5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

On New Books by Douglas Stuart, Jenny Tinghui Zhang, Jennifer Egan, and More

By Book Marks | April 7, 2022

Scottish university cruelly cancels poor, defenseless, under-read Jane Austen. England panics.

Scottish university cruelly cancels poor, defenseless, under-read Jane Austen. England panics.

By Jonny Diamond | April 6, 2022

Toward an Alternative Canon of Trauma Literature: A Reading List

Toward an Alternative Canon of Trauma Literature: A Reading List

Chantal V. Johnson Recommends Books That Move Beyond the Trauma Plot

By Chantal V. Johnson | April 6, 2022

How Shirley Hughes Captured the Everyday Magic of Childhood

How Shirley Hughes Captured the Everyday Magic of Childhood

Ellen O'Connell Whittet on the Beloved Children's Author

By Ellen O'Connell Whittet | April 6, 2022

Welcome to Season 3 of <em>The Cosmic Library</em>

Welcome to Season 3 of The Cosmic Library

Join Us For a Journey Through and Beyond the Hebrew Bible

By The Cosmic Library | April 6, 2022

How Writers Can Best Conceptualize Their Work

How Writers Can Best Conceptualize Their Work

Graeme Simsion on the Key to Developing Engaging Ideas

By Graeme Simsion | April 6, 2022

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

Morgan Jerkins on Leo Tolstoy, Pachinko, and the sex scene in Sula

By Book Marks | April 6, 2022

16 hotly-anticipated new books coming out this week.

By Katie Yee | April 5, 2022

What Can We Learn From the “Life” of the Little Prince?

By Stéphane Garnier | April 5, 2022

Kaitlyn Greenidge on Toni Morrison, Karen Tei Yamashita, Melissa Broder, and More

Kaitlyn Greenidge on Toni Morrison, Karen Tei Yamashita, Melissa Broder, and More

Rapid-fire Book Recs from the Author of Libertie

By Book Marks | April 5, 2022

Defying Classification: An Introduction to Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction

Defying Classification: An Introduction to Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction

Victor Fernando R. Ocampo Recommends the Best of a Growing Genre

By Victor Fernando R. Ocampo | April 4, 2022

The 1990s: A Surreal (and Sociopathic?) Era in America

The 1990s: A Surreal (and Sociopathic?) Era in America

Candice Wuehle on Books That Remember (and Resist) a Weird Moment in This Country

By Candice Wuehle | April 4, 2022

Douglas Stuart on Masculinity and the Long Literary Tradition of the Gang Novel

Douglas Stuart on Masculinity and the Long Literary Tradition of the Gang Novel

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | April 4, 2022

Announcing the Winners of the 2022 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction

Announcing the Winners of the 2022 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction

Read Winning Stories by Olga Tokarczuk, Daniel Mason, and Alejandro Zambra

By Literary Hub | April 4, 2022

What Literary Techniques Did Sigmund Freud Employ?

What Literary Techniques Did Sigmund Freud Employ?

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | April 4, 2022

Patti Callahan on Graham Greene, Mary Kay Andrews, and <em>Women Who Run With Wolves</em>

Patti Callahan on Graham Greene, Mary Kay Andrews, and Women Who Run With Wolves

Rapid-fire Book Recs from the Author of Surviving Savannah

By Book Marks | April 4, 2022

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