Lies

Writing a Book About My Whiteness Forced Me to Confront My Own Lies

Baynard Woods on the Infinite Gap Between Self-Conception and Material Reality

By Baynard Woods | July 20, 2022

Crystal Hana Kim on Never Knowing the Full Story of People We Love

Crystal Hana Kim on Never Knowing the Full Story of People We Love

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds

By Thresholds | July 20, 2022

David Koepp on Writing <em>Mission Impossible</em> and Balancing Research and Fiction

David Koepp on Writing Mission Impossible and Balancing Research and Fiction

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | July 20, 2022

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