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2025 Book Reviews Collection
Explore a curated list of book reviews from The New York Review of Books and The Paris Review, organized from newest to oldest by review date. Stay updated with insightful critiques and literary discussions throughout 2025.
- Claudia Durastanti makes the case for Separate Rooms, the late Italian writer’s elegiac queer classic now back in print.
Cathedrals of Solitude: On Pier Vittorio Tondelli
- Highlights from new and forthcoming books chosen by Sophie Haigney and Olivia Kan-Sperling, featuring André Breton, Britney Spears, and more.
Nadja and Britney
- B. D. McClay reconsiders Austen’s lightest novel as a sly study of how we (mis)judge people by the smallest clues.
I Can Read You Like a Book: On Northanger Abbey
- Michael Hofmann wrestles with four arresting new translations of Andrey Platonov and the novelist’s austere imaginative world.
Novels Without Food
- Namwali Serpell champions Nettie Jones’s long-overlooked 1984 debut Fish Tales, newly reissued and still shockingly ahead of its time.
Keeping Up with Mrs. Jones
- Kwame Anthony Appiah reviews two books that probe the art—and ethics—of carrying literature across languages.
Translation’s Drift
- Kathryn Hughes weighs a lively new history of four medieval women’s lives—mystic, poet, widow, and wife—for what it says (and misses) about early feminism.
Feminists in Wimples
- Sophia Rosenfeld’s The Age of Choice asks whether equating freedom with personal choice has been good for society—and for women in particular.
My Freedom, My Choice