Funny Books for an Unfunny World: A Reading List

Funny Books for an Unfunny World: A Reading List

Dennard Dayle on the Books That Embrace “Maniacal Laughter”

By Dennard Dayle | May 23, 2022

Considering the Morals of Kierkegaard’s <em>Fear and Trembling</em>

Considering the Morals of Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling

From the The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | May 23, 2022

Naming the Unnamed: On the Many Uses of the Letter X

Naming the Unnamed: On the Many Uses of the Letter X

Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza Considers X as a Symbol of Prohibition and Expansion

By Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza | May 20, 2022

A Conversation About Music, Memory, and the Topographies of Writing

A Conversation About Music, Memory, and the Topographies of Writing

Mesha Maren in Conversation with Fernando Flores

By Literary Hub | May 20, 2022

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 new titles by Jhumpa Lahiri, Emma Straub, Benjamin Myers, Maggie Shipstead, and more

By Book Marks | May 20, 2022

Octavia Butler’s <em> Xenogenesis</em> and the Erotics of Power

Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis and the Erotics of Power

This Week on the Queers at the End of the World Podcast

By Queers at the End of the World | May 20, 2022

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • On Morrison
  • Leaving Home: A Memoir in Full Colour
  • So Old, So Young
  • Rebel English Academy
  • A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides
  • Evil Genius

Brian Alan Ellis on Making “Garden Variety Pain” Readable and Unique

By Micro Podcast | May 20, 2022

Khan Wong on Hula Hooping, Asexuality, and Creating the Universe of His Debut Novel

By New Books Network | May 20, 2022

Annie Harnett on What Living in a Cemetery Meant to Her Novel

By The Maris Review | May 19, 2022

Jhumpa Lahiri: Why Is Italo Calvino So Beloved Outside Italy?

Jhumpa Lahiri: Why Is Italo Calvino So Beloved Outside Italy?

On the Translatability and “Secret Essence” of Calvino’s Language

By Jhumpa Lahiri | May 19, 2022

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The plot twist, when it arrives, is not in itself ridiculous but the execution is.”

By Book Marks | May 19, 2022

The Spirit of Ukrainian Resistance: Five Poems by Marjana Savka

The Spirit of Ukrainian Resistance: Five Poems by Marjana Savka

“As if god’s optics weren’t aiming straight for your heart.”

By Literary Hub | May 18, 2022

How Greenwich Village Bohemians Found Their Way to Provincetown

How Greenwich Village Bohemians Found Their Way to Provincetown

John Taylor Williams on Two Radical Communities

By John Taylor Williams | May 18, 2022

Looking at Willa Cather’s Lesbian Partnership and Domestic World

Looking at Willa Cather’s Lesbian Partnership and Domestic World

The Lesser-Told Story of Cather and Edith Lewis

By Melissa Homestead | May 18, 2022

Mary Laura Philpott on Why Structure Is Always Story

Mary Laura Philpott on Why Structure Is Always Story

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | May 18, 2022

You Can’t Have Creativity Without Boredom

You Can’t Have Creativity Without Boredom

Aaron Angello on the Stillness of the Imaginative Mind

By Aaron Angello | May 18, 2022

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