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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 the 1619 project, Patricia Highsmith's diaries, a Neal Stephenson cli-fi thriller, and more

By Book Marks | November 19, 2021

Lights, Camera... Corn: 15 Quintessentially Midwestern Movies to Watch After <em>Fargo</em>

Lights, Camera... Corn: 15 Quintessentially Midwestern Movies to Watch After Fargo

Charlie Berens Recommends Heartland Classics, from Purple Rain to Planes, Trains and Automobiles

By Charlie Berens | November 19, 2021

Plants and Politics: Rebecca Solnit on George Orwell’s Garden

Plants and Politics: Rebecca Solnit on George Orwell’s Garden

This Week on the Radio Open Source Podcast

By Open Source | November 19, 2021

Finding the Language of Interiority in Saint Augustine’s <em>Confessions</em>

Finding the Language of Interiority in Saint Augustine’s Confessions

Roosevelt Montás on Reading—and Teaching—the Story of a Journey to Conversion

By Roosevelt Montás | November 19, 2021

Amor Towles on How Peter Matthiessen Inspired Him To Write

Amor Towles on How Peter Matthiessen Inspired Him To Write

In Conversation with Mitchell Kaplan on The Literary Life Podcast

By The Literary Life | November 19, 2021

Charles Band on Shooting Inside His Own Castle and Borrowing a Costume from <em>Bram Stoker’s Dracula</em>

Charles Band on Shooting Inside His Own Castle and Borrowing a Costume from Bram Stoker’s Dracula

The Filmmaker Recalls Making The Pit and the Pendulum and Meridian

By Charles Band | November 19, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Country People
  • You Won't Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters
  • Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991
  • A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies
  • It Will Come Back to You: Collected Stories
  • Cloudthief
  • Cool Machine
  • Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast
  • Beginning Middle End
  • They Stole a City: Wilmington's White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live with Its Legacy

On the Culinary Americanization of First-Generation Immigrants

By Priya Fielding-Singh, PhD | November 19, 2021

Greta Kelly on Witches, Magic, and the Complexities of Power in Her New Book

By New Books Network | November 19, 2021

Aviva Chomsky on Why Climate Justice Is Just As Important as Science

By Keen On | November 19, 2021

Nick Ochsner on the Country’s Greatest Electoral Fraud

Nick Ochsner on the Country’s Greatest Electoral Fraud

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | November 19, 2021

Carin Clevidence on the Fallacies of a “Pristine” Antarctica

Carin Clevidence on the Fallacies of a “Pristine” Antarctica

This Week from The Common Podcast

By The Common | November 19, 2021

<em>The Boys</em> by Ron Howard and Clint Howard, Read by the Authors and Bryce Dallas Howard

The Boys by Ron Howard and Clint Howard, Read by the Authors and Bryce Dallas Howard

Their Lives in Hollywood, and At Home

By Behind the Mic | November 19, 2021

“Am I Doing Enough?” Hermione Hoby on Balancing Pleasure and Politics

“Am I Doing Enough?” Hermione Hoby on Balancing Pleasure and Politics

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | November 18, 2021

The Wonder of Collaboration: Finding a New Spark of Creativity with Liana Finck

The Wonder of Collaboration: Finding a New Spark of Creativity with Liana Finck

Luke Burgis on Balancing Distinct Voices and Desires

By Luke Burgis | November 18, 2021

Not Everybody Loves Sebald: 5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Not Everybody Loves Sebald: 5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

John Banville on Picasso, Lauren Oyler on Sebald, Adam Hochschild on The 1619 Project, and more

By Book Marks | November 18, 2021

“It Could Have All Been So Different.” Ron Howard Reflects on His Life and Career

“It Could Have All Been So Different.” Ron Howard Reflects on His Life and Career

From the Family Farm to the Hollywood Hills, From A New Joint Memoir With His Brother Clint Howard

By Ron Howard | November 18, 2021

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