The 10 Best Books of 2018

Laura Miller

Dec 10, 2018 5:55 AM

This Book Is the Most Honest and Eloquent Expression of What Illness Is Like I’ve Ever Read

Christopher Shinn

Dec 05, 2018 9:00 AM

Lord Byron’s Wife: The First Woman to Have to Deal With Her Bad Boy Husband’s Cruel Fans

Laura Miller

Dec 04, 2018 11:52 AM

N.K. Jemisin Is Reimagining Other Worlds, and Ours

Tammy Oler

Dec 03, 2018 9:00 AM

The Birth, Death, and Long Afterlife of Edward Gorey’s Gashlycrumb Tinies

Mark Dery

Nov 14, 2018 2:29 PM

Why Did Wesley Yang Call His Book The Souls of Yellow Folk When He’s Unwilling to Look at So Many of Us?

Sophia Nguyen

Nov 05, 2018 10:54 AM

How Julie Doucet Taught Me to Make Art out of My Life

Jami Attenberg

Oct 29, 2018 11:13 AM

Jack the Ripper, Now With Extra Red

Keith Pille

Oct 26, 2018 11:57 AM

The Witch Elm Suggests There’s Nothing That Tana French Can’t Do

Laura Miller

Oct 09, 2018 10:10 AM

The Birth of the Myers-Briggs and the Unscientific Weirdness of Personality Testing

Laura Miller

Oct 05, 2018 12:04 PM

A Spy Thriller About the Menial Office Workers Behind WWII Espionage

Laura Miller

Sept 25, 2018 9:00 AM

Uncle Gunnar Really, Really Didn’t Like Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle

Karl Ove Knausgaard

Sept 19, 2018 10:00 AM

Barthes, NME, Depression, and the Consolation of Reading

Brian Dillon

Sept 18, 2018 10:30 AM

Celebrating the Queer Black Radical Who Wrote A Raisin in the Sun

Brandon Tensley

Sept 17, 2018 5:45 AM

A Calm, Knowledgeable Book on the Heated Subject of Identity and Why It Matters

Laura Miller

Sept 14, 2018 12:58 PM

Read Knausgaard From First Word to Last and He Will Change You

Charles Finch

Sept 12, 2018 9:30 AM

Who Owns Franz Kafka?

Rebecca Schuman

Sept 10, 2018 10:30 AM

Bob Woodward’s New Book Presents Trump Staffers as Our Last Line of Defense. We’re Doomed.

Isaac Chotiner

Sept 09, 2018 4:57 PM

A Terrific Chronicle of the Past, Present, and Future of Jazz

Carl Wilson

Sept 07, 2018 2:31 PM

Lydia Kiesling on Bureaucracy, California, and Motherhood

Lili Loofbourow

Sept 06, 2018 9:00 AM