5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“A novel is a minor conspiracy unto itself, a frenzied assembly of story and figures and motivations.”

By Book Marks | January 15, 2026

Questions and Crimes: Golan Haji on Art and Letters in the New Syria

Questions and Crimes: Golan Haji on Art and Letters in the New Syria

Translated and Introduced by Fady Joudah

By Golan Haji | January 15, 2026

Against Generative AI: Is Art the Last Refuge of Our Humanity?

Against Generative AI: Is Art the Last Refuge of Our Humanity?

Nick Ripatrazone on the Importance of the Creative Ego

By Nick Ripatrazone | January 15, 2026

Am I the Asshole For Having a Huge Crush on My Editor?

Am I the Asshole For Having a Huge Crush on My Editor?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About
Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | January 15, 2026

The Annotated Nightstand: What Daniyal Mueenuddin Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Daniyal Mueenuddin Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring James Joyce, Susan Orlean, Lauren Groff, and More

By Diana Arterian | January 15, 2026

Vauhini Vara and Karan Mahajan on When AI Tries to Sound Like Us

Vauhini Vara and Karan Mahajan on When AI Tries to Sound Like Us

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | January 15, 2026

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Departure(s)
  • The Flower Bearers
  • Eating Ashes
  • Every One Still Here: Stories
  • Once There Was a Town: The Memory Books of a Lost Jewish World
  • The Typewriter and the Guillotine: An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve of WWII

Is Artistic Ego a Faustian Bargain? Karl Ove Knausgaard on Plot, Narcissism, and His New Novel

By Eric Olson | January 14, 2026

A Reading List of Ersatz Mothers: Three Novels Featuring Powerful Aunts

By Sara Levine | January 14, 2026

Letters on Faith Between a Poet and a Theologian

By Miroslav Volf and Christian Wiman | January 13, 2026

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

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

Featuring Stefan Merrill Block, Nina McConigley, Ben Markovits and More

By Teddy Wayne | January 13, 2026

Madeline Cash on Writing an Absurdist Systems Novel

Madeline Cash on Writing an Absurdist Systems Novel

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of Lost Lambs

By Jane Ciabattari | January 13, 2026

Karl Ove Knausgaard, Niall Williams, Daniyal Mueenuddin, and more: 21 new books out today!

Karl Ove Knausgaard, Niall Williams, Daniyal Mueenuddin, and more: 21 new books out today!

By Julia Hass | January 13, 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 Ben Markovits, Stefan Merrill Block, Xiaolu Guo, and More

By Book Marks | January 9, 2026

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“A propulsive, witty takedown of insufferable hand-wringers who’ve managed to ruin even sex.”

By Book Marks | January 8, 2026

Matthew Pearl on What We’ll Do For the Prize

Matthew Pearl on What We’ll Do For the Prize

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | January 8, 2026

SI SI SI SI SI: On Fascist Passions in Mussolini’s Italy

SI SI SI SI SI: On Fascist Passions in Mussolini’s Italy

Tia Glista Considers Mussolini: Son of the Century and The Silver Book

By Tia Glista | January 7, 2026

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