Literary Hub
Literary Hub
  • Craft and Criticism
    • Literary Criticism
    • Craft and Advice
    • In Conversation
    • On Translation
  • Fiction and Poetry
    • Short Story
    • From the Novel
    • Poem
  • News and Culture
    • History
    • Science
    • Politics
    • Biography
    • Memoir
    • Food
    • Technology
    • Bookstores and Libraries
    • Film and TV
    • Travel
    • Music
    • Art and Photography
    • The Hub
    • Style
    • Design
    • Sports
  • BUY A HAT
  • Lit Hub Radio
    • The Lit Hub Podcast
    • Awakeners
    • Fiction/Non/Fiction
    • The Critic and Her Publics
    • Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
    • Memoir Nation
    • Beyond the Page
    • First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
    • Thresholds
    • The Cosmic Library
    • Culture Schlock
  • Reading Lists
    • The Best of the Decade
  • Book Marks
    • Best Reviewed Books
  • CrimeReads
    • True Crime
    • The Daily Thrill
  • Log In
  • Craft and Criticism
  • Fiction and Poetry
  • News and Culture
  • Lit Hub Radio
  • Reading Lists
  • Book Marks
  • CrimeReads
  • Log In
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Anne Enright on Colin Barrett, Juan Gabriel Vásquez on Fernanda Melchor, Molly Young on John Waters, and more

By Book Marks | May 5, 2022

Alex George on the “Absolutely Extraordinary Journey” of Running a Book Festival

Alex George on the “Absolutely Extraordinary Journey” of Running a Book Festival

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 5, 2022

On the Post-Apocalyptic Landscape of Walter Kappacher’s <em>Palace of Flies</em>

On the Post-Apocalyptic Landscape of Walter Kappacher’s Palace of Flies

Michael P. Steinberg Locates Echoes and Ghosts in a Broken Austria

By Michael P. Steinberg | May 5, 2022

<em>Guerre</em>, a Louis-Ferdinand Celine manuscript once thought lost, will be published in France.

Guerre, a Louis-Ferdinand Celine manuscript once thought lost, will be published in France.

By Jonny Diamond | May 4, 2022

The Girl Who Left, The Woman Who Stayed: Finding Georgia O’Keeffe in a Small Southern Town

The Girl Who Left, The Woman Who Stayed: Finding Georgia O’Keeffe in a Small Southern Town

Megan Mayhew Bergman on Where We Find Our Home

By Megan Mayhew Bergman | May 4, 2022

The Annotated Nightstand: What Renee Gladman is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Renee Gladman is Reading Now and Next

A New (at Lit Hub) Series by Diana Arterian

By Diana Arterian | May 4, 2022

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Rest of Our Lives
  • Call Me Ishmaelle
  • Homeschooled: A Memoir
  • The Spy in the Archive: How One Man Tried to Kill the KGB
  • Watching Over Her
  • American Reich: A Murder in Orange County, Neo-Nazis, and a New Age of Hate

Memoirs with Benefits: A Reading List of Hybrid Narratives

By Courtney Maum | May 4, 2022

Why Queer Stories Deserve Happy Endings

By Susie Dumond | May 4, 2022

“We’re the Fools in Charge of Forgiveness.” Steve Almond on the Task of the Social Novelist

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | May 4, 2022

Why We Turn to Myths to Untangle Old Problems

Why We Turn to Myths to Untangle Old Problems

Jennifer Saint on Feminist Retellings of Ancient Stories

By Jennifer Saint | May 4, 2022

The Story That Saved Me: On Writing My Way Out of a Life That No Longer Felt Like Mine

The Story That Saved Me: On Writing My Way Out of a Life That No Longer Felt Like Mine

Lauren McBrayer’s Novel Showed up Exactly When She Needed It

By Lauren McBrayer | May 4, 2022

15 great paperback books coming out this May.

15 great paperback books coming out this May.

By Katie Yee | May 3, 2022

A Shakespearean Study Guide for <em>The Northman</em>

A Shakespearean Study Guide for The Northman

Saxo and Shakespeare, Masculine Fantasies, and Racist Fictions in Robert Eggers’s New Blockbuster

By The Why Shakespeare? Course | May 3, 2022

Following the Workings of My Mind: Gerald Murnane Rereads His First Novel

Following the Workings of My Mind: Gerald Murnane Rereads His First Novel

The Writer Revisits Tamarisk Row, Nearly 50 Years Later

By Gerald Murnane | May 3, 2022

Hernan Diaz: “I Wouldn’t Be the Person I am Without Borges.”

Hernan Diaz: “I Wouldn’t Be the Person I am Without Borges.”

The Author of Trust Talks to Jane Ciabattari

By Jane Ciabattari | May 3, 2022

On the Groundbreaking Art of Bascove’s Book Covers

On the Groundbreaking Art of Bascove’s Book Covers

From J.M. Coetzee to Alice Walker, a Book Designer Who Took Risks

By Rebecca Rego Barry | May 3, 2022

« First‹ Previous185186187188189190191192193Next ›Last »
Page 189 of 350
    • Why to Watch This January: 'The Secret Agent'January 15, 2026 by Radha Vatsal
    • A Brief, Disturbing History of Universal MonstersJanuary 15, 2026 by Keith Roysdon
    • Big Pimpin: Pimps in Black Pop Culture from the 1970s to the Early 2000sJanuary 15, 2026 by Michael Gonzales
    • The Rest of Our Lives
    • The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
    • "Poignant Tender The final line of em The Rest of Our Lives em is by…"
  • Literary Hub

    Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature


    Masthead

    About

    Sign Up For Our Newsletters

    How to Pitch Lit Hub

    Advertisers: Contact Us

    Privacy Policy

    Support Lit Hub - Become A Member