5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"Tapping into the sticky stuff of humanity, each story is a gift"

By Book Marks | August 3, 2023

How Exile Allowed Shastri Akella to Write a Queer Novel

How Exile Allowed Shastri Akella to Write a Queer Novel

On Queerness in the Mahabharata and Hiking the Himalayas for Inspiration

By Shastri Akella | July 31, 2023

Pankaj Mishra on the Eternal Present of Amit Chaudhuri's <em>The Immortals</em>

Pankaj Mishra on the Eternal Present of Amit Chaudhuri's The Immortals

"The novel instead seems to be seeking the unknown, a strange experience of fascination beyond language and representation."

By Pankaj Mishra | July 31, 2023

The Booker Revisited: Caroline Blackwood's Darkly Humorous <em>Great Granny Webster</em>

The Booker Revisited: Caroline Blackwood's Darkly Humorous Great Granny Webster

Lucy Scholes Considers Another Contender of Years Past

By Lucy Scholes | July 31, 2023

The History of Literature Puts Langston Hughes in Context

The History of Literature Puts Langston Hughes in Context

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | July 31, 2023

July's Best Reviewed Fiction

July's Best Reviewed Fiction

Featuring New Titles by Colson Whitehead, Patrick deWitt, Silvia Moreno-Garcia and More

By Book Marks | July 28, 2023

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man: A Memoir
  • Nonesuch
  • Whidbey
  • A Scandal in Königsberg
  • The Quantity Theory of Morality
  • Partially Devoured: How Night of the Living Dead Saved My Life and Changed the World

July's Best Reviewed Nonfiction

By Book Marks | July 28, 2023

How My Library Patrons Unexpectedly Helped Me Finish My Novel

By Laura Sims | July 27, 2023

Robin Sloan on Social Media After Twitter

By Fiction Non Fiction | July 27, 2023

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"I went through this, she says, so maybe you won’t have to.”

By Book Marks | July 27, 2023

Donovan X. Ramsey on How Media Sensationalized Crack

Donovan X. Ramsey on How Media Sensationalized Crack

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | July 27, 2023

Weird, funny, dark children's books that I can recommend (as an adult, however).

Weird, funny, dark children's books that I can recommend (as an adult, however).

By Janet Manley | July 26, 2023

The New Sex Writing: In Praise of the

The New Sex Writing: In Praise of the "Idiotic Erotic"

Tamara Faith Berger on Letting the Sluts Speak

By Tamara Faith Berger | July 26, 2023

A Queer Reimagining of James Joyce's <em>Ulysses</em> in Northern England

A Queer Reimagining of James Joyce's Ulysses in Northern England

Helen Palmer on Why She Chose 1990s Blackpool for the Setting of Pleasure Beach

By Helen Palmer | July 26, 2023

Jonathan Galassi Remembers His Friend, the Great Robert Gottlieb

Jonathan Galassi Remembers His Friend, the Great Robert Gottlieb

“The last and arguably the most successful of the editor-publishers.”

By Jonathan Galassi | July 25, 2023

Terrance Hayes Remembers Lucie Brock-Broido and Her Immortal Poetic Cats

Terrance Hayes Remembers Lucie Brock-Broido and Her Immortal Poetic Cats

“Cats purred seeking the contours of her language between their ears.”

By Terrance Hayes | July 25, 2023

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