The Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies, September Edition

The Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies, September Edition

The lives of Stephen Hawking, Toussaint Louverture, Adolf Hitler, and more

By Book Marks | September 29, 2020

Navigating Literary Censorship—and Worse—in Iran

Navigating Literary Censorship—and Worse—in Iran

Amir Ahmadi Arian on Creative Freedom and Sitting at the "Gate of Law"

By Amir Ahmadi Arian | September 28, 2020

Whoever Said Platonic Love Can't Be Sexy? (Hint: Not Plato)

Whoever Said Platonic Love Can't Be Sexy? (Hint: Not Plato)

Michele Morano on the Geometry of the Love Triangle

By Michele Morano | September 28, 2020

The Book That Changed My Life: Giving Voice to the Divine, Inexplicable Ocean

The Book That Changed My Life: Giving Voice to the Divine, Inexplicable Ocean

Jock Serong on the Writing of the Reclusive James Hamilton Paterson

By Jock Serong | September 24, 2020

Snapshots Before the War: Saying Goodbye in 1944

Snapshots Before the War: Saying Goodbye in 1944

Paul Hendrickson on the Day His Father Shipped Off to Japan

By Paul Hendrickson | September 23, 2020

Wayétu Moore on Using Storytelling to Find the Good Amid the Grim

Wayétu Moore on Using Storytelling to Find the Good Amid the Grim

From the Thresholds Podcast, Hosted by Jordan Kisner

By Thresholds | September 23, 2020

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Big Kiss, Bye-Bye
  • Bad Bad Girl
  • The Ten Year Affair
  • Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
  • Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
  • Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution

The Fault Lines of Midwestern
Racism Run Deep

By Amaud Jamaul Johnson | September 22, 2020

Life, Love, and Beowulf in the Deep South's Most Literary Small Town

By Lawrence Wells | September 22, 2020

Writing a History of a Pandemic During a Pandemic

By Jon Sternfeld | September 22, 2020

Indifference and Cruelty: What Made Nazi Germany Possible

Indifference and Cruelty: What Made Nazi Germany Possible

Géraldine Schwarz Reckons With Her Family's WWII History

By Géraldine Schwarz | September 21, 2020

Susan Burton on Saying the Thing She Was Most<br> Scared to Say

Susan Burton on Saying the Thing She Was Most
Scared to Say

From the Bookable Podcast with Author Amanda Stern

By Bookable | September 21, 2020

Character-Building: On Past Traumas and a Future for the Stage

Character-Building: On Past Traumas and a Future for the Stage

Dan O'Brien Knows That Every Family is Unhappy in Its Own Way

By Dan O'Brien | September 18, 2020

On Land Ethics and One of the Last Heaths in Northern Europe

On Land Ethics and One of the Last Heaths in Northern Europe

Why Robert Michael Pyle Is Haunted by a Field of Heather

By Robert Michael Pyle | September 18, 2020

Erica Barnett on the Books That Helped Her in Recovery

Erica Barnett on the Books That Helped Her in Recovery

Lessons on Addiction from Five Writers

By Erica Barnett | September 17, 2020

Morgan Jerkins: Who Gets Displaced for the Sake of Tourism?

Morgan Jerkins: Who Gets Displaced for the Sake of Tourism?

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | September 17, 2020

The Joy of Editing—and Knowing—Randall Kenan

The Joy of Editing—and Knowing—Randall Kenan

Alane Mason Remembers a Brilliant Enigma

By Alane Salierno Mason | September 16, 2020

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