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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"Offering a mouthful of nectar that tastes faintly of blood."

By Book Marks | September 28, 2023

Which Big Fall Book Should You Read?

Which Big Fall Book Should You Read?

(A flowchart)

By Emily Temple | September 26, 2023

Letting the Unspoken Speak: A Reading List of Historical Trauma in Fiction

Letting the Unspoken Speak: A Reading List of Historical Trauma in Fiction

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By Etaf Rum | September 22, 2023

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 Anne Enright, Jonathan Raban, Daniel Mason, and More

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As I Lay Dying: Five Books that Reckon with Illness and Time

As I Lay Dying: Five Books that Reckon with Illness and Time

Maria Smilios Recommends Samuel Beckett, Elizabeth Tova Bailey & More

By Maria Smilios | September 21, 2023

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"Her book has promised universal absolution and universal absolution it must deliver."

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Mystery, Mayhem, and Trauma: A Reading List for India's 1947 Partition

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Art Books Extraordinaire: 10 of Phaidon's Most Innovative Titles of the Past Century

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Making Formulas Fresh Again: A Reading List of Fantasy Tropes Reimagined

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Featuring New Titles by Lauren Groff, Naomi Klein, James Ellroy, and More

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The Annotated Nightstand: What Olga Ravn is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Olga Ravn is Reading Now and Next

Featuring Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Kate Zambreno, Mikhail Bulgakov, and More

By Diana Arterian | September 14, 2023

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"There’s a whiff of desperate masculinity floating through the book, as rank as a Pretoria boys’ locker room"

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The Ultimate Fall 2023 Books Preview

The Ultimate Fall 2023 Books Preview

106 Books The Critics Think You Should Read This Season

By Emily Temple | September 14, 2023

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

Featuring new titles by Zadie Smith, Stephen King, Maria Bamford, and More

By Book Marks | September 8, 2023

The Annotated Nightstand: What Myriam Gurba is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Myriam Gurba is Reading Now and Next

Featuring Ann Petry, Victor LaValle, Leslie Marmon Silko, and More

By Diana Arterian | September 7, 2023

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Andrea Long Chu on Zadie Smith, Jonathan Dee on Ariel Dorfman, James Wood on George Eliot, and More

By Book Marks | September 7, 2023

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