5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“A family is always a bit of a fantasy, requiring some realist puncturing. Every good biographer, then, is a problem child.”

By Book Marks | March 19, 2026

“It’s a Steal.” <br>A Poem by Seema Jilani

“It’s a Steal.”
A Poem by Seema Jilani

New Work by the Doctor, Humanitarian Aid Worker, and Writer

By Seema Jilani | March 19, 2026

A Singular Pursuit: Why All Writing (and All Writers) Matter More Than Ever Today

A Singular Pursuit: Why All Writing (and All Writers) Matter More Than Ever Today

“To write is to think and to think is to be human and to be human, in all its marvelous complexity.”

By Timothy J. Hillegonds | March 19, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

For the week ending March 15, 2026

By Literary Hub | March 19, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

For the week ending March 15, 2026

By Literary Hub | March 19, 2026

Jeff Boyd on Cops, Teachers, and Chicago

Jeff Boyd on Cops, Teachers, and Chicago

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | March 19, 2026

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Annie Proulx Stories: New and Selected
  • The Intangibles: Friendship, Fatherhood, and the Love of the Game
  • The Telephone: A New History
  • No Such Thing as Monday
  • O Now!
  • Don't Stop Snowing
  • The Key Biscayne Affair
  • Vocal Break: On Women, Music, and Power
  • Aristocracy, American Style: Class Privilege and the Persistence of Elite Power
  • Ten Lives: How What We Have Shapes Who We Are

On the Laughable Origins of the Far Right’s Beloved “Great Replacement Theory”

By Ibram X. Kendi | March 18, 2026

From Glasnost to Silence: The Collapse of Literary Freedom in Russia

By Svetlana Satchkova | March 18, 2026

When the Fountain Runs Dry: On Aging, Immortality and the Illusion of Everlasting Youth

By Casey Scieszka | March 18, 2026

The Five Best Celebrity/Normal Person Romance Novels to Read

The Five Best Celebrity/Normal Person Romance Novels to Read

Haruka Iwasaki Recommends Jasmine Guillory, Rachel Reid, Alexandra Romanoff, and More

By Haruka Iwasaki | March 18, 2026

We Have Too Little Time (and This Makes Us All Too Human)

We Have Too Little Time (and This Makes Us All Too Human)

Rivka Weinberg on the Brevity of Our Beautiful Little Lives

By Rivka Weinberg | March 18, 2026

On the Beautiful, Terrible Villains of Reality Television

On the Beautiful, Terrible Villains of Reality Television

“What, you act like I have a new face or something.”

By Jack Balderrama Morley | March 18, 2026

Meet Hildegard of Bingen, the German Mystic Who Destigmatized Women’s Health

Meet Hildegard of Bingen, the German Mystic Who Destigmatized Women’s Health

Elinor Cleghorn on Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood in Medieval Europe

By Elinor Cleghorn | March 18, 2026

Enchantment is Possible

Enchantment is Possible

The Cosmic Library's Proust season reaches its inevitable conclusion!

By The Cosmic Library | March 18, 2026

Love Stories, Feminism, and Why Cemeteries Are Sexy

Love Stories, Feminism, and Why Cemeteries Are Sexy

Jessica Ferri on Ann Rower’s Lee and Elaine

By Jessica Ferri | March 17, 2026

What Playing Basketball Taught Me About the Creative Process

What Playing Basketball Taught Me About the Creative Process

Ben Markovits on the Lessons He Learned About Writing From Sports

By Ben Markovits | March 17, 2026

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