5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The two accounts speak for the two (dis)United States, one with nothing left to lose and one afraid of losing everything.”

By Book Marks | March 16, 2023

Poetry in Three Dimensions: Sarah Ruhl on Bringing the Words of Max Ritvo to the Theater

Poetry in Three Dimensions: Sarah Ruhl on Bringing the Words of Max Ritvo to the Theater

“Let this all be poetry!”

By Sarah Ruhl | March 16, 2023

Just the Right Book: What We’re Excited About This Week

Just the Right Book: What We’re Excited About This Week

Recommendations from Roxanne Coady and Bill Goldstein

By Just the Right Book | March 16, 2023

Editor-Turned-Author Jenny Jackson on the Other Side of the Editorial Process

Editor-Turned-Author Jenny Jackson on the Other Side of the Editorial Process

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | March 16, 2023

Gina Frangello on the Editorial Omniscient and Why We Should All Be Using it

Gina Frangello on the Editorial Omniscient and Why We Should All Be Using it

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | March 16, 2023

Ann Napolitano: Offer Yourself Grace When the Writing is Hard

Ann Napolitano: Offer Yourself Grace When the Writing is Hard

The Author of Hello Beautiful on Writer’s Block, Loving Basketball, and Bad Advice

By Ann Napolitano | March 15, 2023

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Joyride: A Memoir
  • A Guardian and a Thief
  • Minor Black Figures
  • True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen
  • The Wayfinder
  • Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat To) the Modern Dictionary

Skeletons in the Closet: On Mad Men and White America’s Willful Amnesia

By Kelly Shetron | March 15, 2023

“This Boy is Going to Be a Writer.” Remembering Paul La Farge’s Childhood

By Wendy Walker | March 15, 2023

Growing Up Queer: A Coming-of-Age Reading List

By Richard Mirabella | March 15, 2023

On Millennial Writers and the Need for New Narratives of Work

On Millennial Writers and the Need for New Narratives of Work

Bryony Lau Considers the Reinvention of the First Job Memoir

By Bryony Lau | March 15, 2023

Appropriating Their Way Into Existence: How Black Writers Upended Autofiction

Appropriating Their Way Into Existence: How Black Writers Upended Autofiction

DK Nnuro on the Power of Mimicry and Subversion in the Black Literary Tradition

By DK Nnuro | March 15, 2023

Sarah Thankam Mathews on Her Brush with Mortality and the “Sourdough Starter of Ego Death”

Sarah Thankam Mathews on Her Brush with Mortality and the “Sourdough Starter of Ego Death”

In Conversation with Guest Host Mira Jacob on Thresholds

By Thresholds | March 15, 2023

Kathy Fagan on the Poetic Power of “Misusing” Language

Kathy Fagan on the Poetic Power of “Misusing” Language

Peter Mishler Talks With the Author of Bad Hobby and Sycamore

By Peter Mishler | March 15, 2023

30 Books Critics Think You Should Read Right Now

30 Books Critics Think You Should Read Right Now

NBCC Board Members Review This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists

By Literary Hub | March 14, 2023

How To Find a Charming Narrator in a Self-Conscious Age

How To Find a Charming Narrator in a Self-Conscious Age

Cathleen Schine on Framing Narratives and Trusting the Reader

By Cathleen Schine | March 14, 2023

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

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

In Conversation With Victor LaValle, Szilvia Molnar, Cecile Pin, and More

By Teddy Wayne | March 14, 2023

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