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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 Saba Sams, Jazmine Ulloa, Jordy Rosenberg, and more

By Book Marks | March 6, 2026

No Stars, or: Are We Reviewing Ourselves to Death?

No Stars, or: Are We Reviewing Ourselves to Death?

Lucie Britsch on the Importance of Making Art for Art’s Sake

By Lucie Britsch | March 6, 2026

Jayson Greene on Uncanny Grief and Uncanny Novels

Jayson Greene on Uncanny Grief and Uncanny Novels

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds

By Thresholds | March 6, 2026

On Shirley Jackson’s <em>The Haunting of Hill House</em> Though the Lens of Childrearing

On Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House Though the Lens of Childrearing

Lesley Jenike Considers What Motherhood Can Reveal About the Self

By Lesley Jenike | March 5, 2026

What We Lose When We Gamify Reading

What We Lose When We Gamify Reading

Marissa Levien Makes the Case for Slowing Down

By Marissa Levien | March 5, 2026

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The beauty and breadth of the landscape stand in counterpoint to the horrors of the human lives playing out upon it.”

By Book Marks | March 5, 2026

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

By Literary Hub | March 5, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

By Literary Hub | March 5, 2026

James Sullivan on the Power of Protest Music

By Fiction Non Fiction | March 5, 2026

What I Learned About American Men in My All-Male Book Club

What I Learned About American Men in My All-Male Book Club

Kristopher Jansma on Why More Male Readers Should Start Book Clubs

By Kristopher Jansma | March 4, 2026

Ghost Writing: On AI Before AI

Ghost Writing: On AI Before AI

Emily Hodgson Anderson Considers Our Notions of Intellectual Property and Creative Collaboration

By Emily Hodgson Anderson | March 4, 2026

Gisèle Pelicot’s Memoir is the Ultimate Act of Defiance

Gisèle Pelicot’s Memoir is the Ultimate Act of Defiance

Noëlle de Leeuw on A Hymn to Life as a Call to Social Change

By Noëlle de Leeuw | March 4, 2026

On Proust's Wasted Time

On Proust's Wasted Time

The Cosmic Library continues its Proust season

By The Cosmic Library | March 4, 2026

A Woman in the World: Colm Tóibín on the Short Fiction of Mary Lavin

A Woman in the World: Colm Tóibín on the Short Fiction of Mary Lavin

“She had spent her life describing others and finding strategies to create versions of herself on the page; it was not easy to categorize her.”

By Colm Tóibín | March 3, 2026

Reading the Stars: On Iconic Actors in the Age of Generative AI

Reading the Stars: On Iconic Actors in the Age of Generative AI

Jadie Stillwell Reads Melissa Anderson’s The Hunger

By Jadie Stillwell | March 3, 2026

The Weight of the Self: On James Merrill’s <em>A Different Person</em>

The Weight of the Self: On James Merrill’s A Different Person

Hilton Als Considers the Influence of Class and Queerness in the Life and Work of a Gay American Poet

By Hilton Als | March 3, 2026

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