What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring Jason Mott, Åsne Seierstad, Elaine Castillo, and More

By Book Marks | August 8, 2025

How Would Jane Austen Define an “Accomplished Woman” Today?

How Would Jane Austen Define an “Accomplished Woman” Today?

Grace Aldridge on Rereading Jane Austen After the End of Her Marriage 

By Grace Aldridge | August 8, 2025

A Fantastical Odyssey Through Renaissance Italy: Álvaro Enrigue on <em>Bomarzo</em>

A Fantastical Odyssey Through Renaissance Italy: Álvaro Enrigue on Bomarzo

“Mujica Lainez’s Duke of Bomarzo is a lantern that illuminates... our tenebrous but also brilliant little lives.”

By Álvaro Enrigue | August 8, 2025

The Case for Renaming Kafka’s <em>Metamorphosis</em> as <em>The Transformation</em>

The Case for Renaming Kafka’s Metamorphosis as The Transformation

Mark Harman Digs into the History and Linguistic Choices of Translating an Uncanny Classic

By Mark Harman | August 8, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Dystopian novels are not merely the expression of vivid imaginations, they are often warnings about what’s to come.”

By Book Marks | August 7, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Chloe Caldwell Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Chloe Caldwell Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Sheila Heti, Yiyun Li, Hala Alyan, and Others

By Diana Arterian | August 7, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Departure(s)
  • The Flower Bearers
  • Eating Ashes
  • Every One Still Here: Stories
  • Once There Was a Town: The Memory Books of a Lost Jewish World
  • The Typewriter and the Guillotine: An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve of WWII

Barbara Kingsolver on Supporting Appalachian Women Recovering from Addiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 7, 2025

Doubles, Glitches, Hallucinations, Dreams: Nine Books that Feature David Lynchian Deja Vu

By Vanessa Roveto | August 6, 2025

Why Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland—a Disappointment When It Was Published—is the Novel We Need Right Now

By Devin Thomas O’Shea | August 5, 2025

God-Tier Books: A Personal Library of Holy Scripture

God-Tier Books: A Personal Library of Holy Scripture

Jon Raymond Recommends Don DeLillo, Denis Johnson, Theodor Adorno and More

By Jon Raymond | August 5, 2025

A Cosmic Bond: Five Essential Books on Queer Black Friendship

A Cosmic Bond: Five Essential Books on Queer Black Friendship

m. mick powell Recommends Toni Morrison, Brittany Rogers, Danez Smith and More

By m. mick powell | August 5, 2025

Jamaica Kincaid! The invention of a Brontë! Bruce Springsteen! 27 new books out today!

Jamaica Kincaid! The invention of a Brontë! Bruce Springsteen! 27 new books out today!

By Gabrielle Bellot | August 5, 2025

What We Can Give Each Other: On Octavia Butler’s “Speech Sounds”

What We Can Give Each Other: On Octavia Butler’s “Speech Sounds”

Aaron Boehmer Considers the Hope in Human Connection

By Aaron Boehmer | August 4, 2025

What Jane Austen’s Possessions Reveal About Her Literary Ethos

What Jane Austen’s Possessions Reveal About Her Literary Ethos

Kathryn Sutherland Explores the Iconic Author’s Life and Work Through the Most Seemingly Mundane Objects

By Kathryn Sutherland | August 4, 2025

A Happy One-Trick Multi-Book Pony: On Writing Novels About Art History

A Happy One-Trick Multi-Book Pony: On Writing Novels About Art History

B.A. Shapiro Follows Her Literary Footsteps Through Storied Museums

By B.A. Shapiro | August 4, 2025

How Witi Ihimaera’s <em>The Whale Rider</em> Helped Introduce Maori Literature to the World

How Witi Ihimaera’s The Whale Rider Helped Introduce Maori Literature to the World

Shilo Kino on the Novel That Represented and Reconnected New Zealand’s Indigenous People

By Shilo Kino | August 4, 2025

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