5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Hilton Als on Thom Gunn, Ben Ehrenreich on Barry Lopez, Laura Miller on Kellyanne Conway, and more

By Book Marks | June 2, 2022

In Praise of John Hughes, Patron Saint of Teenagers

In Praise of John Hughes, Patron Saint of Teenagers

Rachel Yoder Guests on the Open Form Podcast

By Open Form | June 2, 2022

How Ida B. Wells Campaigned to Expose the Lies Behind the Lynchings

How Ida B. Wells Campaigned to Expose the Lies Behind the Lynchings

Philip Dray on the Murder of Robert Lewis and Wells's Anti-Lynching Exposés

By Philip Dray | June 2, 2022

How Empirical Databases Have Changed Our Understanding of Early American Slavery

How Empirical Databases Have Changed Our Understanding of Early American Slavery

David Hackett Fischer on New Tools of Truth-Seeking

By David Hackett Fischer | June 2, 2022

Phil Klay: “Killing a Guy is Not the Same as Having a Coherent Military Policy.”

Phil Klay: “Killing a Guy is Not the Same as Having a Coherent Military Policy.”

This Week on the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | June 2, 2022

On Jazmina Barrera’s <em>Linea Nigra</em> and the Untranslatable Experiences of Motherhood

On Jazmina Barrera’s Linea Nigra and the Untranslatable Experiences of Motherhood

Malwina Gudowska: “Language, like motherhood, lives on the body.”

By Malwina Gudowska | June 2, 2022

Best Reviewed
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  • Ghost-Eye
  • Trash!: A Garbageman's Story
  • As If
  • Good Company
  • Radical Duke: How One Aristocrat-And the American Revolution-Transformed Britain
  • Monster of a Land: On the Road in Search of Modern America

“The Díaz Administration Is a Den of Thieves.” Political Activism in Turn-of-the-Century Mexico

By Kelly Lytle Hernández | June 2, 2022

Jean Hanff Korelitz on Being Allowed to Make Things Up

By Literary Hub | June 2, 2022

In the Opioid Epidemic Prosecutions Don’t Always Help Victims

By Valena Beety | June 2, 2022

WATCH: Candice Iloh in Conversation with Ibi Zoboi

WATCH: Candice Iloh in Conversation with Ibi Zoboi

Hosted by Greenlight Bookstore

By The Virtual Book Channel | June 2, 2022

Julia Serano on the Ramifications of “Sissy-Shaming” for Kids of All Genders

Julia Serano on the Ramifications of “Sissy-Shaming” for Kids of All Genders

The Problem with Enforced Emotional Ignorance

By Julia Serano | June 2, 2022

What One American Learnt From Restoring His Family’s English Castle

What One American Learnt From Restoring His Family’s English Castle

Hopwood DePree in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | June 2, 2022

Why Fathers Need to <em>Talk Talk Talk</em> To Their Daughters

Why Fathers Need to Talk Talk Talk To Their Daughters

Kimberly Wolf in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | June 2, 2022

On Rupert Degas, Golden Voice Narrator

On Rupert Degas, Golden Voice Narrator

Celebrating the 2022 Golden Voices

By Behind the Mic | June 2, 2022

Senator Chris Murphy: How Do We Solve the Violence In America

Senator Chris Murphy: How Do We Solve the Violence In America

In Conversation with Roxanne Coady on Just the Right Book

By Just the Right Book | June 2, 2022

Why Sofia Coppola Wanted to Make the (Admittedly Obnoxious) <em>Bling Ring</em>

Why Sofia Coppola Wanted to Make the (Admittedly Obnoxious) Bling Ring

“It was so repellent to me and it was repellent to her, too.”

By Hannah Strong | June 1, 2022

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