5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The narrator’s voice is an extraordinary hybrid of a boy’s plaintive innocence and a man’s wry reflection.”

By Book Marks | January 9, 2025

Even Elon Musk Can’t Bring Down Black Twitter

Even Elon Musk Can’t Bring Down Black Twitter

Meredith D. Clark on Social Media as a Space of Solidarity and Community in the Face of Fascist Takeover

By Meredith D. Clark | January 9, 2025

Why Did We Start Drinking Milk? On the Ancient Rise of Dairy Consumption

Why Did We Start Drinking Milk? On the Ancient Rise of Dairy Consumption

Anne Mendelson Explores the Prehistoric Origins of Modern Agriculture and Human-Animal Relations

By Anne Mendelson | January 9, 2025

I Want to Write About This Jerk Who Ghosted Me: Am I the Literary Asshole?

I Want to Write About This Jerk Who Ghosted Me: Am I the Literary Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | January 9, 2025

From Red Dust to Distrust: On the Unhealed Wounds of Nuclear Testing

From Red Dust to Distrust: On the Unhealed Wounds of Nuclear Testing

Emily Yates-Doerr Explores a Family History of Illness, Government Cover-Ups and Institutional Skepticism

By Emily Yates-Doerr | January 9, 2025

Ream Shukairy on Syria After Assad

Ream Shukairy on Syria After Assad

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | January 9, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • House of Day, House of Night
  • The Award
  • Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
  • Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
  • Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
  • The Six Loves of James I

What Will You Save When the Climate Crisis Comes For You?

By Eiren Caffall | January 8, 2025

Arrested for Driving While Black: The Effortless Racism of America's Criminal Justice System

By Irvin Weathersby Jr. | January 8, 2025

From the Wakefield Twins to Claudia Kishi: How We See and Don’t See Ourselves in What We Read

By Gloria L. Huang | January 8, 2025

What Roman Coins Reveal About the People Who Made Them

What Roman Coins Reveal About the People Who Made Them

Gareth Harney on the Hidden Human Stories Behind Ancient Currency

By Gareth Harney | January 8, 2025

It’s Not My Job to Understand Agents or the Marketplace. My Job is to Write.

It’s Not My Job to Understand Agents or the Marketplace. My Job is to Write.

Kevin Maloney on Henry David Thoreau, Kurt Vonnegut, and Rewriting His Life Story Across Multiple Books

By Kevin Maloney | January 8, 2025

Judith Shakespeare, Grinning Literary Ghost: Lauren Groff on the Nuances of <em>A Room of One’s Own</em>

Judith Shakespeare, Grinning Literary Ghost: Lauren Groff on the Nuances of A Room of One’s Own

From a New Introduction to Virginia Woolf's Classic, Oft-Misunderstood Essay

By Lauren Groff | January 7, 2025

Bylines and Big Edits: How a Career in Journalism Taught Elizabeth Harris the Techniques of Fiction

Bylines and Big Edits: How a Career in Journalism Taught Elizabeth Harris the Techniques of Fiction

The Author of "How to Sleep at Night" on Revising, Writerly Advice, and Making People Very Mad

By Elizabeth Harris | January 7, 2025

Adam Ross on Chronicling a Reagan-Era New York City Childhood

Adam Ross on Chronicling a Reagan-Era New York City Childhood

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Playworld”

By Jane Ciabattari | January 7, 2025

The Travails of Maria the Beauty: On the Plight of Indigenous Women in the Brazilian Amazon

The Travails of Maria the Beauty: On the Plight of Indigenous Women in the Brazilian Amazon

Alex Cuadros Explores Patriarchy and Exploitation in a Context of Modern-Day Colonialism

By Alex Cuadros | January 6, 2025

Forest, Forest Burning Bright: On Humans’ Relationship with Trees in an Era of Climate Change

Forest, Forest Burning Bright: On Humans’ Relationship with Trees in an Era of Climate Change

Lauren E. Oakes Examines the Global Disequilibrium We’ve Created

By Lauren E. Oakes | January 6, 2025

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