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Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

By Book Marks | August 6, 2021

Stephen King might be writing a novel about the coronavirus.

Stephen King might be writing a novel about the coronavirus.

By Walker Caplan | August 6, 2021

A new documentary about Truman Capote's final novel promises unseen interviews and lots of tea.

A new documentary about Truman Capote's final novel promises unseen interviews and lots of tea.

By Emily Temple | August 6, 2021

On Loss, Time, and Hope: My Year of Reading Ali Smith’s <em>Seasonal Quartet</em>

On Loss, Time, and Hope: My Year of Reading Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet

Sara Batkie Reflects on the Past Year of COVID-19

By Sara Batkie | August 6, 2021

On the 26-Year Search for a Photo <br>of My Father

On the 26-Year Search for a Photo
of My Father

Anna Qu Grieves a Life She Never Knew

By Anna Qu | August 6, 2021

Cree Turned City Slicker: Returning to One’s Indigenous Heritage

Cree Turned City Slicker: Returning to One’s Indigenous Heritage

Darrel J. McLeod on Teaching at a School in Yekooche

By Darrel J. McLeod | August 6, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Awake Awake
  • Etna
  • Triage
  • The Amateur
  • The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn
  • The Story of Your Life: How Social Media Shapes the Way We Experience Everything
  • The Cruelest Game: Chasing Greatness in Professional Tennis
  • The Ego Trip: Psychedelic Toads, a Trail of Deaths, and the Guru Who Peddled Transcendence
  • The Blue Flame

Indie Booksellers Recommend: The Best of Independent Presses This August

By Literary Hub | August 6, 2021

We Should All Be Playing in the Dirt More... According to Science!

By Lucy Jones | August 6, 2021

7 Music Novels to Shape Your Summer Soundtrack

By Allison Larkin | August 6, 2021

How a Ride-Sharing Collective Aims to Combat the Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

How a Ride-Sharing Collective Aims to Combat the Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

Marcello Di Cintio on the Kindness and Communal Solidarity of Ikwe Safe Rides

By Marcello Di Cintio | August 6, 2021

Larissa Pham on Allowing Memory to Shape a Memoir

Larissa Pham on Allowing Memory to Shape a Memoir

"I don’t believe life is narrative."

By Larissa Pham | August 6, 2021

Joe Keohane on the Case for Talking to Strangers

Joe Keohane on the Case for Talking to Strangers

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 6, 2021

Catherine Raven: Why We’re More Like Animals Than We Think

Catherine Raven: Why We’re More Like Animals Than We Think

In Conversation with Mitchell Kaplan on The Literary Life Podcast

By The Literary Life | August 6, 2021

Post45 will publish a cluster of writing on David Berman in early 2022.

Post45 will publish a cluster of writing on David Berman in early 2022.

By Walker Caplan | August 5, 2021

Laurence Fishburne is bringing Colson Whitehead's <em>Sag Harbor</em> to TV.

Laurence Fishburne is bringing Colson Whitehead's Sag Harbor to TV.

By Dan Sheehan | August 5, 2021

Get away from it all in this Brazilian outdoor “book house.

Get away from it all in this Brazilian outdoor “book house."

By Walker Caplan | August 5, 2021

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