5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The tired-looking smiley face under the dust jacket says as much as the 400-plus over-polished pages inside.”

By Book Marks | March 12, 2026

Daisy Hernández on the Myth of Citizenship

Daisy Hernández on the Myth of Citizenship

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | March 12, 2026

Blood On the Page: On <em>Jane Austen’s Period Drama</em>

Blood On the Page: On Jane Austen’s Period Drama

Devoney Looser Explores 19th-Century Attitudes About Menstruation and Women’s Health

By Devoney Looser | March 11, 2026

The Book of Michael Silverblatt

The Book of Michael Silverblatt

Logan Scherer Remembers “the Best Reader in America”

By Logan Scherer | March 11, 2026

The Art of Jealousy

The Art of Jealousy

The Cosmic Library continues its Proust season

By The Cosmic Library | March 11, 2026

Chronicling Millenial Malaise With Andrew Martin

Chronicling Millenial Malaise With Andrew Martin

Sam Axelrod Talks to the Author of Down Time

By Sam Axelrod | March 10, 2026

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
  • Repetition
  • Night Night Fawn
  • El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory
  • Gunk
  • The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary

Six Books (and One Film) About Bad Fathers

By Victoria Shorr | March 10, 2026

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

By Teddy Wayne | March 10, 2026

Karan Mahajan on Literary Tradition, Trump, and Writing Multiple Points of View

By Anna North | March 10, 2026

Andrew Martin, T Kira Madden, Karan Mahajan, and more: 21 new books out today!

Andrew Martin, T Kira Madden, Karan Mahajan, and more: 21 new books out today!

By Julia Hass | March 10, 2026

Robert Morgan on Reading <em>War and Peace</em> For the First Time

Robert Morgan on Reading War and Peace For the First Time

“I saw that the Blue Ridge Mountains were everywhere, and that the gift of fiction was to connect me to everybody.”

By Robert Morgan | March 9, 2026

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 Saba Sams, Jazmine Ulloa, Jordy Rosenberg, and more

By Book Marks | March 6, 2026

No Stars, or: Are We Reviewing Ourselves to Death?

No Stars, or: Are We Reviewing Ourselves to Death?

Lucie Britsch on the Importance of Making Art for Art’s Sake

By Lucie Britsch | March 6, 2026

Jayson Greene on Uncanny Grief and Uncanny Novels

Jayson Greene on Uncanny Grief and Uncanny Novels

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds

By Thresholds | March 6, 2026

On Shirley Jackson’s <em>The Haunting of Hill House</em> Though the Lens of Childrearing

On Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House Though the Lens of Childrearing

Lesley Jenike Considers What Motherhood Can Reveal About the Self

By Lesley Jenike | March 5, 2026

What We Lose When We Gamify Reading

What We Lose When We Gamify Reading

Marissa Levien Makes the Case for Slowing Down

By Marissa Levien | March 5, 2026

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