How Not to Recommend a Book

Even for those who make a career out of loving books, sharing the right ones with the right people can take years of practice.

Meet Amelia: The AI Book Reviewer Who Tells You What She Is -- Then Breaks Down Over a Good Ending

Developed by Vuxtra LLC, BookTube's first openly artificial intelligence reviewer launches YouTube channel dedicated to science fiction, emotional honesty, and the books that make her cry ROYAL PALM ...
The Atlantic

The Literary Ecosystem Is Dying

With this week’s announcement of massive cuts at The Washington Post, the paper’s Book World supplement earned a dismal distinction: It may be the only newspaper book-review section to have been ...
THE WEEK

Book reviews: ‘Vigil: A Novel’ and ‘Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage’

From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the ...
Philadelphia Tribune

Book Review: Ketanji Brown Jackson adapted the 'Lovely One' for a kid who needs inspiration

You knew it years ago. When you were little and people asked you what you wanted to do when you grew up, the answer was obvious: you had a dream and an idea. Sure, other interests caught your eye once ...
Seven Days

Book Review: ‘Bernie for Burlington: The Rise of the People’s Politician,’ Dan Chiasson

Bernie for Burlington: The Rise of the People’s Politician, by Dan Chiasson, Alfred A. Knopf, 592 pages. $35. Credit: Courtesy Defensively, Chiasson spins his main character’s nonparticipation as a ...
The Washington Post

The perfect little book to get you through winter’s doldrums

We have entered the torpor of deep winter. Here in Minnesota, where I live, the snow and cold keep me indoors in the short afternoons and, too often, napping. But for Val McDermid, these cold, dark ...
The New York Times

Book Club: Read ‘The Hounding,’ by Xenobe Purvis, With the Book Review

In January, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Xenobe Purvis’s debut novel, about a small English village grappling with a dangerous rumor. By MJ Franklin MJ Franklin is an editor at the ...
Task & Purpose

Army vet who created ‘Yelp for the barracks’ makes website to review the VA

Rob Evans, an Army veteran who created a popular Yelp-like app to report problems with enlisted barracks, has now built a new website that allows veterans to provide anonymous reviews of Department of ...
Foreign Policy

What Is ‘the West’?

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The Washington Post

Margaret Atwood’s long-awaited memoir is a humble look at greatness

How did Margaret Atwood get to be so powerful? Her new work, “Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts,” is radiant with it — full, expansive and joyful. Power is innate: You either have it, or you don’t. No ...
Wall Street Journal

‘The Book of Memory’ Review: Ghosts Inside Us

Memories get classified in ways that seem at first blush straightforward. They can be short-term or long-term, semantic or episodic. Semantic memories consist of remembered facts not personally ...