What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
Featuring Kaveh Akbar, Frantz Fanon, Elizabeth Gonzalez James, and More
Author as Illusionist: William Maxwell on Literary Magic and Refusing to Give Up as a Writer
Alec Wilkinson Introduces Maxwell’s Speech at Smith College in 1955
So Fetch, So Fierce: In Praise of All the Literary Mean Girls
Jennifer Keishin Armstrong Recommends Mona Awad, Kirthana Ramisetti, Anna Bogutskaya, and More
More (And More) Meat: How Doctors Treated Diabetes Before Insulin Therapy
Gary Taubes on the History of Diet-Based Remedies For Chronic Illness
The Annotated Nightstand: What Brandi Wells is Reading Now and Next
Featuring George Eliot, Jeanette Winterson, Julie Otsuka, and More
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
“The ingenious doctor and impassioned activist was every bit as much a victim of empire as the patients he worked to heal.”
Am I the Literary Assh*le? Judging Your Bad Bookish Behavior
Introducing a New Column with Kristen Arnett
The Revolutionary Stranger: How Frantz Fanon Put Theory Into Practice
Adam Shatz on the Life and Legacy of a Great Post-Colonialism Thinker
How America’s First Cinematic Black Vampire Subverted Stereotypes
Odie Henderson on the Making of “Blacula” and the Broader History of Blaxploitation Cinema
Life a Cold Crematorium: A Long-Lost Memoir from a Holocaust Survivor
József Debreczeni Recounts a Terrifying Train Ride from Hungary to Auschwitz with His Fellow Prisoners
What Virginia Woolf’s “Dreadnought Hoax” Tells Us About Ourselves
Danell Jones Grapples With a Beloved Author’s Casual Racism
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