5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“A great Torrey Peters story feels like punching yourself in the face.”

By Book Marks | March 13, 2025

How Shirley Jackson Exposed the Darker, Uncanny Side of Everyday Life

How Shirley Jackson Exposed the Darker, Uncanny Side of Everyday Life

Ruth Franklin on the Moody, Beguiling Stories of an American Icon of Speculative Fiction

By Ruth Franklin | March 13, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Mónica de la Torre Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Mónica de la Torre Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Amelia Rosselli, Samuel Beckett, Prem Krishnamurthy, and Others

By Diana Arterian | March 13, 2025

“Robert Creeley” <br>A Poem by Ron Padgett

“Robert Creeley”
A Poem by Ron Padgett

From the Collection “Pink Dust”

By Ron Padgett | March 13, 2025

Curtis Sittenfeld on Show Don’t Tell

Curtis Sittenfeld on Show Don’t Tell

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | March 13, 2025

Stenographers of Empire: Where is the Moral Courage in the American Media?

Stenographers of Empire: Where is the Moral Courage in the American Media?

For Steven W. Thrasher the Absence of Solidarity Among American Journalists Has Made Donald Trump’s Job That Much Easier

By Steven W. Thrasher | March 12, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Mass Mothering
  • Autobiography of Cotton
  • Good People
  • Empire of Madness: Reimagining Western Mental Health Care for Everyone
  • The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet
  • Second Skin: Inside the Worlds of Fetish, Kink, and Deviant Desire

The Best Villains in Literature Bracket: The Hateful 8

By Literary Hub | March 12, 2025

Sloane Crosley: On the Fine Art of Saying “No”

By Sloane Crosley | March 12, 2025

What the Rise of AI-Powered Weapons Reveals About the State of Modern Warfare

By Christopher Summerfield | March 12, 2025

Karen Russell on What Natural Disasters Can Reveal About the Human Condition

Karen Russell on What Natural Disasters Can Reveal About the Human Condition

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “The Antidote”

By Jane Ciabattari | March 12, 2025

Playing With Paradoxes: Utilizing Time Travel as a Part of Plot and Process

Playing With Paradoxes: Utilizing Time Travel as a Part of Plot and Process

Catriona Silvey on Rewriting Her First Novel With Over a Decade’s Worth of Critical Distance and Life Experience

By Catriona Silvey | March 12, 2025

“The False Friends

“The False Friends" and “Braggart,” Two (Mean) Poems by Dorothy Parker

From “Dorothy Parker: Poems”

By Dorothy Parker | March 12, 2025

5 Essential Books For Better Understanding African Folklore

5 Essential Books For Better Understanding African Folklore

Helen Nde Recommends Isidore Okpewho, Ruth Finnegan, Ibrahim Al-Koni, and More

By Helen Nde | March 12, 2025

Helen Garner on Henry Green's <em>Party Going</em>

Helen Garner on Henry Green's Party Going

In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | March 12, 2025

Carvell Wallace on Changing Perspective

Carvell Wallace on Changing Perspective

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds

By Thresholds | March 12, 2025

The Best Villains in Literature Bracket: The Not-So-Sweet 16

The Best Villains in Literature Bracket: The Not-So-Sweet 16

Round Three!

By Literary Hub | March 11, 2025

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