What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring Elizabeth Gilbert, Sarah Moss, Stephen Greenblatt, and More

By Book Marks | September 12, 2025

Writer, Resistance Fighter, and Kafka’s First Translator: Milena Jesenská, Forgotten No More

Writer, Resistance Fighter, and Kafka’s First Translator: Milena Jesenská, Forgotten No More

Christine Estima on Breathing Fictional Life Into a Long-Overlooked Literary Figure

By Christine Estima | September 12, 2025

The Joy of Reading Books About Books

The Joy of Reading Books About Books

Susan Coll Recommends John Tottenham, Emily Henry, R.F. Kuang, and More

By Susan Coll | September 12, 2025

How Adam Zagajewski “Accidentally“ Wrote the Definitive 9/11 Poem

How Adam Zagajewski “Accidentally“ Wrote the Definitive 9/11 Poem

Elaine L. Wang on “Try to Praise the Mutilated World”

By Elaine L. Wang | September 11, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Anyone making the case for Hiroshima and Nagasaki’s annihilation then is making the case for our annihilation now.”

By Book Marks | September 11, 2025

Jessica Francis Kane on Penelope Fitzgerald in Mexico

Jessica Francis Kane on Penelope Fitzgerald in Mexico

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | September 11, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • This Is Where the Serpent Lives
  • Lost Lambs
  • Winter: The Story of a Season
  • The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
  • The Hitch
  • Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China

On the Conservatism of Contemporary Literary Fiction

By Nathaniel Moore | September 10, 2025

What Money Really Means in Jane Austen’s Work

By John Mullan | September 10, 2025

Connecting the Dots: On Creating Fiction from Facts

By Beth Kephart | September 10, 2025

Anne Enright on J.G. Farrell's <em>Troubles</em>

Anne Enright on J.G. Farrell's Troubles

In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | September 10, 2025

Rachel Kushner on the 10th Anniversary of Kim Gordon’s <em>Girl in a Band</em>

Rachel Kushner on the 10th Anniversary of Kim Gordon’s Girl in a Band

“Distance is key to the power of her performance. But it’s key to her offstage life as well.”

By Rachel Kushner | September 9, 2025

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

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

Featuring Jade Chang, Adam Nicolson, E. Y. Zhao and More

By Teddy Wayne | September 9, 2025

The Case for Polyamory: Alejandro Varela on Writing a Novel That Questions Everything

The Case for Polyamory: Alejandro Varela on Writing a Novel That Questions Everything

“Once society’s fallibility becomes apparent, everything else comes into question.”

By Alejandro Varela | September 9, 2025

Taking Center Stage: Eight Novels That Celebrate Black Performance

Taking Center Stage: Eight Novels That Celebrate Black Performance

Lauren Morrow Recommends Percival Everett, Zadie Smith, Nicole Cuffy, and More

By Lauren Morrow | September 9, 2025

Elizabeth Gilbert! Mick Herron! Sarah Moss! 24 new books out today.

Elizabeth Gilbert! Mick Herron! Sarah Moss! 24 new books out today.

By Julia Hass | September 9, 2025

15 Novels You Need to Read This Fall

15 Novels You Need to Read This Fall

Recommendations from Your Friendly Lit Hub Editors

By Emily Temple | September 8, 2025

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