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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Ms. Munro has created tales that limn entire lifetimes in a handful of pages.”

By Book Marks | May 16, 2024

We’re Not in Winesburg Anymore: On the Literature of the Small Town

We’re Not in Winesburg Anymore: On the Literature of the Small Town

Carolyn Kuebler Recommends Kathryn Davis, Linda Legarde Grover, Jon McGregor, and More

By Carolyn Kuebler | May 16, 2024

Sisterhood of the Traveling Stories: On the Literature of Fictional Sisters

Sisterhood of the Traveling Stories: On the Literature of Fictional Sisters

Kimberly King Parsons Recommends Ruth Madievsky, Cecily Wong, Vauhini Vara, and More

By Kimberly King Parsons | May 15, 2024

Remembering Alice Munro

Remembering Alice Munro

1931-2024

By Emily Temple | May 14, 2024

Hari Kunzru! Freud! System of a Down (the memoir)! 26 new books out today.

Hari Kunzru! Freud! System of a Down (the memoir)! 26 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | May 14, 2024

Reading Radically: A Reading List of the 1960s and 70s Protest Movements to Understand Activism Today

Reading Radically: A Reading List of the 1960s and 70s Protest Movements to Understand Activism Today

Jessica Shattuck Recommends Cathy Wilkerson, James Kunen, Abe Peck, and More

By Jessica Shattuck | May 13, 2024

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

By Book Marks | May 10, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks | May 9, 2024

The Annotated Nightstand: What Wendy Chen is Reading Now, and Next

By Diana Arterian | May 9, 2024

Colm Tóibín! Jamaica Kincaid plus Kara Walker! Lily Dancyger! 27 new books out today.

Colm Tóibín! Jamaica Kincaid plus Kara Walker! Lily Dancyger! 27 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | May 7, 2024

What Latin American Literature Can Teach the Current Leaders of Latin America

What Latin American Literature Can Teach the Current Leaders of Latin America

Ariel Dorfman Has Some Recommendations for Culturally Illiterate Presidents and Autocrats

By Ariel Dorfman | May 6, 2024

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

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

Featuring New Titles by Rachel Khong, Erik Larson, Karen Valby, and More

By Book Marks | May 3, 2024

Finding a Home in Stories: 10 New Children’s Books to Read in May

Finding a Home in Stories: 10 New Children’s Books to Read in May

Caroline Carlson Recommends Matt Hunt, Julie Flett, Vera Brosgol, and More

By Caroline Carlson | May 2, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Kafka seems both genius and ingenue, and the contradiction brings him closer to us.”

By Book Marks | May 2, 2024

Professors, Priests, Provosts, Manholes, and More: 7 Poetry Books to Read This May

Professors, Priests, Provosts, Manholes, and More: 7 Poetry Books to Read This May

Rebecca Morgan Frank Recommends Catherine Barnett, Jeremy Michael Clark, Ann Jäderlund, and More

By Rebecca Morgan Frank | May 2, 2024

Zombies, Zmora, and Zo Much More: May’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Zombies, Zmora, and Zo Much More: May’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Contemporary Fantasy and Climate Change Futures from Veronica Roth, Peter S. Beagle, Suyi Davies Okungbowa, and More

By Natalie Zutter | May 1, 2024

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