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May's Best Reviewed Nonfiction

May's Best Reviewed Nonfiction

Featuring Ron Chernow, Robert Macfarlane, Yiyun Li, and More

By Book Marks | May 30, 2025

The Most Anticipated Audiobooks of June

The Most Anticipated Audiobooks of June

The Month to Come in Literary Listening

By Audiofile Magazine | May 30, 2025

Paul Elie on Art, Faith, and Sex in 1980s America—and the New Pope

Paul Elie on Art, Faith, and Sex in 1980s America—and the New Pope

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 29, 2025

Rebecca Solnit on Her Most Beloved Objects

Rebecca Solnit on Her Most Beloved Objects

A Field Guide to the Artifacts from "A Field Guide to Getting Lost"

By Rebecca Solnit | May 29, 2025

Death, Desire, and the Poetics of the Automobile

Death, Desire, and the Poetics of the Automobile

Rosie Stockton Explores the Tension Between Our Obsession With Freedom and the Constraints of Car-Centric Capitalism

By Rosie Stockton | May 29, 2025

Finding Your Way Into Writing Fiction as J.R.R. Tolkien's Grandson

Finding Your Way Into Writing Fiction as J.R.R. Tolkien's Grandson

Simon Tolkien on the Double-Edged Sword of a Mighty Literary Inheritance

By Simon Tolkien | May 29, 2025

Best Reviewed
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  • Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945
  • Under Water
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  • The Plans I Have for You
  • In Search of Now: The Science of the Present Moment
  • Stephen Sondheim: Art Isn't Easy

The 10 Best Book Covers of May

By Emily Temple | May 29, 2025

My Workshop Friend Stole the Plot for a Story I Never Got Around to Writing: Am I the Asshole?

By Kristen Arnett | May 29, 2025

The Likability Trap: Why We Need More "Nasty" Female Protagonists

By Laura Leffler | May 29, 2025

On Morals, Ethics, and Writing a Novel Inspired by a Story Ripped-From-the-Headlines

On Morals, Ethics, and Writing a Novel Inspired by a Story Ripped-From-the-Headlines

Darrow Farr on Patty Hearst, Exploitation, and Writing Other People's Traumas

By Darrow Farr | May 29, 2025

Nothing is Promised: What Our Current Fragile Peace Reveals About the Forces of History

Nothing is Promised: What Our Current Fragile Peace Reveals About the Forces of History

Askold Melnyczuk Explores the Moral Questions Posed to Us In the Face of War and Violence

By Askold Melnyczuk | May 29, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"I felt like I was developing Stockholm syndrome with this novel."

By Book Marks | May 29, 2025

When the Sequoias Burn: Inside the Making of a California Megafire

When the Sequoias Burn: Inside the Making of a California Megafire

Jordan Thomas on the New Challenges Firefighters Face in an Era of Climate Change

By Jordan Thomas | May 28, 2025

How the Brothers Grimm Became Martyrs to Academic Freedom

How the Brothers Grimm Became Martyrs to Academic Freedom

Maria Hummel on the Contemporary Echoes of a 19th Century Power Struggle Between Professors, Students, and the State

By Maria Hummel | May 28, 2025

Eight Books that Feature Wine in All Its Facets (and Flavor Notes)

Eight Books that Feature Wine in All Its Facets (and Flavor Notes)

Rochelle Dowden-Lord Recommends Peter Hellman, Jilly Cooper, Bianca Bosker, and More

By Rochelle Dowden-Lord | May 28, 2025

How Curtis Sittenfeld's

How Curtis Sittenfeld's "American Wife" Imbues Even Its Ugliest Characters with Nuance

Jessica Stanley on Political Fiction, Conservative Characters, and Curiosity

By Jessica Stanley | May 28, 2025

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