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 new titles by Fernanda Melchor, Mick Herron, Nghi Vo, Francis Fukuyama, and more

By Book Marks | May 13, 2022

Erica Ruth Neubauer on Mysteries, Her Many Careers, and the Google Search That Started Her Novel

Erica Ruth Neubauer on Mysteries, Her Many Careers, and the Google Search That Started Her Novel

In Conversation with C. P. Lesley on the New Books Network

By New Books Network | May 13, 2022

Five Writers Weigh in on the Weird Shame of Publishing a Book

Five Writers Weigh in on the Weird Shame of Publishing a Book

Jennifer Huang Talks to Kemi Alabi, Liz Asch, Sejal Shah, Alina Stefanescu, and Stephen J. West

By Jennifer Huang | May 12, 2022

Lan Samantha Chang on Food, Family, and New Ways of Imagining Asian American Narratives

Lan Samantha Chang on Food, Family, and New Ways of Imagining Asian American Narratives

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 12, 2022

Michelle Hart on Why You Shouldn’t Ignore Shame in Storytelling

Michelle Hart on Why You Shouldn’t Ignore Shame in Storytelling

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | May 12, 2022

“Yoknapatawpha on the Hudson”? On the Novelistic Universe of Edith Wharton

“Yoknapatawpha on the Hudson”? On the Novelistic Universe of Edith Wharton

Krithika Varagur Rereads The Old Maid

By Krithika Varagur | May 12, 2022

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Country People
  • You Won't Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters
  • Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991
  • The Great Wherever
  • A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies
  • The Simp: A Novel Without a Hero

The Art of the Hand-Sell: It’s Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month!

By Katie Yee | May 12, 2022

The Russian War on Ukraine Has Always Been a War on Its Language

By Askold Melnyczuk | May 11, 2022

When Iris Murdoch Met Jean-Paul Sartre

By Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman | May 11, 2022

Brad Listi on Resisting the Siren Call of the Static

Brad Listi on Resisting the Siren Call of the Static

In Conversation with Steve Almond on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | May 11, 2022

Writing Toward a Poetics of Aging

Writing Toward a Poetics of Aging

Shoshana Olidort on Erika Meitner's Useful Junk

By Shoshana Olidort | May 11, 2022

Donna Barba Higuera on Following the Storytelling Traditions of Her Family

Donna Barba Higuera on Following the Storytelling Traditions of Her Family

This Week on the NewberyTart Podcast

By NewberyTart | May 11, 2022

“To Learn From the Natural World.” On Ada Limón’s Brilliant Poetic Project

“To Learn From the Natural World.” On Ada Limón’s Brilliant Poetic Project

Sara Franklin Talks to the Author of The Hurting Kind

By Sara B. Franklin | May 10, 2022

Jennifer Weiner: How Plus-Size Women Finally—Finally!—Landed on Book Covers

Jennifer Weiner: How Plus-Size Women Finally—Finally!—Landed on Book Covers

“I could have cried with the joy of it.”

By Jennifer Weiner | May 10, 2022

Carlo Rovelli on How Literary Greats Find Inspiration in Scientific Rationality

Carlo Rovelli on How Literary Greats Find Inspiration in Scientific Rationality

Considering the Intersections of Literature and Science

By Carlo Rovelli | May 10, 2022

Bud Smith on the Quintessential “Road Trip” Novel

Bud Smith on the Quintessential “Road Trip” Novel

The Author of Teenager Recommends Tove Jansson, Tim O'Brien, and More

By Bud Smith | May 10, 2022

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