Failing Better: On The Tennis Player and The Writer

Failing Better: On The Tennis Player and The Writer

Thomas Swick Examines the Parallels Between Two Joyous (and Thankless) Vocations

By Thomas Swick | September 5, 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 Rabih Alameddine, Arundhati Roy, Patrick Ryan, and More

By Book Marks | September 5, 2025

Lalla Romano Was Writing Autofiction Before It Existed

Lalla Romano Was Writing Autofiction Before It Existed

On the Late Italian Writer’s Masterpiece, “In Farthest Seas”

By Brian Robert Moore | September 5, 2025

On Not Writing, and Letting Wildness Be Your Guide

On Not Writing, and Letting Wildness Be Your Guide

Leila Chatti Wrestles With the Daily Idea of Being a Writer

By Leila Chatti | September 5, 2025

The (Almost) Wildness of Elizabeth Bennet

The (Almost) Wildness of Elizabeth Bennet

Devoney Looser on the Perennial Appeal of Jane Austen’s Remarkable Heroine

By Devoney Looser | September 4, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“A monument to the vapidity and vulgarity of the culture that incubated it.”

By Book Marks | September 4, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • 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

I Can’t Let Go of a Ten-Year-Old Literary Grudge: Am I the Asshole?

By Kristen Arnett | September 4, 2025

Big Sister Writer, Little Brother Editor: Can They Work Together?

By Literary Hub | September 4, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Kevin Young Is Reading Now, and Next

By Diana Arterian | September 4, 2025

A New Translation of <em>Grave of the Fireflies</em> Commemorates 80 Years Since the End of WWII

A New Translation of Grave of the Fireflies Commemorates 80 Years Since the End of WWII

Ginny Tapley Takemori on the Realities of War and Translating for a New Audience

By Ginny Tapley Takemori | September 4, 2025

On the Literature of Ambitious Women

On the Literature of Ambitious Women

Eliana Ramage Recommends Benedict Nguyễn, V.V. Ganeshananthan, Danzy Senna and More

By Eliana Ramage | September 4, 2025

Patrick Ryan on The Good Heart of <em>Buckeye</em>

Patrick Ryan on The Good Heart of Buckeye

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | September 4, 2025

Emily Wilson Explores The <i>Aeneid </i>’s Influence on the Contemporary Western World

Emily Wilson Explores The Aeneid ’s Influence on the Contemporary Western World

“This ancient epic raises profound, provocative questions that are now more pressing than ever.”

By Emily Wilson | September 3, 2025

“Toni Morrison,” a Prose Poem by Nikki Giovanni

“Toni Morrison,” a Prose Poem by Nikki Giovanni

From the Collection “The New Book”

By Nikki Giovanni | September 3, 2025

Arundhati Roy! Helen Garner! Joan Silber! 20 new books out today.

Arundhati Roy! Helen Garner! Joan Silber! 20 new books out today.

By Julia Hass | September 2, 2025

It’s Okay to Hate <em>The House of Mirth</em>

It’s Okay to Hate The House of Mirth

Carlo Rotella on Reading (and Learning) from Books We Dislike

By Carlo Rotella | September 2, 2025

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