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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“There are two kinds of novels about American life in the digital age: panoramas and selfies.”

By Book Marks | April 25, 2024

The Problem with Giant Book Preview Lists

The Problem with Giant Book Preview Lists

Maris Kreizman on One of the Necessary Evils of Book Coverage

By Maris Kreizman | April 25, 2024

The Annotated Nightstand: What Danielle Dutton Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Danielle Dutton Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Gerald Murnane, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, Herman Melville, and Others

By Diana Arterian | April 25, 2024

Gareth Russell on Hampton Court

Gareth Russell on Hampton Court

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | April 25, 2024

Tracie McMillan on the Myth of Colorblindness

Tracie McMillan on the Myth of Colorblindness

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | April 25, 2024

Deborah Treisman on the Challenge of Identifying the American Short Story

Deborah Treisman on the Challenge of Identifying the American Short Story

This Week on The Cosmic Library with Adam Colman

By The Cosmic Library | April 24, 2024

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  • Big Kiss, Bye-Bye
  • Bad Bad Girl
  • The Ten Year Affair
  • Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
  • Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
  • Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution

How Music and Verse Can Spark Literary Passion in Reluctant Readers

By Alicia D. Williams | April 24, 2024

When Writing Your Novel (Maybe) Manifests Your Breakup

By Hazel Hayes | April 24, 2024

The Pilgrim’s (Lack of) Progress, Or, Sorry I Took So Long to Finish My Novel, Or, On the Value of Restarting

By Justin Taylor | April 23, 2024

Yan Lianke Wants You to Stop Describing Him As China’s Most Censored Author

Yan Lianke Wants You to Stop Describing Him As China’s Most Censored Author

On State Censorship, Artistic Integrity, and the Market Forces Behind Local and Global Publishing

By Yan Lianke | April 23, 2024

Torn Dresses, Frank Sinatra, Ghosts in the Loo: Judi Dench on a Lifetime of Playing Shakespeare

Torn Dresses, Frank Sinatra, Ghosts in the Loo: Judi Dench on a Lifetime of Playing Shakespeare

Judi Dench and the Actor and Director Brendan O'Hea in Conversation from Their New Book "Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent"

By Literary Hub | April 23, 2024

Jane Smiley! Judi Dench! Amy Tan on birding! 24 new books out today.

Jane Smiley! Judi Dench! Amy Tan on birding! 24 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 23, 2024

Sasha Vasilyuk on the Price of Secrecy in Russia and Ukraine

Sasha Vasilyuk on the Price of Secrecy in Russia and Ukraine

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Your Presence Is Mandatory”

By Jane Ciabattari | April 23, 2024

What Medieval Poets Can Teach Us About Climate Change, and What Evangelicals Today Get Wrong

What Medieval Poets Can Teach Us About Climate Change, and What Evangelicals Today Get Wrong

Eleanor Johnson on How Medieval Christian Writers Accepted Ecological Collapse

By Eleanor Johnson | April 22, 2024

Announcing the Winners of the 2024 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction

Announcing the Winners of the 2024 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction

Series Editor Jenny Minton Quigley on the Importance of Finding the Unusual in the Ordinary

By Jenny Minton Quigley | April 22, 2024

“Pale Fire” (Tavi’s Version): Notes on Taylor Swift and the Literature of Obsessive Fandom

“Pale Fire” (Tavi’s Version): Notes on Taylor Swift and the Literature of Obsessive Fandom

Leigh Stein Considers Tavi Gevinson’s New Zine, “Fan Fiction”

By Leigh Stein | April 19, 2024

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