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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
“Its quivering rhythms mimic those of a slow desert wind, picking up dust, chaff, and the bones of small mammals.”
By
Book Marks
| December 11, 2025
Did Jane Austen Invent the Wellness Guy?
Chris Cohen on the Self-Optimization Obsessions of Austen’s Male Characters
By
Chris Cohen
| December 11, 2025
What It Was Like to Publish a Book in This Crazy Year, 2025
Maris Kreizman Looks Back at the Year That Was
By
Maris Kreizman
| December 11, 2025
“Open Me Carefully.” Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson
A Look Inside the Poet’s Personal Life and the Making of Her Mythical Reclusiveness
By
Chronicle Books
| December 11, 2025
The Annotated Nightstand: What Zefyr Lisowski is Reading Now, and Next
Featuring Dorothy Allison, Aria Aber, Cameron Awkward-Rich, and More
By
Diana Arterian
| December 11, 2025
Maya Angelou Book Award Winner Alison C. Rollins on the Poetics of Sound, Space, and Image
In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction
By
Fiction Non Fiction
| December 11, 2025
Best Reviewed
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What Happens When Gen Z Encounters Catullus’s Filthiest Poem?
By
Rachel DeWoskin
| December 10, 2025
The Publishing Industry is Capricious... Gamble on Yourself
By
A. Natasha Joukovsky
| December 10, 2025
Studies in Unmeaning: On Thomas Pynchon’s Detective Fictions
By
Adrian McKinty
| December 10, 2025
One Man’s Trash: Reflections on a Failed Novel
Sheldon Costa on Trash Bashing, Working With His Hands, and Extricating His Writing from His Self-Worth
By
Sheldon Costa
| December 10, 2025
On the Haunted History of Apartheid in South Africa
Nadia Davids Spends Time in the Company of Ghosts
By
Nadia Davids
| December 10, 2025
The 29 Best (Old) Books We Read in 2025
Other Stuff We Read This Year
By
Literary Hub
| December 9, 2025
Why Joan Didion Hated the Police
Scott Saul on a Little-Known Essay by California’s Famed Chronicler of the Counterculture
By
Scott Saul
| December 9, 2025
Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers
Featuring Elizabeth McCracken, Nadia Davids, Tarpley Hitt and More
By
Teddy Wayne
| December 9, 2025
The Far Side of Disaster:
On Virginia Woolf’s Unacknowledged Plague Novel
To the Lighthouse
Colin Dickey: “It reminds me that others have struggled with how to write through the end of the world.”
By
Colin Dickey
| December 9, 2025
Adam Morgan, John Berryman, Tilar J. Mazzeo, and more: 11 new books out today!
By
Julia Hass
| December 9, 2025
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New Series to Watch this Holiday Weekend
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My First Thriller: John Grisham
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Rick Pullen
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"a succession of nine quietly horrifying stories from a dystopian pastorally radiant England The novella…"