5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“I’ve seen sex written about with passion and dispassion, but seldom in the same book, and never in the same sentence.”

By Book Marks | January 30, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Pádraig Ó Tuama is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Pádraig Ó Tuama is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Margaret Atwood, Feargal Ó Béarra, Vona Groarke, and Others

By Diana Arterian | January 30, 2025

25 books out in paperback this February!

25 books out in paperback this February!

By Gabrielle Bellot | January 30, 2025

Neko Case! Imani Perry! Rachel Carson’s Queer Life! 27 new books out today.

Neko Case! Imani Perry! Rachel Carson’s Queer Life! 27 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | January 28, 2025

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 Han Kang, American Orphanhood, Mavis Gallant, and More

By Book Marks | January 24, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“In place of clear conclusions are persistent themes, like recurring notes in a song.”

By Book Marks | January 23, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Sleuth-Hound: The Case of the Real Sherlock Holmes
  • Emperor of Nothing: The Making of Larry David
  • I Can't Stop Thinking about Horses and Sex
  • Queen of Lombard Street
  • Paradise Burns
  • Doppelgänger
  • Hanging and Burning: A King Oliver Novel
  • Our Arab: On Longing, Belonging, and Hope
  • The Turning of Sally-Mae

We Only Have Ourselves: The How-Tos and DOs and DON’Ts of Mutual Aid

By Kim Kelly | January 21, 2025

Joni Mitchell! Han Kang! Belle & Sebastian! 22 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | January 21, 2025

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

By Book Marks | January 17, 2025

Finding the Wild Girls of Literature (and Following Them Into the Woods)

Finding the Wild Girls of Literature (and Following Them Into the Woods)

Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum Recommends Sarah Moss, Jamaica Kincaid, Carson McCullers and Others

By Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum | January 17, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“It reads like the unfinished, damaged novel that it is.”

By Book Marks | January 16, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Aria Aber Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Aria Aber Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Han Kang, Isabella Hammad, Alice Notley, and Others

By Diana Arterian | January 16, 2025

Pico Iyer! Helen of Troy in the '90s! An African history of Africa! 27 new books out today.

Pico Iyer! Helen of Troy in the '90s! An African history of Africa! 27 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | January 14, 2025

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 Adam Haslett, Spotify, Karissa Chen, and More

By Book Marks | January 10, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The narrator’s voice is an extraordinary hybrid of a boy’s plaintive innocence and a man’s wry reflection.”

By Book Marks | January 9, 2025

What to read next based on your favorite film of the year (redux).

What to read next based on your favorite film of the year (redux).

By Brittany Allen | January 8, 2025

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