• Reading Lists

    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    Featuring James Baldwin, Elaine Hsieh Chou, Arson, and More

     
    By Book Marks  August 22, 2025
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Khadijah Queen Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  August 21, 2025
    New Books Tuesdays

    James Baldwin! Octavia Butler! Deadwood! 20 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  August 19, 2025
    Literary Criticism

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  August 14, 2025
    New Books Tuesdays

    Sex ed! Vintage sapphic tales! Constantine Cavafy! 26 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  August 12, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  August 8, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  August 7, 2025
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Chloe Caldwell Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  August 7, 2025
    Reading Lists

    Doubles, Glitches, Hallucinations, Dreams: Nine Books that Feature David Lynchian Deja Vu

    By Vanessa Roveto  August 6, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    “These and 11 other pieces ventriloquize a chorus of white American grotesques across the sociopolitical spectrum.”

    By Book Marks  August 21, 2025
    Queerness

    A Cosmic Bond: Five Essential Books on Queer Black Friendship

    By m. mick powell  August 5, 2025
    New Books Tuesdays

    Jamaica Kincaid! The invention of a Brontë! Bruce Springsteen! 27 new books out today!

    By Gabrielle Bellot  August 5, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  August 1, 2025
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Robot Ghost Kitchens and Memory Capitalism: August’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

    New Summer Reads from Annalee Newitz, Louis Sachar, Charlie Jane Anders, and More

    By Natalie Zutter  August 1, 2025
    Children's Literature

    Taco Knights, A Mexican Romeo and Juliet, Goats: Ten Children’s Books to Read in August

    By Caroline Carlson  August 1, 2025
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Amy Silverberg Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  August 1, 2025
    New Poetry

    Unimprovable Penis-Forward Poems and More! Seven Poetry Books to Read This August

    By Christopher Spaide  August 1, 2025
    Travel

    Books to drive the groupchat wild. (Summer edition!)

    By Brittany Allen  July 31, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    July’s Best Reviewed Fiction

    By Dan Sheehan  July 31, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    July’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

    By Book Marks  July 31, 2025
    Audiobooks

    The Most Anticipated Audiobooks of August

    By AudioFile Magazine  July 31, 2025
    Literary Criticism

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    “If Vivian Gornick wrote fiction, it might look something like this.”

    By Book Marks  July 30, 2025
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Daniel Saldaña Paris is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  July 30, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  July 25, 2025
    Philosophy

    God-Tier Books: A Personal Library of Holy Scripture

    By Jon Raymond  August 5, 2025
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