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May’s Best Reviewed Fiction

May’s Best Reviewed Fiction

Featuring New Titles by Claire Messud, Colm Tóibín, Miranda July, and More

By Book Marks | May 31, 2024

Jhumpa Lahiri! Colson Whitehead! Sex cults! 25 new books out in paperback this June.

Jhumpa Lahiri! Colson Whitehead! Sex cults! 25 new books out in paperback this June.

By Gabrielle Bellot | May 31, 2024

AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of May

AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of May

The Month in Listening Literarily

By Audiofile Magazine | May 31, 2024

Between Languages: Yukiko Tominaga on Writing in English and Japanese

Between Languages: Yukiko Tominaga on Writing in English and Japanese

“Switching around the two languages frees me from my own stigma.”

By Yukiko Tominaga | May 31, 2024

I Think Most Short Stories Are Glorified Therapy Sessions: Am I the Literary Asshole?

I Think Most Short Stories Are Glorified Therapy Sessions: Am I the Literary Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | May 30, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The novel draws on a long tradition of mystical writing that confuses sacred and secular desire.”

By Book Marks | May 30, 2024

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • This Is Where the Serpent Lives
  • Lost Lambs
  • Winter: The Story of a Season
  • The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
  • The Hitch
  • Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China

Jonny Diamond on His Mother and Alice Munro

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 30, 2024

Literary Catharsis: Jenna Tang on Translating Lin Yi-Han’s Only Novel, Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise

By Jenna Tang | May 30, 2024

Cass Sunstein on How to Become Famous

By History of Literature | May 30, 2024

18 New Novels You Need to Read This Summer

18 New Novels You Need to Read This Summer

More Light, More Books

By Emily Temple | May 29, 2024

Hanif Abdurraqib on Gloria Naylor’s <em>The Women of Brewster Place</em>

Hanif Abdurraqib on Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place

In Conversation for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | May 29, 2024

The Narrative Pleasures of Social Discomfort: A Reading List of School Reunion Stories

The Narrative Pleasures of Social Discomfort: A Reading List of School Reunion Stories

Elise Juska Recommends Mary McCarthy, Sam Lipsyte, Philip Roth, and More

By Elise Juska | May 29, 2024

A Queer, Carnivalesque Vision of Chile’s Independence Day from Pedro Lemebel

A Queer, Carnivalesque Vision of Chile’s Independence Day from Pedro Lemebel

From “A Last Supper of Queer Apostles: Selected Essays”

By Pedro Lemebel | May 29, 2024

Remembering Paul Auster

Remembering Paul Auster

1947-2024

By Literary Hub | May 28, 2024

Doreen St. Félix on Using Pop Culture to Consider Society

Doreen St. Félix on Using Pop Culture to Consider Society

In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics

By The Critic and Her Publics | May 28, 2024

You’ll Need More Than That Reverse Cowgirl: The Craft of Writing (Actually) Good Sex Scenes

You’ll Need More Than That Reverse Cowgirl: The Craft of Writing (Actually) Good Sex Scenes

Yael van der Wouden Explores the Literary-Erotic Power of Tension, Character Motivation, Weirdness, and Discomfort

By Yael van der Wouden | May 28, 2024

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