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

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

One great short story to read today: Breece D’J Pancake’s “Time and Again”

One great short story to read today: Breece D’J Pancake’s “Time and Again”

By Jonny Diamond | May 27, 2025

Spring Ulmer on Political Poetry, Personification, and Translating as Gardening

Spring Ulmer on Political Poetry, Personification, and Translating as Gardening

The Author of "Phantom Number: An Abecedarium for April" in Conversation with Poets.org

By Literary Hub | May 27, 2025

The Secret Link Between Raymond Chandler and P.G. Wodehouse

The Secret Link Between Raymond Chandler and P.G. Wodehouse

Arvind Ethan David on the Surprising Connection Between Two Legendary Authors

By Arvind Ethan David | May 23, 2025

Best Reviewed
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  • Joyride: A Memoir
  • A Guardian and a Thief
  • Minor Black Figures
  • True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen
  • The Wayfinder
  • Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat To) the Modern Dictionary

What You See Is What You Get: The Optical Illusions That Shape Fiction—and Ourselves

By T.J. Martinson | May 23, 2025

Nonfiction Against the End of the World: An Apocalypse Reading List

By Martha Park | May 23, 2025

Gorilla Under the Bed: Desire and Death in James Tiptree Jr.’s Her Smoke Rose Up Forever

By Elizabeth Costello | May 23, 2025

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 Yiyun Li, Alison Bechdel, Robert Macfarlane, and More

By Book Marks | May 23, 2025

Julia Elliott on Small-Town Voters and Trump’s Tariff Trap

Julia Elliott on Small-Town Voters and Trump’s Tariff Trap

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 22, 2025

Hari Kunzru Reflects on Edward Said's <em>Culture and Imperialism</em> Thirty Years After Publication

Hari Kunzru Reflects on Edward Said's Culture and Imperialism Thirty Years After Publication

“For every narrative there are counternarratives, and meaningful interpretations of culture arise out of an analysis of tensions and contradictions”

By Hari Kunzru | May 22, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"A study of limbo and stasis that nonetheless speaks of great movement and change."

By Book Marks | May 22, 2025

You See? Generative AI is Bad At Doing My Job

You See? Generative AI is Bad At Doing My Job

Maris Kreizman on the AI Hallucinations That Made it to the Book Review Section

By Maris Kreizman | May 22, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Alison Bechdel Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Alison Bechdel Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Sarah Schulman, Urvashi Vaid, Joan Didion, and Others

By Diana Arterian | May 22, 2025

Should I Stay or Should I Go? Five Novels Involving Destructive Relationships

Should I Stay or Should I Go? Five Novels Involving Destructive Relationships

Meg Serino Recommends Elif Batuman, Julie Buntin, Emma Cline and More

By Meg Serino | May 21, 2025

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