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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 | June 4, 2021

Resistance and Survival: Portraits of Black and Brown America, c. 2020

Resistance and Survival: Portraits of Black and Brown America, c. 2020

Mitchell S. Jackson on the Photography of Darryl DeAngelo Terrell, for The Longest Year: 2020+

By Mitchell S. Jackson and Darryl DeAngelo Terrell | June 4, 2021

How the Language of Trees is Everywhere Around Us

How the Language of Trees is Everywhere Around Us

Peter Wohllenben on the Way We Talk About Forests

By Peter Wohlleben | June 4, 2021

The Existential Crisis Facing Newspapers Has Silenced Some of America’s Most Distressed Areas

The Existential Crisis Facing Newspapers Has Silenced Some of America’s Most Distressed Areas

Alan Maimon on Covering Eastern Kentucky in an Age of Hyperlocal News and Pageviews

By Alan Maimon | June 4, 2021

The Advantages of Failure: What Thoreau Taught Me About Journal Writing

The Advantages of Failure: What Thoreau Taught Me About Journal Writing

David Gessner on the Transformative Power of a Daily Writing Practice

By David Gessner | June 4, 2021

On Investigating the Origins of COVID-19

On Investigating the Origins of COVID-19

From the Radio Open Source Podcast with Christopher Lydon

By Open Source | June 4, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Things We Never Say
  • John of John
  • Ghost Stories: A Memoir
  • The Hill
  • Look What You Made Me Do
  • Backtalker: An American Memoir
  • Mighty Real: A History of LGBTQ Music, 1969-2000
  • Glyph
  • The Village on the Edge of the World: Writing and Surviving in Ceausescu's Romania
  • Dog Days

Love Letters to Italy: A Reading List

By Deb Caletti | June 4, 2021

Kathy Wang on Using God Mode in Tech... and Novels

By Keen On | June 4, 2021

A Moment of Reckoning: Thomas P. Campbell and András Szántó on Museums and Public Trust

By András Szántó | June 4, 2021

Interview with a Journal: <em>The Sewanee Review</em>

Interview with a Journal: The Sewanee Review

Everything You Need to Know About America’s Oldest Continuously Published Literary Quarterly

By Vanessa Willoughby | June 4, 2021

WATCH: Natasha Brown in Conversation with Meena Kandasamy at the Hay Festival

WATCH: Natasha Brown in Conversation with Meena Kandasamy at the Hay Festival

The Debut Novelist Discusses Her New Book, Assembly

By The Virtual Book Channel | June 4, 2021

Kristen Arnett on Discovering the Shape of a Book

Kristen Arnett on Discovering the Shape of a Book

"It morphs as it builds. It refuses to hold still."

By Kristen Arnett | June 4, 2021

WATCH: Angie Thomas Talks to Jenny Valentine at the Hay Festival

WATCH: Angie Thomas Talks to Jenny Valentine at the Hay Festival

The Author Discusses the Film Adaptation of The Hate U Give and Her New Novel, Concrete Rose

By The Virtual Book Channel | June 4, 2021

Peter Osnos on Becoming a War Correspondent in Vietnam

Peter Osnos on Becoming a War Correspondent in Vietnam

In Conversation with Mitchell Kaplan on The Literary Life Podcast

By The Literary Life | June 4, 2021

Shakespeare in the Park is back, with another all-Black cast.

Shakespeare in the Park is back, with another all-Black cast.

By Dan Sheehan | June 3, 2021

Watch Allen Ginsberg perform the first song he ever wrote, on the roof of his apartment.

Watch Allen Ginsberg perform the first song he ever wrote, on the roof of his apartment.

By Walker Caplan | June 3, 2021

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