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 Jason Mott, Åsne Seierstad, Elaine Castillo, and More

By Book Marks | August 8, 2025

Dreading Those Sunny Days: The Perils of Surviving Without Shade as a Homeless Person

Dreading Those Sunny Days: The Perils of Surviving Without Shade as a Homeless Person

Sam Bloch Shines Light on How Sun Relief as an Economic Resource in the Era of Capitalism and Climate Change

By Sam Bloch | August 8, 2025

After the Spike: What Slow and Steady Depopulation Means For the World

After the Spike: What Slow and Steady Depopulation Means For the World

Dean Spears and Michael Geruso on the New Normal For Global Population Growth and Decline

By Dean Spears and Michael Geruso | August 8, 2025

A Fantastical Odyssey Through Renaissance Italy: Álvaro Enrigue on <em>Bomarzo</em>

A Fantastical Odyssey Through Renaissance Italy: Álvaro Enrigue on Bomarzo

“Mujica Lainez’s Duke of Bomarzo is a lantern that illuminates... our tenebrous but also brilliant little lives.”

By Álvaro Enrigue | August 8, 2025

The Case for Renaming Kafka’s <em>Metamorphosis</em> as <em>The Transformation</em>

The Case for Renaming Kafka’s Metamorphosis as The Transformation

Mark Harman Digs into the History and Linguistic Choices of Translating an Uncanny Classic

By Mark Harman | August 8, 2025

Jessica Gross on Writing a New York Novel as an Ex-New Yorker

Jessica Gross on Writing a New York Novel as an Ex-New Yorker

How to Get Back in a New York State of Mind

By Jessica Gross | August 8, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

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  • London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
  • Attention: Writing on Life, Art, and the World
  • The Oyster Diaries
  • Yesteryear
  • Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund

The Poet Who Watched a Football Game on Nagasaki’s Atomic Killing Field

By Greg Mitchell | August 8, 2025

Am I the Literary Asshole For Prioritizing My Writing Over the People in My Life?

By Kristen Arnett | August 7, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks | August 7, 2025

A City of Dreams and Dreamers: Ella Berman on Writing About Los Angeles

A City of Dreams and Dreamers: Ella Berman on Writing About Los Angeles

“There is no doubt that if anyone is capable of rebuilding and renewing, it is Los Angeles.”

By Ella Berman | August 7, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Chloe Caldwell Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Chloe Caldwell Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Sheila Heti, Yiyun Li, Hala Alyan, and Others

By Diana Arterian | August 7, 2025

Power and Punishment: How Colonists Legislated the First Slaves in America into Existence

Power and Punishment: How Colonists Legislated the First Slaves in America into Existence

Princess Joy L. Perry on Freedom, Servitude, and Writing a Novel Set in the Seventeenth Century

By Princess Joy L. Perry | August 7, 2025

Barbara Kingsolver on Supporting Appalachian Women Recovering from Addiction

Barbara Kingsolver on Supporting Appalachian Women Recovering from Addiction

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 7, 2025

Carl Phillips and Aditi Machado Feel Like Radically Different Poets

Carl Phillips and Aditi Machado Feel Like Radically Different Poets

In Conversation with Lena Crown on Awakeners

By awakeners | August 7, 2025

On the Particular Joys of Etymological Detective Work

On the Particular Joys of Etymological Detective Work

Martha Barnette Explores the Shared Proto-Indo-European Origins of a Diverse Group of Modern Languages

By Martha Barnette | August 6, 2025

On the Future of Small Presses in the Aftermath of the NEA Grant Chaos

On the Future of Small Presses in the Aftermath of the NEA Grant Chaos

Elizabeth Cook Breaks Down the “Uncertainty, Disrespect, and Bullying” of the Federal Government

By Elizabeth Kaye Cook | August 6, 2025

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