12 new books to get your hands on this week.

12 new books to get your hands on this week.

By Katie Yee | February 21, 2023

The Battle for the Black Soul: On the Poetic Embodiment of the Black Preacher

The Battle for the Black Soul: On the Poetic Embodiment of the Black Preacher

Gregory Pardlo Contextualizes James Weldon Johnson’s God’s Trombones for the Contemporary Era

By Gregory Pardlo | February 21, 2023

Matthew Salesses: Setting Restrictions Leads You to Narrative Possibilities

Matthew Salesses: Setting Restrictions Leads You to Narrative Possibilities

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | February 21, 2023

Jai Chakrabarti on Fostering Community Through Storytelling

Jai Chakrabarti on Fostering Community Through Storytelling

The Author of A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | February 21, 2023

Louise Dennys: Stories from a Publishing Legend

Louise Dennys: Stories from a Publishing Legend

This Week on Beyond the Page: The Best of the Sun Valley Writers‘ Conference

By Sun Valley Writers' Conference | February 21, 2023

“I Start, You Finish.” Nita Prose on Letting the Reader Fill in the Blanks

“I Start, You Finish.” Nita Prose on Letting the Reader Fill in the Blanks

In Conversation with Christopher Hermelin on So Many Damn Books

By So Many Damn Books | February 21, 2023

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Annie Proulx Stories: New and Selected
  • The Intangibles: Friendship, Fatherhood, and the Love of the Game
  • The Telephone: A New History
  • No Such Thing as Monday
  • O Now!
  • Don't Stop Snowing
  • The Key Biscayne Affair
  • Vocal Break: On Women, Music, and Power
  • Aristocracy, American Style: Class Privilege and the Persistence of Elite Power
  • Ten Lives: How What We Have Shapes Who We Are

James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche

By History of Literature | February 21, 2023

Some of the Best Stories from a Century of Weird Tales (That You Can Read Online)

By Emily Temple | February 17, 2023

The Poetics of Film: Four Poets on How Cinema Influences Their Work

By Christopher Kondrich | February 17, 2023

Camonghne Felix on the Gentle Balance of Writing about Trauma

Camonghne Felix on the Gentle Balance of Writing about Trauma

"I found ways to offer the reader reprieve and safe space."

By Camonghne Felix | February 17, 2023

The Annotated Nightstand: What Courtney Maum is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Courtney Maum is Reading Now and Next

Featuring Rebecca Solnit, C.K. Chau and Colleen Hoover

By Diana Arterian | February 17, 2023

Mirror and Window Both: The Brief Superabundance of Aubrey Beardsley

Mirror and Window Both: The Brief Superabundance of Aubrey Beardsley

A. Natasha Joukovsky on the Man Whose Illustrations Nearly Outshone the Words of Oscar Wilde

By A. Natasha Joukovsky | February 16, 2023

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

1984 be like if Winston Smith had an endearing personality?"">"What would 1984 be like if Winston Smith had an endearing personality?"

By Book Marks | February 16, 2023

Chetna Maroo: “Every Time I Lost my Way, I Would Go Back to That First Page.”

Chetna Maroo: “Every Time I Lost my Way, I Would Go Back to That First Page.”

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | February 16, 2023

Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza on the Unique Pleasures of Reading in Public

Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza on the Unique Pleasures of Reading in Public

“I always carry a book with me. That way you’re never without something to do.”

By Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza | February 15, 2023

A Bizarre Pattern of Bridges: How—and Why—Baudelaire Showed Up Throughout My Fiction

A Bizarre Pattern of Bridges: How—and Why—Baudelaire Showed Up Throughout My Fiction

Gunnhild Øyehaug on Paying Homage to Literary Legends

By Gunnhild Øyehaug | February 15, 2023

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