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 Michael Mann’s Heat Sequel, Biographies of Jim Thorpe and Kiki de Montparnasse, and More

By Book Marks | August 12, 2022

How We Remember—and Forget—America’s Tragic Mistake in Afghanistan

How We Remember—and Forget—America’s Tragic Mistake in Afghanistan

Andrew Keen on the Fallout of the Forever War

By Andrew Keen | August 12, 2022

How Vietnamese Immigrants on the Gulf Coast in the Seventies Successfully Fought Back Against the KKK

How Vietnamese Immigrants on the Gulf Coast in the Seventies Successfully Fought Back Against the KKK

Kirk Wallace Johnson in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 12, 2022

Writers and Liars: On Fact, Fiction, and Truth

Writers and Liars: On Fact, Fiction, and Truth

Leslye Penelope Considers the Line Between “Truthy” and Truth

By Leslye Penelope | August 12, 2022

The Tech Industry Isn’t a Meritocracy: Why All Start-Up Boards Should Have More Women and People of Color

The Tech Industry Isn’t a Meritocracy: Why All Start-Up Boards Should Have More Women and People of Color

Brad Feld in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 12, 2022

<em>The Turning</em> by Tim Winton, Read by Humphrey Bower and Caroline Lee

The Turning by Tim Winton, Read by Humphrey Bower and Caroline Lee

A Celebrated Australian Author

By Behind the Mic | August 12, 2022

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Awake Awake
  • Etna
  • Triage
  • The Amateur
  • The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn
  • The Story of Your Life: How Social Media Shapes the Way We Experience Everything
  • The Cruelest Game: Chasing Greatness in Professional Tennis
  • The Ego Trip: Psychedelic Toads, a Trail of Deaths, and the Guru Who Peddled Transcendence
  • The Blue Flame

Dwyer Murphy on the Romantic Optimism in L.A. and South Florida Crime Novels

By The Literary Life | August 12, 2022

Elaine Castillo on Why Everything is Political

By The Maris Review | August 11, 2022

Elif Batuman on the Cult of Family in Get Out

By Open Form | August 11, 2022

Remembering Afghanistan’s Wars: Jamil Jan Kochai on Shifting Storytellers and Forms

Remembering Afghanistan’s Wars: Jamil Jan Kochai on Shifting Storytellers and Forms

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 11, 2022

WATCH: Lynne Tillman and Katie Kitamura Discuss <em>Mothercare</em>

WATCH: Lynne Tillman and Katie Kitamura Discuss Mothercare

Hosted by Greenlight Bookstore

By The Virtual Book Channel | August 11, 2022

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The author achieves a sustained, operatic balance of comedy, grief and despair that is worth the wait.”

By Book Marks | August 11, 2022

Chris Martin on Poetry, Autism, and the Joy of Working With Neurodiverse Writers

Chris Martin on Poetry, Autism, and the Joy of Working With Neurodiverse Writers

"It’s a dance: forever angling toward the autonomy of the student while ensuring that they are not alone."

By Chris Martin | August 11, 2022

A Beautiful, Sacred Thing: Megan Giddings on Going to the Movies To Invoke Anger

A Beautiful, Sacred Thing: Megan Giddings on Going to the Movies To Invoke Anger

Or, Finding the Line Between Art and Entertainment

By Megan Giddings | August 11, 2022

Is This Real Life? Do We Live in a Computer Simulation or Not?

Is This Real Life? Do We Live in a Computer Simulation or Not?

Sabine Hossenfelder Addresses a Burning Question (For Some)

By Sabine Hossenfelder | August 11, 2022

The Overlooked History of the Civil Rights Queen, Constance Baker Motley

The Overlooked History of the Civil Rights Queen, Constance Baker Motley

This Week on the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | August 11, 2022

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