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The Best Reviewed Books<br> of the Month

The Best Reviewed Books
of the Month

Featuring new titles by Joan Didion, Robert Jones Jr., Tove Ditlevsen, George Saunders, and more

By Book Marks | January 29, 2021

‘Why are you making up a story?’ Édouard Louis on the Ghosts at His Writing Table

‘Why are you making up a story?’ Édouard Louis on the Ghosts at His Writing Table

In Conversation with Nadifa Mohamed on How to Proceed

By How to Proceed | January 29, 2021

The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign

The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign

Books to Get You Through the Longest Shortest Month

By Emily Temple | January 29, 2021

Pam Mandel on Discovering the True-to-Life YA Story She Was Meant to Tell: Her Own

Pam Mandel on Discovering the True-to-Life YA Story She Was Meant to Tell: Her Own

In Conversation with Sari Botton on Personal Space

By The Virtual Book Channel | January 29, 2021

Living Through Lockdown Showed Me That Writing Is a Lot Like Digging

Living Through Lockdown Showed Me That Writing Is a Lot Like Digging

Anne Youngson Considers Pandemic Hobbies and the Soothing
Nature of Writing Fiction

By Anne Youngson | January 29, 2021

Ben Hopkins on Conjuring the Power of Gothic Architecture<br> in Fiction

Ben Hopkins on Conjuring the Power of Gothic Architecture
in Fiction

The Author of Cathedral in Conversation With Jane Ciabattari

By Jane Ciabattari | January 29, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man: A Memoir
  • Nonesuch
  • Whidbey
  • A Scandal in Königsberg
  • The Quantity Theory of Morality
  • Partially Devoured: How Night of the Living Dead Saved My Life and Changed the World

Are We Headed Toward an Irreversible Great Depression?

By Keen On | January 29, 2021

Paul Yamazaki on Fifty Years of Bookselling at City Lights

By The Literary Life | January 29, 2021

Barbara Lee on What Shirley Chisholm Gave America

By Rep. Barbara Lee | January 29, 2021

How Writing a Novel Helped Me Uncover the Secrets<br> of My Family

How Writing a Novel Helped Me Uncover the Secrets
of My Family

Liese O'Halloran Schwarz on the Journey to Understand a
Crucial Childhood Memory

By Liese O'Halloran Schwarz | January 29, 2021

Rebecca Roanhorse on Chosen Family, False Destinies, and Institutions That Don't Love You Back

Rebecca Roanhorse on Chosen Family, False Destinies, and Institutions That Don't Love You Back

In Conversation with Rob Wolf on the New Books Network Podcast

By New Books Network | January 29, 2021

Eugenio Ampudia on His ‘Concert for the Biocene’

Eugenio Ampudia on His ‘Concert for the Biocene’

In Conversation with Paul Holdengräber on The Quarantine Tapes

By The Quarantine Tapes | January 29, 2021

Recording <em>A Promised Land</em> with Barack Obama

Recording A Promised Land with Barack Obama

Setting the Stage for a Colossal—and Moving—Audiobook

By Audiofile Magazine | January 29, 2021

<em>The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse</em> by Charlie Mackesy, Read by the Author

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy, Read by the Author

A Meditative and Heartwarming Listen

By Behind the Mic | January 29, 2021

Remembering Christa McAuliffe and the Challenger Disaster

Remembering Christa McAuliffe and the Challenger Disaster

Joyce Maynard on the Day She Spent with the Teacher-Turned-Astronaut

By Joyce Maynard | January 28, 2021

Tracy K. Smith and Kawai Strong Washburn on Biden's Debts to His Base (Especially Black Women)

Tracy K. Smith and Kawai Strong Washburn on Biden's Debts to His Base (Especially Black Women)

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | January 28, 2021

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