What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
Featuring New Titles by Helen Phillips, Eliza Griswold, Jane Alison, and More
Bringing Felice Bauer to Life in Magdaléna Platzová’s Life After Kafka
Alex Zucker on the Importance of Style and Voice in Literary Translation
Do Dolphins Give Each Other… Names?
Arik Kershenbaum on What It Means When Dolphins Whistle To Each Other
Flynn Berry on an Underrated Tool for Character Development: Grocery Shopping
“I need to know if my character shops for convenience or comfort. If she’s buying ingredients for elaborate recipes, or frozen ready-meals.”
An Indian Journalist on the Hit List: Investigating the Shocking Assassination of Gauri Lankesh
Rollo Romig on Bangalore, Spiritually Sanctioned Murder, and the Self-Delusions of India's Police Force
“Black Infiltrators.” On the Systematic Abuse of African Refugees in Israel
Sylvain Cypel Considers the Emergence of Anti-Blackness as a Powerful Motivator in Israeli Society
When the Best Possible Story is Right Outside Your Door
Nathan Deuel on (Trying) to Teach Travel Writing in the Middle of the UCLA Student Protests
My Friends Have Bad Taste in Poetry and I Want to Tell Them: Am I the Literary Asshole?
Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior
Giants’ Bones? Fossilized Testicles? How Humans Reacted to the Discovery of Dinosaurs
Edward Dolnick on Rigorous Yet Humorously Misguided Scientific Inquiry in the 17th and 18th Centuries
Remembering the Jasmine of Ramallah; Or, How to Write to the Heart of the Matter in a Broken World
Ben Ehrenreich on the Impossibility of Narrative Containment
Jesus Freaks: On the Free Spirited Evangelicals of the 1970s and 80s
Eliza Griswold Chronicles the Emergence of a Unique Blend of Counterculture and Christianity
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
“As in David Lynch’s ‘Blue Velvet,’ sometimes there are weird men in his closets.”
How Football Builds Community and Camaraderie Among Deaf Students
Thomas Fuller on High School Sports and Deaf Culture in the Shadow of COVID-19
“Scattered Snows, to the North,” a Poem by Carl Phillips
From the Collection “Scattered Snows, to the North”
Jasmin Graham on Understanding Sharks
In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction
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