5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"Rachel Cusk’s repeated attempts to exterminate the novel while still writing one are genuinely impressive."

By Book Marks | June 13, 2024

Escaping the Censors’ Gaze: Lai Wen on Sci-Fi and the Need for Chinese Protest Literature Today

Escaping the Censors’ Gaze: Lai Wen on Sci-Fi and the Need for Chinese Protest Literature Today

Xinran in Conversation with the Author of "Tiananmen Square"

By Literary Hub | June 13, 2024

Camille Bordas on What Stand-Up Comedy Can Teach Writing Workshops About Growing Thicker Skin

Camille Bordas on What Stand-Up Comedy Can Teach Writing Workshops About Growing Thicker Skin

Adam Ehrlich Sachs in Conversation with the Author of “The Material”

By Adam Ehrlich Sachs | June 13, 2024

Karen Solt on Being Gay in the Navy

Karen Solt on Being Gay in the Navy

In Conversation with V.V. Ganeshananthan and Matt Gallagher on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | June 13, 2024

The Ultimate Summer 2024 Reading List

The Ultimate Summer 2024 Reading List

Or, Beach Book Bingo

By Emily Temple | June 12, 2024

Was Jane Austen Actually the Ultimate Anti-Romantic Novelist?

Was Jane Austen Actually the Ultimate Anti-Romantic Novelist?

Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey on How Austen’s Rushed Endings Undercut Her Reputation For Romance

By Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey | June 12, 2024

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  • The Pelican Child: Stories
  • Languages of Home: Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives 1975-2025
  • On the Calculation of Volume (Book III)
  • The Ferryman and His Wife
  • Empire of Orgasm: Sex, Power, and the Downfall of a Wellness Cult
  • Mexico: A 500-Year History

Autopsies, Necrophiliacs, and Werewolf Pandemics: Puloma Ghosh on Translating Grief into Literary Horror

By Melissa Lozada-Oliva | June 12, 2024

Deirdre Madden on Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | June 12, 2024

Bill Eville on Fatherhood

By History of Literature | June 12, 2024

Robert Pinsky! Porochista Khakpour! Rufi Thorpe! 26 new books out today.

Robert Pinsky! Porochista Khakpour! Rufi Thorpe! 26 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | June 11, 2024

What Jane Austen’s Work Can Tell Us About the British Imperial Project

What Jane Austen’s Work Can Tell Us About the British Imperial Project

Corinne Fowler Considers the Colonial Legacy of the English Countryside

By Corinne Fowler | June 11, 2024

Low Poetics: On Cubism, Disability, and the Distance Between the Reader and the Poem

Low Poetics: On Cubism, Disability, and the Distance Between the Reader and the Poem

D.S. Waldman Considers the Work of John Ashbery, Ben Lerner, and Georges Braque

By D.S. Waldman | June 11, 2024

Robin Sloan on Creating an Expansive and Immersive Sci-Fi Universe

Robin Sloan on Creating an Expansive and Immersive Sci-Fi Universe

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of "Moonbound"

By Jane Ciabattari | June 11, 2024

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

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

Featuring Uchenna Awoke, Lauren Mechling, Iris Mwanza, and More

By Teddy Wayne | June 11, 2024

Maggie Doherty on Sharing Art and Ideas

Maggie Doherty on Sharing Art and Ideas

In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics

By The Critic and Her Publics | June 11, 2024

Genre Euphoria: Why More Poets Should Read (and Write) Romance Fiction

Genre Euphoria: Why More Poets Should Read (and Write) Romance Fiction

Elaina Ellis on the Basic Human Need to Tell Love Stories of All Stripes

By Elaina Ellis | June 10, 2024

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