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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“A masterly polemic, its scope so sweeping that it does, finally, seem to explain every pungent odor wafting from Silicon Valley.”

By Book Marks | October 9, 2025

Living in the Shadow of Your Father’s Iconic Song

Living in the Shadow of Your Father’s Iconic Song

Sarah Curtis: “Maybe we’ve just learned what my teenage daughter does not yet fully know: that to be held to a law is often to be loved.”

By Sarah Curtis | October 9, 2025

How America’s First Star War Reporter Set the Tone For a Century of Journalism

How America’s First Star War Reporter Set the Tone For a Century of Journalism

Peter Maass Unpacks the Sensationalist—and Occasionally Biased—Work of Richard Harding Davis

By Peter Maass | October 9, 2025

A Night at Max’s Kansas City: Seeing and Being Seen in the 1970s NYC Art World

A Night at Max’s Kansas City: Seeing and Being Seen in the 1970s NYC Art World

Pat Lipsky on the Rival Groups of Artists Looking for Fame in Greenwich Village

By Pat Lipsky | October 9, 2025

How California’s Legacy of Violence Against Indigenous People Impacts the Present Day

How California’s Legacy of Violence Against Indigenous People Impacts the Present Day

Dina Gilio-Whitaker Unpacks the Complexities Surrounding Native Authenticity

By Dina Gilio-Whitaker | October 9, 2025

Edwidge Danticat on Haiti and Trump, Past and Present

Edwidge Danticat on Haiti and Trump, Past and Present

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | October 9, 2025

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Books of the Week

  • The Things We Never Say
  • John of John
  • Ghost Stories: A Memoir
  • Look What You Made Me Do
  • Backtalker: An American Memoir
  • Glorious Country: How the Artist Frederic Church Brought the World to America and America to the World

How a Democracy Descends Into Murderous Fascism: On Pinochet’s Chile

By Philippe Sands | October 8, 2025

How American Tech Cartels Use Apps to Break the Law

By Cory Doctorow | October 8, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Caren Beilin Is Reading Now, and Next

By Diana Arterian | October 8, 2025

Love and Sustenance: Why Indian Mothers Obsess Over Feeding Our Kids

Love and Sustenance: Why Indian Mothers Obsess Over Feeding Our Kids

Yamini Pathak In Praise of Nourishment From Hand to Mouth, For Mothers and Children Alike

By Yamini Pathak | October 8, 2025

Beyond One-Note Nastiness: On Getting Inside the Head of a Despicable Character

Beyond One-Note Nastiness: On Getting Inside the Head of a Despicable Character

Shannon Bowring Shares Her Experience With Writing From an Antagonist’s Point of View

By Shannon Bowring | October 8, 2025

A Cross-Genre Trek: How Translation Improved My Debut Novel

A Cross-Genre Trek: How Translation Improved My Debut Novel

Laura Venita Green Explores How Learning Italian Has Made Her English Writing Better

By Laura Venita Green | October 8, 2025

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on Hope

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on Hope

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds

By Thresholds | October 8, 2025

Inventing Gertrude Stein, Literary Cubist

Inventing Gertrude Stein, Literary Cubist

Francesca Wade on the Stylistic Innovations That Made the Expatriate Writer Famous in Her Own Country

By Francesca Wade | October 7, 2025

How the Collapse of Local Journalism Led to the Erosion of Community Trust

How the Collapse of Local Journalism Led to the Erosion of Community Trust

Beth Macy on the Vital Role of Small Newspapers in Promoting and Maintaining Civic Life

By Beth Macy | October 7, 2025

The Race to Save a Medieval Palestinian Library

The Race to Save a Medieval Palestinian Library

Ryan Byrnes on the Khalidi Family’s Battle to Protect Their Library From Ultra-Orthodox Settlers

By Ryan Byrnes | October 7, 2025

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