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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
“A portrait emerges of an artist with a vision, a distinctive way of seeing the world.”
By
Book Marks
| February 5, 2026
What Seamus Heaney Meant to Me, a Kid From Carrickfergus
Adrian McKinty on the Legacy of One of Ireland’s Great Poets
By
Adrian McKinty
| February 5, 2026
The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction
For the week ending February 1, 2026
By
Literary Hub
| February 5, 2026
The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction
For the week ending February 1, 2026
By
Literary Hub
| February 5, 2026
Anjali Enjeti on Ballots and How Trump Wants to Steal Them
In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and Jennifer Maritza McCauley on Fiction/Non/Fiction
By
Fiction Non Fiction
| February 5, 2026
Office Culture Follows Us Everywhere: Six Books About Work
Daniel Poppick Recommends Kathryn Scanlan, Vivian Gornick, Franz Kafka, and More
By
Daniel Poppick
| February 4, 2026
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
Geoff Dyer on Xiaolu Guo's A CONCISE CHINESE-ENGLISH DICTIONARY FOR LOVERS
By
Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
| February 4, 2026
Toni Morrison on What Flannery O’Connor’s Short Fiction Reveals About Race in America
By
Toni Morrison
| February 3, 2026
Borrowing From the Bard: A Shakespeare-Inspired Reading List
By
Rebecca Fallon
| February 3, 2026
Writing is an Act of Faith, But Publishing is a Practice in Doubt
Reena Shah on Remaining a “Writer in Training”
By
Reena Shah
| February 3, 2026
This Week in Literary History: David Foster Wallace’s
Infinite Jest
Was Published
And the Takes Began
By
Literary Hub
| February 2, 2026
Mars Rainfall, Death Monks, and Frankenstein Summer: February’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books
New books from Matt Dinniman, A.D. Sui, Makana Yamamoto, and more
By
Natalie Zutter
| February 2, 2026
Ten New Children’s Books That Embrace Joy and Celebrate Community
Caroline Carlson Shares What Your Kids Should Read This February
By
Caroline Carlson
| February 2, 2026
An Enduring Source of Inspiration: In Search of Proust’s Legacy in Ireland
Max McGuinness Explores the French Writer’s Influence on Generations of Irish Literature
By
Max McGuinness
| February 2, 2026
Robert Frost, Joni Mitchell, Picasso... 25 books out in paperback this February.
By
Gabrielle Bellot
| February 2, 2026
Requiem for Weimar: On Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz’s
Berlin Shuffle
Philip Boehm Considers the Contemporary Relevance of a Tale of 1920s Germany
By
Philip Boehm
| January 29, 2026
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Jennifer Givhan on Monstrous Mothers, Headless Women, and Writing Symbolic Horror
August 18, 2026
by
Jennifer Givhan
Max Doty on Concepting, Erasure, and Building a House in His New Novel
August 18, 2026
by
Max Doty
Brianna Labuskes on Reckoning and Using Memory as a Tool in Crime Fiction
August 17, 2026
by
Brianna Labuskes
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"Attuned to women s everyday stresses em Fed Up em s chief value lies in…"