5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Academia is a hellscape; ‘Katabasis’ just makes it literal.”

By Book Marks | August 28, 2025

What Would Happen If All the Ice on Earth Suddenly Melted?

What Would Happen If All the Ice on Earth Suddenly Melted?

Peter Brannen on the Melting of Snowball Earth

By Peter Brannen | August 28, 2025

Jennifer Szalai and Alexandra Jacobs on Great American Road Trip Books

Jennifer Szalai and Alexandra Jacobs on Great American Road Trip Books

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 28, 2025

Hero Edit: On Literary Depictions of Reality TV

Hero Edit: On Literary Depictions of Reality TV

Hannah Berman Considers “The Compound,” “Small Game,” and More

By Hannah Berman | August 27, 2025

Amanda Uhle on Using a Childhood Photo as the Cover of Her Book

Amanda Uhle on Using a Childhood Photo as the Cover of Her Book

“All I ever wanted was an accurate portrait of who my parents were.”

By Amanda Uhle | August 27, 2025

How the Oslo Accords Fragmented Palestine and Uprooted a People

How the Oslo Accords Fragmented Palestine and Uprooted a People

Revisiting a Turning Point in the History of Israel’s Occupation

By Literary Hub | August 27, 2025

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  • The Things We Never Say
  • John of John
  • Ghost Stories: A Memoir
  • The Hill
  • Look What You Made Me Do
  • Backtalker: An American Memoir
  • Mighty Real: A History of LGBTQ Music, 1969-2000
  • Glyph
  • The Village on the Edge of the World: Writing and Surviving in Ceausescu's Romania
  • Dog Days

Glory Edim on Jessie Redmon Fauset’s Remarkable—and Forgotten—Plum Bun

By Glory Edim | August 27, 2025

The Enduring Legacy of Eleanor Bumpurs, Murdered by the NYPD For Resisting Eviction

By LaShawn Harris | August 27, 2025

Poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney on Writing Rituals, Maximalism, and How to Surprise an Audience

By Peter Mishler | August 27, 2025

Sahar Mustafah on the ADL’s Quiet Indoctrination of American Schools

Sahar Mustafah on the ADL’s Quiet Indoctrination of American Schools

“It has rigorously weaponized Jewish victimhood in order to foment fear.”

By Sahar Mustafah | August 27, 2025

Shame and English Translation on <em>The Critic and Her Publics</em>

Shame and English Translation on The Critic and Her Publics

a week-long season on translation continues

By The Critic and Her Publics | August 27, 2025

Rana Dasgupta on Giuseppe di Lampedusa's <em>The Leopard</em>

Rana Dasgupta on Giuseppe di Lampedusa's The Leopard

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

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | August 27, 2025

How to Think About the Future, With a Little Help From Science Fiction

How to Think About the Future, With a Little Help From Science Fiction

Nick Foster Explores the Relationship Between Sci-Fi and Our Conception of the Future

By Nick Foster | August 26, 2025

Nature is Not Going to Cure You: On Raynor Winn’s Fabricated Memoir

Nature is Not Going to Cure You: On Raynor Winn’s Fabricated Memoir

Polly Atkin Considers the Danger of Publishers Endorsing Quackery

By Polly Atkin | August 26, 2025

Writing Someone Else’s Autofiction... When They’re a Pop Star Turned Wedding Singer

Writing Someone Else’s Autofiction... When They’re a Pop Star Turned Wedding Singer

On the Unlikely Collaboration Between Novelist David Levithan and Musician Jens Lekman

By Katy Hershberger | August 26, 2025

“Intercom,” a Prose Poem by Richard Siken

“Intercom,” a Prose Poem by Richard Siken

From the Collection “I Do Know Some Things”

By Richard Siken | August 26, 2025

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