5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Stephen King on Celeste Ng, Lauren Michele Jackson on Namwali Serpell, and More

By Book Marks | September 29, 2022

More Than Tutus and Pointe Shoes: A Reading List of Ballet Books

More Than Tutus and Pointe Shoes: A Reading List of Ballet Books

Martha Anne Toll Recommends Sigrid Nunez, Julie Orringer, Alexandra Danilova, and More

By Martha Anne Toll | September 29, 2022

How Ross McCall Prepared for His Role in <em>Band of Brothers</em>

How Ross McCall Prepared for His Role in Band of Brothers

From the We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | September 29, 2022

Saeed Jones on the Poetic Economy of Language

Saeed Jones on the Poetic Economy of Language

This Week on The Writers Institute Podcast, From the Archives of the New York State Writers Institute

By The Writers Institute | September 29, 2022

<em>The Pallbearers Club </em>by Paul Tremblay, Read by a Full Cast

The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay, Read by a Full Cast

A crescendo of horror, humor, and decadence

By Behind the Mic | September 29, 2022

The Impact of <em>The Secret Lives of Church Ladies</em>, Two Years Later

The Impact of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, Two Years Later

From the Ursa Short Fiction Podcast with Deesha Philyaw and Dawnie Walton

By Ursa | September 29, 2022

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  • Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward
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  • A Tender Age
  • Under the Falls
  • The Responsible Party
  • Depraved: The Story of Dangerous Art
  • A Guide to Open Water Lifesaving: Lessons on Love, Care, and Survival: A Memoir
  • Days of Miracle and Wonder: Paul Simon and the Trials and Triumphs of Graceland
  • Hocus Pocus
  • Are They Dead Yet?: The Art of the Obit

Sisters Matsumoto Act I and II: Hope and Heartache After a Japanese Internment Camp

By Audiobook Break | September 29, 2022

How Trust, Power, and Credit Have Shaped America Over the Last Two Hundred Years

By Keen On | September 28, 2022

Indian Writers on 75 Years of Independence and Partition

By Literary Hub | September 28, 2022

A Brief History of (My) Dark Academia

A Brief History of (My) Dark Academia

"Dark academia is academia’s black swan and shadow self."

By Adrienne Raphel | September 28, 2022

The Found Poems of Goliarda Sapienza

The Found Poems of Goliarda Sapienza

Chiara Barzini on the Vibrant Poems of the Late Italian Poet

By Chiara Barzini | September 28, 2022

Intimacy and Manipulation: A Reading List of Fictional Diaries

Intimacy and Manipulation: A Reading List of Fictional Diaries

Elizabeth Brooks Recommends Books by E.M. Delafield, Margaret Forster, and More

By Elizabeth Brooks | September 28, 2022

WATCH: Emma Ramadan on Translating Marguerite Duras’s <em>Panics</em>

WATCH: Emma Ramadan on Translating Marguerite Duras’s Panics

In Conversation with Kate Zambreno at Greenlight Bookstore

By The Virtual Book Channel | September 28, 2022

Interview with an Indie Press: Coach House Books

Interview with an Indie Press: Coach House Books

On Publishing the Unexpected, Adventurous, and Exceptional

By Corinne Segal | September 28, 2022

What Makes Spiders So Terribly Scary to Human Beings?

What Makes Spiders So Terribly Scary to Human Beings?

Kate Summerscale on the Enduring Persistence of Arachnophobia

By Kate Summerscale | September 28, 2022

Who Has the Right to Bear Arms? A Brief History

Who Has the Right to Bear Arms? A Brief History

Elsa Dorlin on Legal Traditions of Self-Defense

By Elsa Dorlin | September 28, 2022

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