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 new titles by Emma Cline, Jonathan Eig, T. C. Boyle, Samantha Irby, and More

By Book Marks | May 19, 2023

How Screenwriting Can Help You Write Stronger Fiction

How Screenwriting Can Help You Write Stronger Fiction

Crystal Smith Paul Offers Craft Advice that Spans the Spectum of Genre

By Crystal Smith Paul | May 19, 2023

Why a Small-Town Record Store in Rural Pennsylvania Was My First Library

Why a Small-Town Record Store in Rural Pennsylvania Was My First Library

Jolene McIlwain on Rural America, Songwriting, and Oral Storytelling

By Jolene McIlwain | May 18, 2023

Murakami Bingo: Is Animation the Ideal Form for Adapting the “Undadaptable” Author?

Murakami Bingo: Is Animation the Ideal Form for Adapting the “Undadaptable” Author?

A Survey of Murakami Reimaginings, from Burning to Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

By Ryan Bedsaul | May 18, 2023

Announcing the Winners of the 92 Street Y Discovery Contest

Announcing the Winners of the 92 Street Y Discovery Contest

Read the Winning Poems Selected by Judges Kaveh Akbar, Tracie Morris and Simone White

By Literary Hub | May 18, 2023

Legally Literary: A Reading List of Lawyers (or Law Students) Turned Writers

Legally Literary: A Reading List of Lawyers (or Law Students) Turned Writers

Deepa Varadajan Recommends Elizabeth Strout, Mohsin Hamid, Daniyal Mueenuddin, and Many More

By Deepa Varadarajan | May 18, 2023

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Shampoo Effect
  • The Midnight Special: The Secret Prison History of American Music
  • Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep
  • On the Origin of Sex: The Weird and Wonderful Science of Reproduction
  • Devotions
  • Thundering Waters: The Toxic Legacy of Niagara Falls

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks | May 18, 2023

Anne Berest’s Best Story Came From Deep in Her Family’s Past

By Literary Hub | May 17, 2023

Just on the Horizon: Nine Utopian Books to Deprogram Our Brains

By Kristen R. Ghodsee | May 17, 2023

“I Kiss My Ghosts’ Sticky Foreheads.” Jane Wong on Poetic Ambivalence and Feeding on the Past

“I Kiss My Ghosts’ Sticky Foreheads.” Jane Wong on Poetic Ambivalence and Feeding on the Past

“Each day, I rub my eyes with poetry, bleary in foggy morning light.”

By Jane Wong | May 17, 2023

Caribbean Fiction Doesn’t Need to Be Altered for American Audiences

Caribbean Fiction Doesn’t Need to Be Altered for American Audiences

Breanne Mc Ivor Challenges Narrow Visions of Trinidad and Finds Liberation in Saying No to Simplifying Her Books for US Readers

By Breanne Mc Ivor | May 17, 2023

Expand your international reading with all 37 entries of the Eurovision Book Contest.

Expand your international reading with all 37 entries of the Eurovision Book Contest.

By Eliza Smith | May 16, 2023

24 new books to check out today.

24 new books to check out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | May 16, 2023

Abraham Verghese on Marrying Medicine With Literature

Abraham Verghese on Marrying Medicine With Literature

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of The Covenant of Water

By Jane Ciabattari | May 16, 2023

Alexis Pauline Gumbs on Audre Lorde’s <em>The Black Unicorn</em>

Alexis Pauline Gumbs on Audre Lorde’s The Black Unicorn

In Conversation for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | May 16, 2023

Emma Cline: No One Captures Memory Like Mary Gaitskill

Emma Cline: No One Captures Memory Like Mary Gaitskill

The Author of The Guest Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | May 16, 2023

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