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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The author is a professional contrarian, which pretty much means she can bounce off others to naysay whenever so moved.”

By Book Marks | August 14, 2025

Exile, Imprisonment, Aloneness: Emma Sloley on the Dark Allure of Writing About Islands

Exile, Imprisonment, Aloneness: Emma Sloley on the Dark Allure of Writing About Islands

The Author of “The Island of Last Things” Visits Alcatraz and Offers an Antidote to Doomerism

By Emma Sloley | August 14, 2025

A Tour of the Private: Traversing the Physical and Memory Landscape of North America

A Tour of the Private: Traversing the Physical and Memory Landscape of North America

Joanna Pocock Retraces Her Transcontinental Journey and Revisits the Circumstances That Motivated It

By Joanna Pocock | August 14, 2025

“My Legacy is of Broken Men.” Michael Thomas on Dreams, Alcoholism, and Black Fatherhood

“My Legacy is of Broken Men.” Michael Thomas on Dreams, Alcoholism, and Black Fatherhood

The Author of “The Broken King” Unpacks Intimacy and the the Fear of Endangering His Son

By Michael Thomas | August 14, 2025

The Night the Warring Poet Clans of NYC Came Together in Peace

The Night the Warring Poet Clans of NYC Came Together in Peace

Nathan Kernan on James Schuyler’s First Public Poetry Reading

By Nathan Kernan | August 14, 2025

“Blood Moon,” a Prose Poem by Anne Waldman

“Blood Moon,” a Prose Poem by Anne Waldman

From the Collection “Mesopotopia”

By Anne Waldman | August 14, 2025

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  • Whistler
  • Land
  • The Dog's Gaze: A Visual History
  • 1873: The Rothschilds, the First Great Depression, and the Making of the Modern World
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  • The Long Revolution: Creating a United States After 1776

Memoir On a Hill: Finding the Best Way to Tell the Story of America

By Jason Mott | August 14, 2025

Will Bardenwerper on Baseball’s Betrayal of Its Minor League Roots

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 14, 2025

How the AIDS Epidemic Led to the Creation of Sex Ed in America

By Margaret Grace Myers | August 13, 2025

“Literature is a Force For Peace and Solidarity.” On Writing a Novel of the War in Ukraine

“Literature is a Force For Peace and Solidarity.” On Writing a Novel of the War in Ukraine

Sam Wachman Unpacks the Challenges of Sharing Truths in Fiction

By Sam Wachman | August 13, 2025

Anthony Vahni Capildeo on Kimberly Campanello's <em>An Interesting Detail</em>

Anthony Vahni Capildeo on Kimberly Campanello's An Interesting Detail

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

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | August 13, 2025

Ruled by Numbers: How Data Dominates Every Facet of Our Daily Lives

Ruled by Numbers: How Data Dominates Every Facet of Our Daily Lives

Noah Giansiracusa on the Processes That Quantify Our Existence and the Steps We Can Take to Reclaim Our Humanity

By Noah Giansiracusa | August 12, 2025

On “Mocha Dick,” the White Whale of the Pacific that Influenced Herman Melville

On “Mocha Dick,” the White Whale of the Pacific that Influenced Herman Melville

Tim Queeney Explores Ropemaking, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Jeremiah N. Reynolds’s Wild Tale

By Tim Queeney | August 12, 2025

How Small-Town Public Libraries Enrich the Generative Research Process

How Small-Town Public Libraries Enrich the Generative Research Process

Nick Fuller Googins on Embracing Analog Research Methods at the Library

By Nick Fuller Googins | August 12, 2025

Tobias Wolff on Adrienne Salinger’s Iconic <em>Teenagers in Their Bedrooms</em> Thirty Years Later

Tobias Wolff on Adrienne Salinger’s Iconic Teenagers in Their Bedrooms Thirty Years Later

“The humanity of these young faces implies a depth of feeling and experience that their histories confirm.”

By Literary Hub | August 12, 2025

Literary Synchronicities: Jessica Francis Kane on Finding Coincidences While Writing

Literary Synchronicities: Jessica Francis Kane on Finding Coincidences While Writing

The Author of “Fonseca” on Penelope Fitzgerald, Hermione Lee, and Authorial Happenstance

By Jessica Francis Kane | August 12, 2025

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