The Maris Review, vol 117
This week's theme is who gets to celebrate and go home, and who doesn't What I read this week Etna by Paul Yoon I'm a big Paul Yoon fan but I approached his latest novel with some trepidation. As Josh said, the only book
The Maris Review, vol 116
The theme of the week is how AI is making the world (more) stupid What I read this week The Vivisectors by Missouri Williams What to do with this frustrating, brilliant novel! I almost wanted to take a week longer to think about it before I wrote about it, but
The Maris Review, vol 115
This week's theme is what happens (nothing good!) when you mine your life for material for your fiction What I read this week You Won't Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters by Rachel Aviv Rachel Aviv has one of my favorite journalistic beats.
The Maris Review, vol 114
The theme of this week is very simple: two of the hottest novels of summer 2026 What I read this week Famous Men by Julie Buntin "I was naive, but not so naive that I hadn't already heard this story, both of us fitting neatly into our
The Maris Review, vol 113
The theme of the week is terrible men and the havoc they wreak! What I read this week A Real Animal by Emmeline Atwood In 2019 Catapult published Meander, Spiral, Explode, novelist Jane Allison's craft book on narrative structure and the classic hero's journey and how
The Maris Review, vol 112
The theme of the week is multiple personalities, figuratively What I read this week I'm a Lot: Surviving Myself and All the People I've Been by Alison Leiby Alison Leiby is my husband's work wife which means that we are family. I know a
The Maris Review, vol 111
This week's theme is fictional characters who are destined to write autobiographical fiction What I read this week Whistler by Anne Patchett So damn charming, as always. Whistler is a deceptively simple story of family love told with absolute precision, just as Tom Lake was previously. How good
The Maris Review, vol 110
**More patience from you required because I'm definitely not my sharpest this week: After so much water leaked into our apartment last weekend, we found out that we have to completely pack up our apartment and move out while gut renovations happen, timing unknown – somewhere between four and
The Maris Review, vol 109
This week's theme is affordable housing **Please bear with me this week. On Sunday the sprinkler system in our building went on the fritz, and we had water coming in everywhere. Thankfully most of the books have made it (a few galleys had to go) but everything is
The Maris Review, vol 108
This week's theme is mighty triumvirates and/or friend throuples What I read this week My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein: A Fiction by Deborah Levy No one does it like Deborah Levy on a sentence level, whether she's writing a novel or a memoir
The Maris Review, vol 107
The theme of the week is crossing boundaries and borders; it's so on the nose that I'm a little ashamed What I read this week No God But Us by Bobuq Sayed "Istanbul is where the people displaced by all the wars end up. They&
The Maris Review, vol 106
The theme of the week is "Every piece of writing is a wager about how things may or may not hold together, on the page and off." – Emily Labarge What I read this week Dog Days by Emily Labarge I love books like this: a big fat blend