This piece primarily discusses fiction or memoir, but some of my favorite book reviews are the longform reviews of nonfiction in outlets like The New Yorker or

This piece primarily discusses fiction or memoir, but some of my favorite book reviews are the longform reviews of nonfiction in outlets like The New Yorker or The New York Review of Books, sometimes grouping a couple books on a topic, distilling and often augmenting the primary books under discussion with additional sources.