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 Karen Russell, Helen Garner, Torrey Peters, and More

By Book Marks | March 14, 2025

A Small Press Book We Love: </br><em>Pipe Dreams on Pico</em> by Brent L. Smith

A Small Press Book We Love:
Pipe Dreams on Pico by Brent L. Smith

By James Folta | March 13, 2025

What Nathaniel Hawthorne Has To Say to Silicon Valley About Techno-Optimism

What Nathaniel Hawthorne Has To Say to Silicon Valley About Techno-Optimism

Lisa Catherine Harper on the Painfully Enduring Lessons of a Celebrated 19th-Century American Writer

By Lisa Catherine Harper | March 13, 2025

Truth, Power, Art: A Critical Manifesto on Creative Nonfiction

Truth, Power, Art: A Critical Manifesto on Creative Nonfiction

Lauren Markham and Chris Feliciano Arnold on the Urgency Writing Truth to Power

By Lauren Markham and Chris Feliciano Arnold | March 13, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“A great Torrey Peters story feels like punching yourself in the face.”

By Book Marks | March 13, 2025

How Shirley Jackson Exposed the Darker, Uncanny Side of Everyday Life

How Shirley Jackson Exposed the Darker, Uncanny Side of Everyday Life

Ruth Franklin on the Moody, Beguiling Stories of an American Icon of Speculative Fiction

By Ruth Franklin | March 13, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Things We Never Say
  • John of John
  • Ghost Stories: A Memoir
  • Look What You Made Me Do
  • Backtalker: An American Memoir
  • Glorious Country: How the Artist Frederic Church Brought the World to America and America to the World

The Annotated Nightstand: What Mónica de la Torre Is Reading Now, and Next

By Diana Arterian | March 13, 2025

Curtis Sittenfeld on Show Don’t Tell

By Fiction Non Fiction | March 13, 2025

A Small Press Book We Love:
The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante

By Emily Firetog | March 12, 2025

What Kafka’s Hypochondria Reveals About His Literary and Personal Life

What Kafka’s Hypochondria Reveals About His Literary and Personal Life

Will Rees on the Shared Characteristics Between Health Anxiety and the Writer’s Calling

By Will Rees | March 12, 2025

Karen Russell on What Natural Disasters Can Reveal About the Human Condition

Karen Russell on What Natural Disasters Can Reveal About the Human Condition

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “The Antidote”

By Jane Ciabattari | March 12, 2025

5 Essential Books For Better Understanding African Folklore

5 Essential Books For Better Understanding African Folklore

Helen Nde Recommends Isidore Okpewho, Ruth Finnegan, Ibrahim Al-Koni, and More

By Helen Nde | March 12, 2025

Helen Garner on Henry Green's <em>Party Going</em>

Helen Garner on Henry Green's Party Going

In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | March 12, 2025

Carvell Wallace on Changing Perspective

Carvell Wallace on Changing Perspective

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds

By Thresholds | March 12, 2025

A Small Press Book We Love: </br><em>That We May Live: Speculative Chinese Fiction</em>

A Small Press Book We Love:
That We May Live: Speculative Chinese Fiction

By Drew Broussard | March 11, 2025

The Best Villains in Literature Bracket: The Not-So-Sweet 16

The Best Villains in Literature Bracket: The Not-So-Sweet 16

Round Three!

By Literary Hub | March 11, 2025

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