5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Here is a writer of such intimate and insightful prose that stealing away with him for a few hours in another world feels closer to trespassing than reading.”

By Book Marks | November 13, 2025

Am I the Asshole For Accusing My Friend of Plagiarizing a TV Show?

Am I the Asshole For Accusing My Friend of Plagiarizing a TV Show?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | November 13, 2025

Choosing the Word of the Year is No Easy Feat

Choosing the Word of the Year is No Easy Feat

Stefan Fatsis on the Intense Selection Process that Decides Which Word Will Define Our Year

By Stefan Fatsis | November 13, 2025

A Day of Fragile Hope: On Gaza’s First Moments of Ceasefire

A Day of Fragile Hope: On Gaza’s First Moments of Ceasefire

Hani Qarmoot: ”The ceasefire was more than a political announcement; it was a reclaiming of humanity.”

By Hani Qarmout | November 13, 2025

When Empire Falls: Talking to George Packer About His New Novel, <em>The Emergency</em>

When Empire Falls: Talking to George Packer About His New Novel, The Emergency

In Conversation with Andy Hunter About Apocalypse, Societal Division, and the Future of America

By Andy Hunter | November 13, 2025

Why Film and Literature Fear Telling The Truth About Losing a Parent

Why Film and Literature Fear Telling The Truth About Losing a Parent

Tiffany Graham Charkosky on Finding Healing in Telling Her Own Story of Maternal Loss

By Tiffany Graham Charkosky | November 13, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Switzy
  • Taipei Story
  • Ambivalence: An Education
  • The Pirate Queen
  • The Living Realm
  • Frenchman Flat: The Rise and Fall of Atomic Bombs
  • In the Realm of the Last Man: A Memoir
  • Love Machines: How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Our Relationships
  • The Passing of the Dragon and Other Stories
  • Tower Hill: A Plantation on the Edge of Rebellion

Celebration and Struggle: On the Life and Work of Alice Childress

By Eve Dunbar | November 13, 2025

Kathryn Nuernberger on Mutualism, Climate, and Finding Family at the End of the World

By Fiction Non Fiction | November 13, 2025

The Power of Illusion: Olivia Laing on Creating a Thriller Inspired by 1970s Italian Cinema

By Olivia Laing | November 12, 2025

On David Graeber’s Ideas About the Structural Stupidity of Bureaucracy

On David Graeber’s Ideas About the Structural Stupidity of Bureaucracy

Stuart Jeffries Considers the Everyday Indignity of Modern Life

By Stuart Jeffries | November 12, 2025

On the Early Days of Mikhail Gorbachev’s Rise to Power

On the Early Days of Mikhail Gorbachev’s Rise to Power

The Soviet Union General Secretary’s Anti-Alcohol Campaign, Initial Allies, and Rock-Star Beginnings

By Mikhail Zygar | November 12, 2025

More Than James Brown’s Drummer: Clyde Stubblefield, An Unsung Pioneer of R&B

More Than James Brown’s Drummer: Clyde Stubblefield, An Unsung Pioneer of R&B

John Lingan on the Enduring Influence of One of the Genre's Most Iconic Drum Riffs

By John Lingan | November 12, 2025

Emma Darwin on Writing About Her Family and Finding Inspiration in Artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Emma Darwin on Writing About Her Family and Finding Inspiration in Artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder

“What glowed at me with such potency that I would willingly immerse myself for all the months of writing slog?”

By Emma Darwin | November 12, 2025

The Striking Similarities Between Aphorisms and Poetry

The Striking Similarities Between Aphorisms and Poetry

“Aphorisms and poems are always idiosyncratic, their output an image supercharged with storytelling specificity.”

By James Geary | November 12, 2025

Meet the 2025 National Book Award Finalists

Meet the 2025 National Book Award Finalists

Quick Questions for the Year’s Best Writers, Poets, and Translators

By Emily Temple | November 11, 2025

Olivia Laing on Fictionalizing the Murder of Pier Paulo Pasolini

Olivia Laing on Fictionalizing the Murder of Pier Paulo Pasolini

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of The Silver Book

By Jane Ciabattari | November 11, 2025

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