Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

By Book Marks | April 16, 2021

Watch Spalding Gray perform <em>Our Town</em>’s legendary opening monologue.

Watch Spalding Gray perform Our Town’s legendary opening monologue.

By Walker Caplan | April 16, 2021

The first wave of pandemic novels is beginning in earnest, with Gary Shteyngart at the helm.

The first wave of pandemic novels is beginning in earnest, with Gary Shteyngart at the helm.

By Walker Caplan | April 16, 2021

An ode to Paul Bettany's mellifluous, magisterial turn as Chaucer in <em>A Knight's Tale</em>.

An ode to Paul Bettany's mellifluous, magisterial turn as Chaucer in A Knight's Tale.

By Emily Temple | April 16, 2021

How the American Civil War Gave Walt Whitman a Call to Action

How the American Civil War Gave Walt Whitman a Call to Action

Mark Edmundson on the Great American Poet as Defender of Democracy

By Mark Edmundson | April 16, 2021

How Black Queer Readers and Writers Nourish the Future

How Black Queer Readers and Writers Nourish the Future

Alexis Pauline Gumbs on the Power of Ancestral Connections

By Alexis Pauline Gumbs | April 16, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Pelican Child: Stories
  • Languages of Home: Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives 1975-2025
  • On the Calculation of Volume (Book III)
  • The Ferryman and His Wife
  • Empire of Orgasm: Sex, Power, and the Downfall of a Wellness Cult
  • Mexico: A 500-Year History

On the “Girl Stunt Reporters” Who Pioneered a New Genre of Investigative Journalism

By Kim Todd | April 16, 2021

The Challenge of Editing a
Beat Legend

By Garrett Caples | April 16, 2021

On Helping Tell a Palestinian Story as a White American Jew

By Penina Eilberg-Schwartz | April 16, 2021

Searching for Answers to Everest’s Greatest Mystery Among the Artifacts of Its Early Climbers

Searching for Answers to Everest’s Greatest Mystery Among the Artifacts of Its Early Climbers

Mark Synnott on George Mallory, Sandy Irvine, and a Very Flimsy Rope

By Mark Synnott | April 16, 2021

Interview with an Indie Press: Two Dollar Radio

Interview with an Indie Press: Two Dollar Radio

When You Start a Press—and a Family—at the Same Time

By Corinne Segal | April 16, 2021

What Have I Preserved: A Conversation with J. Nicole Jones

What Have I Preserved: A Conversation with J. Nicole Jones

Hilary Leichter Talks with the Author of Low Country

By Hilary Leichter | April 16, 2021

Nichole Perlroth on Our Digital Path to Mutually-Assured Destruction

Nichole Perlroth on Our Digital Path to Mutually-Assured Destruction

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on the Keen On Podcast

By Keen On | April 16, 2021

Watch the stunning new trailer for <em>The Underground Railroad</em>.

Watch the stunning new trailer for The Underground Railroad.

By Vanessa Willoughby | April 15, 2021

In praise of Edward Gorey, style icon.

In praise of Edward Gorey, style icon.

By Walker Caplan | April 15, 2021

Here's the shortlist for the 2021 Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize.

Here's the shortlist for the 2021 Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize.

By Walker Caplan | April 15, 2021

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