5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The stories are folksy, a little retro and sensual, with multiple dips into earthy, furtive lesbian lust.”

By Book Marks | February 26, 2026

A Sultry, Summery Escape: Seven Hamptons Novels to Read This Winter

A Sultry, Summery Escape: Seven Hamptons Novels to Read This Winter

Nicole Sellew Recommends Candace Bushnell, Beth Morgan, Emma Cline and More

By Nicole Sellew | February 26, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

For the week ending February 22, 2026

By Literary Hub | February 26, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

For the week ending February 22, 2026

By Literary Hub | February 26, 2026

Tayari Jones on Moving Back Home

Tayari Jones on Moving Back Home

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds

By Thresholds | February 26, 2026

Brian Platzer on the Complex Ties Between Teachers and Students

Brian Platzer on the Complex Ties Between Teachers and Students

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | February 26, 2026

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

Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is a Deranged, Half-Assed Bodice-Ripper That Entirely Misses the Point

By Emily Van Duyne | February 25, 2026

The Tortoise in the Tree: A Yoruba Folktale

By Báyò Akómoláfé | February 25, 2026

Mothering at the End of the World: Six Contemporary Novels That Center Caretaking Through Crisis

By Sarah Bruni | February 25, 2026

Proust and the Journey of Self-Discovery

Proust and the Journey of Self-Discovery

The Cosmic Library continues its Proust season

By The Cosmic Library | February 25, 2026

Marina Carr on Virginia Woolf's <em>To the Lighthouse</em>

Marina Carr on Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse

In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | February 25, 2026

How Do We Keep Writing When They are Killing Poets?

How Do We Keep Writing When They are Killing Poets?

Sayantani DasGupta Writers on Creating in a Time of Dread

By Sayantani DasGupta | February 24, 2026

Writing While the Alphabet Burns: Ukrainian Literature to Help Understand the Ongoing War

Writing While the Alphabet Burns: Ukrainian Literature to Help Understand the Ongoing War

Introducing a New Critical Series For the Curious Reader

By Alex Averbuch | February 24, 2026

Tayari Jones Still Needs To Read <em>Anna Karenina</em>

Tayari Jones Still Needs To Read Anna Karenina

The Author of Kin Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | February 24, 2026

Lauren Groff, Michael Pollan, Tayari Jones, and more: 22 new books out today!

Lauren Groff, Michael Pollan, Tayari Jones, and more: 22 new books out today!

By Julia Hass | February 24, 2026

On the So-Called Reading Crisis as Class Warfare

On the So-Called Reading Crisis as Class Warfare

Eunsong Kim Considers the Relationship Between Art and Capitalism

By Eunsong Kim | February 23, 2026

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