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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“A family is always a bit of a fantasy, requiring some realist puncturing. Every good biographer, then, is a problem child.”
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From Glasnost to Silence: The Collapse of Literary Freedom in Russia

Svetlana Satchkova on the Logic of Authoritarianism
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What Keeps Us Human: How My Palestinian Father Met My Jewish Mother

Hannah Lillith Assadi on Overcoming Impossible Barriers to Love
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On the Genius of Frances Burney, Jane Austen’s Most Important Literary Predecessor

Natasha Joukovsky Considers Ahead-of-Their-Time Novels Cecilia and Evelina

DIY Creativity: What Conserving Art and Writing Fiction Have in Common

By Karma Brown

How the First-Ever Plantation Almost Fell to Full-Scale Revolt

By Daniel Rood

“It’s a Steal.”
A Poem by Seema Jilani

By Seema Jilani

A Singular Pursuit: Why All Writing (and All Writers) Matter More Than Ever Today

By Timothy J. Hillegonds

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

By Literary Hub

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

By Literary Hub

Jeff Boyd on Cops, Teachers, and Chicago

By Fiction Non Fiction

On the Laughable Origins of the Far Right’s Beloved “Great Replacement Theory”

By Ibram X. Kendi

When the Fountain Runs Dry: On Aging, Immortality and the Illusion of Everlasting Youth

By Casey Scieszka

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We Have Too Little Time (and This Makes Us All Too Human)

By Rivka Weinberg

On the Beautiful, Terrible Villains of Reality Television

By Jack Balderrama Morley

Meet Hildegard of Bingen, the German Mystic Who Destigmatized Women’s Health

By Elinor Cleghorn

Enchantment is Possible

By The Cosmic Library

Love Stories, Feminism, and Why Cemeteries Are Sexy

By Jessica Ferri

What Playing Basketball Taught Me About the Creative Process

By Ben Markovits

Crime Reads

Crime Reads

March 17, 2026

The Best International Crime Novels of March 2026

By Molly Odintz

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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The Best Crime Novels, Mysteries, and Thrillers of March 2026

By Molly Odintz

Book Marks

Book Marks

5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

The Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Aracelis Girmay on Reading Toni Morrison and Lucille Clifton

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“By a Trans Woman, About Trans Women, For Trans Readers.” On Imogen Binnie’s Nevada

By Denne Michele Norris

On the Origins of Genuine Intersectionality in Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s How We Get Free

By Alexis Clements

On the Origins of Genuine Intersectionality in Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s How We Get Free

By Alexis Clements

Murder At the Supreme Court: Who Really Killed Roe v. Wade?

By Amy Littlefield

Are Economists, in Fact, the Unacknowledged Poets of the World

By Ed Simon

Matters of the Spirit: A Pastor, a Noblewoman and a Mysterious Bout of Melancholy

By Christopher Clark

Are Economists, in Fact, the Unacknowledged Poets of the World

By Ed Simon

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

By Brittany Allen