5 Books Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Books Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Yiyun Li on Elizabeth McCracken, Catherine Lacey on Gwendoline Riley, Ryan Ruby on Ian McEwan, and More

By Book Marks | September 22, 2022

The Ultimate Fall 2022 Books Preview

The Ultimate Fall 2022 Books Preview

Doing the Math So You Don't Have to Since 2017

By Emily Temple | September 21, 2022

How Truman Capote and Andy Warhol's Complex Friendship Marked Them Both

How Truman Capote and Andy Warhol's Complex Friendship Marked Them Both

Blake Gopnik and Rob Roth on Adapting the Conversations of Two American Icons for the Stage

By Blake Gopnik and Rob Roth | September 21, 2022

Beyond Apocalypse: How the New Eco-Literature Points Toward Ways of Reshaping Our Consciousness

Beyond Apocalypse: How the New Eco-Literature Points Toward Ways of Reshaping Our Consciousness

Alan Rossi on the Novels That Grapple with a World in Crisis

By Alan Rossi | September 21, 2022

Maggie O’Farrell on Elspeth Barker’s Modern Scottish Classic, <em>O Caledonia</em>

Maggie O’Farrell on Elspeth Barker’s Modern Scottish Classic, O Caledonia

“This book, then, is the equivalent of a literary phoenix—rare, thrilling, one of a kind.”

By Maggie O'Farrell | September 20, 2022

Exploring Spaces Between Experiences and Stories: Rachel Aviv and Chloé Cooper Jones in Conversation

Exploring Spaces Between Experiences and Stories: Rachel Aviv and Chloé Cooper Jones in Conversation

The Author of Strangers to Ourselves Discusses Diagnoses, Introspection, and the Collaborative Process of Writing about Real People

By Chloé Cooper Jones | September 19, 2022

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Country People
  • You Won't Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters
  • Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991
  • A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies
  • It Will Come Back to You: Collected Stories
  • Cloudthief
  • Cool Machine
  • Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast
  • Beginning Middle End
  • They Stole a City: Wilmington's White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live with Its Legacy

Break Everything and Begin Again: On Fragmentation as a Form

By Sarah Haas | September 19, 2022

Teaching Literature in the New Culture Wars: Some Alternative Approaches

By Deborah Appleman | September 19, 2022

In Praise of the Bold, Powerful Women of Slavic Fairy Tales

By Olesya Salnikova Gilmore | September 19, 2022

When Collective Trauma Becomes Collective Amnesia: Reading Polina Barskova on Russia’s Myth of Itself

When Collective Trauma Becomes Collective Amnesia: Reading Polina Barskova on Russia’s Myth of Itself

Tanya Paperny on Contemporary Interrogations of Soviet Triumphalism

By Tanya Paperny | September 16, 2022

The Art of the Hand-Sell: Booksellers Recommend Translations

The Art of the Hand-Sell: Booksellers Recommend Translations

14 Books To Read In Honor of National Translation Month

By Katie Yee | September 16, 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 from Ian McEwan, Robert Harris, Kate Beaton, Ling Ma, and more

By Book Marks | September 16, 2022

Dwarves, the Most Ill-Served of Jackson’s Hero Races, Get an Upgrade in <em>The Rings of Power</em>

Dwarves, the Most Ill-Served of Jackson’s Hero Races, Get an Upgrade in The Rings of Power

Coherent Themes! Complex Characters! Jenna Kass and Dylan Roth Recap Episode 4

By Jenna Kass and Dylan Roth | September 16, 2022

Ellen Meeropol on Writing Into the Gaps Left by Untold Family Stories

Ellen Meeropol on Writing Into the Gaps Left by Untold Family Stories

“When more isn’t there, or the story is hidden, my imagination fills in the blanks left by small snippets of family history.”

By Ellen Meeropol | September 16, 2022

On the Myth of the Made Writer and the Madness of Emerging

On the Myth of the Made Writer and the Madness of Emerging

Or: Encounters with Michael Ondaatje’s Dog

By Kailyn McCord | September 15, 2022

Read the Winners of <em>American Short Fiction</em>’s 2022 Insider Prize, Selected by Lauren Hough

Read the Winners of American Short Fiction’s 2022 Insider Prize, Selected by Lauren Hough

Memoir by Michael John Wiese; Fiction by David Antares

By Literary Hub | September 15, 2022

Page 238 of 473

  • Literary Hub

    Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature


    Masthead

    About

    Sign Up For Our Newsletters

    How to Pitch Lit Hub

    Advertisers: Contact Us

    Privacy Policy

    Support Lit Hub - Become A Member

    • If you buy books linked on our site, Lit Hub may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores.