• Reading Lists

    Travel

    Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

     
    By Brittany Allen  May 23, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  May 23, 2025
    Book Marks

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  May 22, 2025
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Alison Bechdel Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  May 22, 2025
    Reading Lists

    Should I Stay or Should I Go? Five Novels Involving Destructive Relationships

    By Meg Serino  May 21, 2025
    Food Writing

    Face Pies, Holiday Turkeys, Finger-Feeding Critics: The Five Best Food Scenes in Literature

    By Adam Roberts  May 20, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Work

    Clocking In, Hauntings, and Sticking It to the Patriarchy: Seven Novels on the Workplace

    By Lorna Graham  May 19, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  May 16, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  May 15, 2025
    Apocalypses

    Nonfiction Against the End of the World: An Apocalypse Reading List

    Martha Park Recommends Mark O’Connell, Emily Raboteau, Jeff Sharlet and More

    By Martha Park  May 23, 2025
    Experimental Fiction

    Neither Plot Nor Character, But… Something Else? Ten Novels with Mind-Blowing Structures

    By Lincoln Michel  May 13, 2025
    New Books Tuesdays

    Rebecca Solnit! Ocean Vuong! Axe murders! 27 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  May 13, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  May 9, 2025
    Mothers and Daughters

    Friend, Foe, Family, Stranger: Fourteen Books on Black Motherhood by Black Daughters

    Tramaine Suubi Recommends Toi Derricotte, Toni Morrison, Deesha Philyaw, and More

    By Tramaine Suubi  May 9, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  May 8, 2025
    World War II

    From the French Resistance to the Horrors of Hiroshima: Eight Globe-Spanning Books on World War II

    By Natasha Lester  May 8, 2025
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Jennifer Hope Choi Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  May 8, 2025
    New Books Tuesdays

    Andy Warhol! James Joyce! Josephine Baker! 27 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  May 6, 2025
    Female Friendship

    More Than a Subplot: Five Novels That Explore and Center Female Friendship

    By Disha Bose  May 5, 2025
    Children's Literature

    Universe-Expanding Children’s Books Coming Out in May

    By Caroline Carlson  May 2, 2025
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Horse Girls, Ghostly Aftertastes, and Alien Plants: May’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

    By Natalie Zutter  May 2, 2025
    New Poetry

    Glass Houses, Hells, and Phantom Limbs: Seven New Poetry Collections to Read in May

    Rebecca Morgan Frank Highlights What Books to Check Out This Month

    By Rebecca Morgan Frank  May 2, 2025
    Literary Criticism

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  May 1, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    April’s Best Reviewed Fiction

    By Book Marks  April 30, 2025
    The Hub

    What to read next if you loved Sinners.

    By Brittany Allen  May 14, 2025
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