The 10 Best Book Reviews </br>of 2023

The 10 Best Book Reviews
of 2023

Parul Sehgal on James Ellroy, Merve Emre on Italo Calvino, Namwali Serpell on "hit me" Novels, and More

By Adam Morgan | December 11, 2023

Canterbury Tales Down the Centuries: How Each Era Has Reinvented Chaucer

Canterbury Tales Down the Centuries: How Each Era Has Reinvented Chaucer

Marion Turner on the Dramatically Different Ways We Have Read The Canterbury Tales

By Marion Turner | December 11, 2023

Embracing Uncertainty: In Defense of Question-Seeking Criticism

Embracing Uncertainty: In Defense of Question-Seeking Criticism

Helen Molesworth on the Uses and Functionality of the Arts and Humanities

By Helen Molesworth | December 11, 2023

Why We Need New Stories About the Ocean

Why We Need New Stories About the Ocean

Natalie Hart on the Urgency of Literature That Brings the Ocean into the Climate Story

By Natalie Hart | December 11, 2023

Kelly Weber on Kinship with Nature, Asexuality, and Writing “Untraditional” Erotic Poems

Kelly Weber on Kinship with Nature, Asexuality, and Writing “Untraditional” Erotic Poems

The Author of If You Bury the Birds in My Pelvis in Conversation with Poets.org

By Literary Hub | December 11, 2023

The Best Reviewed Fiction of 2023

The Best Reviewed Fiction of 2023

Featuring Anne Enright, Lorrie Moore, Zadie Smith, Anne Patchett, Colson Whitehead, and More

By Book Marks | December 10, 2023

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945
  • Under Water
  • Paradiso 17
  • The Plans I Have for You
  • In Search of Now: The Science of the Present Moment
  • Stephen Sondheim: Art Isn't Easy

Our Favorite Lit Hub Stories from 2023

By Literary Hub | December 7, 2023

The Best Reviewed Nonfiction of 2023

By Book Marks | December 7, 2023

Shadow Face: Jessica Moore on the Dissolving Margins of Motherhood

By Jessica Moore | December 7, 2023

Black Lives Matter in the Classroom: A Roundtable on Teaching CRT and Disputed Literature Today

Black Lives Matter in the Classroom: A Roundtable on Teaching CRT and Disputed Literature Today

Lynnette Mawhinney Speaks with Cicely Lewis, Christopher Stewart, Shamika J. Simpson, Ahmed Ismail Yusuf, and Holly Y. McGee

By Literary Hub | December 7, 2023

Naomi Alderman On Tech Billionaires as Today's Villains

Naomi Alderman On Tech Billionaires as Today's Villains

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | December 7, 2023

Taylor Byas on Writing About Her Hometown

Taylor Byas on Writing About Her Hometown

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | December 7, 2023

Marxism and Mistletoe: A Holiday List of Books for the Lefties in Your Life

Marxism and Mistletoe: A Holiday List of Books for the Lefties in Your Life

Kristen R. Ghodsee Recommends Cory Doctorow, Malaika Jabali, Angela Saini, and More

By Kristen R. Ghodsee | December 6, 2023

My Year in Reading Children’s Books

My Year in Reading Children’s Books

Sara B. Franklin Recommends Cecilia Ruiz, Steve McCarthy, and Many More

By Sara B. Franklin | December 6, 2023

<em>Eileen</em> Complicates the Relationship at the Heart of Ottessa Moshfegh’s Novel

Eileen Complicates the Relationship at the Heart of Ottessa Moshfegh’s Novel

Emmeline Clein Digs in to the New Adaptation, from Page to Screen

By Emmeline Clein | December 6, 2023

Two Poems by Marlon Hacla, Translated by Kristine Ong Muslim

Two Poems by Marlon Hacla, Translated by Kristine Ong Muslim

From the Collection Glossolalia

By Marlon Hacla | December 6, 2023

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