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Presenting Book Marks Best Reviewed Books of 2018
Our beloved fellow books site—Book Marks—spends most of December asking itself a lot of questions: Of the thousands of books published this year, which one → Read More
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
Fiction 1. Sunburn by Laura Lippman (6 Rave, 1 Positive) "It's an explicit salute to Cain — at one point one of its main characters takes certain inspiration from the classic film versions of Postman and Indemnity — and a more than worthy one ... It's tough to say very much about Sunburn without risking spoilers, and → Read More
Rebecca Steinitz on Bleak House, Balanced Reviewing, and Spectacular Pakistani Novels
Welcome to Secrets of the Book Critics, a new feature in which books journalists from around the US share their thoughts on beloved classics, overlooked recent gems, misconceptions about the industry, and the changing nature of literary criticism in the age of social media. Each week we'll spotlight a critic from a → Read More
Nothing Short of Revolutionary:On Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls
At last week's PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony in New York, Irish novelist Edna O'Brien received the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature for work that allows readers to "look clearly and dispassionately upon the spectrum of human emotion." Her debut novel, The Country Girls—the story of → Read More
Bethanne Patrick on A Passage to India, Experimental Fiction, and Female Book Critics
Welcome to Secrets of the Book Critics, a new feature in which books journalists from around the US share their thoughts on beloved classics, overlooked recent gems, misconceptions about the industry, and the changing nature of literary criticism in the age of social media. Each week we'll spotlight a critic from a → Read More
3 Classic Reviews for Judy Blume’s Birthday
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (1970) "The comical longings of little girls who want to be big girls—exercising to the chant of 'We must—we must—increase our bust!'—and the wistful longing of Margaret, who talks comfortably to God, for a religion, come together as her anxiety to be normal, which is natural enough → Read More
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
Among the most interesting critical takes of the week, Stephanie Powell Watts writes that Tayari Jones' An American Marriage "gives us a quiet, revolutionary statement about black innocence"; Hadley Freeman thinks the rage in Rose McGowan's memoir burns so hot that it threatens to engulf the whole book; and Parul → Read More
Ellen Akins on the Self-Indulgence of Walden and the Wonder of Wuthering Heights
Welcome to Secrets of the Book Critics, a new feature in which books journalists from around the US share their thoughts on beloved classics, overlooked recent gems, misconceptions about the industry, and the changing nature of literary criticism in the age of social media. Each week we'll spotlight a critic from a → Read More
Marion Winik on Portnoy’s Complaint, Mrs. Caliban, and Goodreads Diehards
Welcome to Secrets of the Book Critics, a new feature in which books journalists from around the US share their thoughts on beloved classics, overlooked recent gems, misconceptions about the industry, and the changing nature of literary criticism in the age of social media. Each week we'll spotlight a critic from a → Read More
Robert Frost, JFK, and the Lengthening Reaches of Eternity
This tribute verse to be his own I bring Is about the new order of the ages That in the Latin of the founding sages God nodded his approval of as good. So much those sages know and understood (The mighty four of them were Washington, John Adams, Jefferson and Madison) So much they saw as consecrated seers They must → Read More
Mother to Us All: On Ursula K. LeGuin's <em>The Language of the Night</em>
The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny. * "It is a pure pleasure to turn to Ursula K. LeGuin, a writer who inhabits no one's corral. The Language of the Night is a roundup of some of her most interning work—a collection → Read More
Charlotte Shane on the Fragility of Authors’ Egos
Welcome to Secrets of the Book Critics, a new feature in which books journalists from around the US share their thoughts on beloved classics, overlooked recent gems, misconceptions about the industry, and the changing nature of literary criticism in the age of social media. Each week we'll spotlight a critic from a → Read More
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
Fiction 1. The Vanishing Princess by Jenny Diski (9 Rave, 1 Positive, 2 Mixed) "Diski's wonderful story collection, The Vanishing Princess, holds riches for all. Longtime fans will celebrate the very fact of more Diski and thrill to familiar preoccupations in new settings and shapes. Those who know only the self → Read More
Denis Johnson’s Dazzling, Savage Debut Novel
He got right down in the dark between heartbeats, and rested there. * “For many Americans, the man on the run from society often becomes a hero. We dream of those who ride across the desert s… → Read More
The Best Reviewed Nonfiction of 2017
1. by David Grann (18 Rave, 4 Positive, 1 Mixed) ".. disturbing and riveting book ... If this all sounds like the plot of a detective novel, you have fallen → Read More
The Best Reviewed Books of 2017:History & Politics
History & Politics 1. by David Grann (18 Rave, 4 Positive, 1 Mixed) "...the strangest, most horrific story that Grann has told ... Grann folds it, neatly, into → Read More
The Best Reviewed Books of 2017: Short Story Collections
1. by Elizabeth Strout (25 Rave, 3 Positive) "These stories return Strout to the core of what she does more magnanimously than anyone else, which is to render → Read More
The Most Scathing Reviews of 2017
We're not haters here. Book Marks is a benevolent oracle, existing only to enlighten. All we want is to spread the gospel of high quality literary criticism so → Read More
John Ashbery's 1969 Review of </br>Elizabeth Bishop's <em>Complete Poems</em>
"Her next book, Questions of Travel (1965), completely erased the doubts that A Cold Spring had aroused in one reader. The distance between Varick Street and → Read More
A Remarkable Dreamlike Fable:</br>Rachel Ingalls' <em>Mrs. Caliban</em>
“…a remarkable little novel … Almost all of Ingalls’s stories evoke an atmosphere of breathless expectancy: something wonderful or horrid seems always about to happen. This tone o… → Read More