Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

By Book Marks | August 27, 2021

Browse over one million newly digitized images from Yale's Beinecke Library.

Browse over one million newly digitized images from Yale's Beinecke Library.

By Walker Caplan | August 27, 2021

Can you spot the difference between a Halsey lyric and a line of Instapoetry?

Can you spot the difference between a Halsey lyric and a line of Instapoetry?

By Vanessa Willoughby | August 27, 2021

How the War Made Wittgenstein the Philosopher He Was

How the War Made Wittgenstein the Philosopher He Was

Richard Barnett Reads the Tractatus as Modernist War Poetry

By Richard Barnett | August 27, 2021

Who Gets To Be <em>Bossypants</em>? On Class and Privilege in Female Comedians’ Memoirs

Who Gets To Be Bossypants? On Class and Privilege in Female Comedians’ Memoirs

Sarah Jaffe on Ellie Kemper, Tina Fey, and Tiffany Haddish

By Sarah Jaffe | August 27, 2021

Too Close To Home: Writing a Book That Your Parents Won’t Read

Too Close To Home: Writing a Book That Your Parents Won’t Read

Michelle Jana Chan on the Power of Family to Shape Your Own Narrative

By Michelle Jana Chan | August 27, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • On Morrison
  • Leaving Home: A Memoir in Full Colour
  • So Old, So Young
  • Rebel English Academy
  • A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides
  • Evil Genius

Chronicle of a Death Foretold: On War, Reincarnation, and the Changing Names of Myanmar

By Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint | August 27, 2021

Steven Nadler and Lawrence Shapiro on the Global Epidemic of Irrational Thinking

By Keen On | August 27, 2021

Matt Bell in Praise of Genre Agnosticism

By New Books Network | August 27, 2021

McNally Jackson is publishing gorgeous new paperback editions of overlooked classics.

McNally Jackson is publishing gorgeous new paperback editions of overlooked classics.

By Emily Temple | August 26, 2021

These five books are perfect picks for dog lovers.

These five books are perfect picks for dog lovers.

By Vanessa Willoughby | August 26, 2021

Illustrating the Risks of Winston Smith’s Love Affair

Illustrating the Risks of Winston Smith’s Love Affair

From Fido Nesti's Adaption of George Orwell's Classic 1984

By George Orwell and Frido Nesti | August 26, 2021

Finding Literary Spaces Amid the Intensity of New Motherhood

Finding Literary Spaces Amid the Intensity of New Motherhood

Ellen O’Connell Whittet on Doireann Ní Ghríofa's A Ghost in the Throat

By Ellen O'Connell Whittet | August 26, 2021

George Packer on Redefining

George Packer on Redefining "American" and the Inequalities of the State

This Week from Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady

By Just the Right Book | August 26, 2021

Police Abolition Is About Building Up More Than Tearing Down

Police Abolition Is About Building Up More Than Tearing Down

Geo Maher on Emancipation and Reconstruction, Past and Future

By Geo Maher | August 26, 2021

Deborah Levy: Finding a <del>Room</del> House of One’s Own

Deborah Levy: Finding a Room House of One’s Own

“Yes. I wanted a house. And a garden. I wanted land.”

By Deborah Levy | August 26, 2021

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