5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
“It’s a total, self-encapsulating project—about a total, self-encapsulating doom.”
Clarence A. Haynes on Finding the Soundscape of Your Novel
“I needed sounds that were lush, that could carry these characters’ emotional weight.”
What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
Featuring Kathy Wang, the CIA, Nell Stevens, and More
Have You Considered an Anarchist Approach to Plot?
Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante on Throwing Bombs, Emotional Movement, and Other Plot Devices
Dina Nayeri on Iranian Life Under Attack
In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction
Is Summer Actually the Season for Reading Big, Thick Books?
In Which James Folta Wonders If Bigger Really is Better
How Houston’s Third Ward Became a Hub of Black Art, Culture, and Opportunity
Lauren O'Neill Butler on Shotgun Houses, Segregation, and the Art of Rick Lowe and John Biggers
Jessica Berger Gross on the Special Euphoria of Debuting as a Novelist in Her 50s
The Author of “Hazel Says No” Shares What She Learned from Decades of Doubt
Other, Better Worlds: Pip Adam on the Possibilities of Politically Engaged Speculative Fiction
Danielle Dutton In Conversation With the Author of “Audition”
How Immigrants and Other ESL Students Make American English Their Own
Megan C. Reynolds on the Linguistic Quirks That Contribute to the Diversity of the English Language
On the Dehumanizing Impact of Deportation and Our Obligations to Each Other
Laurie Sheck Considers the Plight of Refugee Children
Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini on Bola Agbaje’s Gone Too Far!
In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
“How Much We Died…”
A Poem by Nasser Rabah
“nothing left in the day’s haggard pockets / but dizzying hunger and rows of rubble”
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