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On Reimagining <em>The Great Gatsby</em> as a Black American Story

On Reimagining The Great Gatsby as a Black American Story

Kyra Davis Lurie Explores Adaptations, Sugar Hill, and Fitzgerald’s Racism

By Kyra Davis Lurie | June 11, 2025

Sarah Aziza on Trying Not to Disappear

Sarah Aziza on Trying Not to Disappear

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds

By Thresholds | June 11, 2025

A Past Most Queer: Remembering Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Radical Gay Historical Fiction

A Past Most Queer: Remembering Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Radical Gay Historical Fiction

B. Pietras on Queering “Flint Anchor,” LGBTQ Historical Stories, and Finding the Present in the Past

By B. Pietras | June 10, 2025

Tyranny as Tragedy: On <em>King Lear</em>, Maoist China and the Unpredictable Nature of Power

Tyranny as Tragedy: On King Lear, Maoist China and the Unpredictable Nature of Power

Nan Z. Da Explores the Similarities Between Shakespeare’s Play and 20th-Century Totalitarian Reality

By Nan Z. Da | June 10, 2025

Gatherings Gone Wrong: Five Books Featuring Disastrous Party Scenes

Gatherings Gone Wrong: Five Books Featuring Disastrous Party Scenes

Jonathan Parks-Ramage Explores Brilliantly Bad Fetes in Books by Edward St. Aubyn, Raven Leilani, Deborah Eisenberg, and Others

By Jonathan Parks-Ramage | June 10, 2025

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Featuring Geoff Dyer, Ivy Pochoda, Megan Giddings and More

By Teddy Wayne | June 10, 2025

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Black Gatsby! Britney Spears! Geoff Dyer! Queer chaos! 25 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | June 10, 2025

Bad Curls, Bad Character:
The Charged Meaning of Hair in 19th-Century America

By Sarah Gold McBride | June 9, 2025

On Marianne Moore, Unexpected Celebrity Poet of Midcentury America

By Susan Gubar | June 9, 2025

Beyond Teen Fiction: Six High School Novels for Adult Readers

Beyond Teen Fiction: Six High School Novels for Adult Readers

Miriam Gershow Recommends Zoe Heller, Emily St. James, Jim Shepherd and More

By Miriam Gershow | June 9, 2025

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring Susan Choi, Desi Arnaz, Melissa Febos, and More

By Book Marks | June 6, 2025

Skeletons in the Literary Closet: Five Novels That Dangle Family Secrets Before the Reader

Skeletons in the Literary Closet: Five Novels That Dangle Family Secrets Before the Reader

Susan Walter Recommends Celest Ng, Lisa Jewell, Taylor Jenkins Reid, and More

By Susan Walter | June 6, 2025

The World is Alive; or, How Robert Macfarlane Came to Trust His Senses

The World is Alive; or, How Robert Macfarlane Came to Trust His Senses

Daegan Miller on the Beloved Nature Writer’s Latest Work

By Daegan Miller | June 5, 2025

There Are Too Many Books: What Happened to Publishing’s Summer Break?

There Are Too Many Books: What Happened to Publishing’s Summer Break?

Maris Kreizman Will Never, Ever Catch Up on Her Reading

By Maris Kreizman | June 5, 2025

Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? On <em>Notes to John</em> and the Selling of Didion’s Privacy

Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? On Notes to John and the Selling of Didion’s Privacy

Evelyn McDonnell Considers the Questions Answered—and Raised—by the Book

By Evelyn McDonnell | June 5, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Here’s a novel so pumped up and shredded it can’t possibly sit still on a shelf.”

By Book Marks | June 5, 2025

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