5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“She takes her cues from writers like John Cheever, Richard Yates and Virginia Woolf, all masters of the repressed and unsayable.”

By Book Marks | May 15, 2025

I Refuse to Support My Friend’s Crappy Self-Published Novel: Am I the Asshole?

I Refuse to Support My Friend’s Crappy Self-Published Novel: Am I the Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | May 15, 2025

Monica Macansantos on Finding Her Voice and Reuniting with Her Father Through Used Books

Monica Macansantos on Finding Her Voice and Reuniting with Her Father Through Used Books

The Author of “Returning to My Father’s Kitchen” Recalls Visiting Book Markets in the Philippines

By Monica Macansantos | May 15, 2025

Mirza Waheed on India, Pakistan, and the Literature of Partition

Mirza Waheed on India, Pakistan, and the Literature of Partition

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 15, 2025

Here are the guest editors (and covers) for the Best American Series 2025.

Here are the guest editors (and covers) for the Best American Series 2025.

By Literary Hub | May 14, 2025

Across the Clarissa-Verse: On 100 Years of <em>Mrs. Dalloway</em>

Across the Clarissa-Verse: On 100 Years of Mrs. Dalloway

Marisa Charpentier Considers the Multitudes Contained in a Single Day in June

By Marisa Charpentier | May 14, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Pelican Child: Stories
  • Languages of Home: Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives 1975-2025
  • On the Calculation of Volume (Book III)
  • The Ferryman and His Wife
  • Empire of Orgasm: Sex, Power, and the Downfall of a Wellness Cult
  • Mexico: A 500-Year History

What a Plunge! Teaching Mrs. Dalloway to High Schoolers in 2025

By Mia Manzulli | May 14, 2025

Drafting Mrs. Dalloway: How Virginia Woolf Started Her Masterpiece

By Mark Hussey | May 14, 2025

The Cosmic Library on Reflection and Refraction

By The Cosmic Library | May 14, 2025

Neither Plot Nor Character, But... Something Else? Ten Novels with Mind-Blowing Structures

Neither Plot Nor Character, But... Something Else? Ten Novels with Mind-Blowing Structures

Lincoln Michel Recommends Alejandro Zambra, Renee Gladman, Percival Everett and More

By Lincoln Michel | May 13, 2025

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

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

Featuring Lincoln Michel, Susanna Kwan, Domenica Ruta and More

By Teddy Wayne | May 13, 2025

Karen E. Bender on Channeling Contemporary Anxieties Through Speculative Fiction

Karen E. Bender on Channeling Contemporary Anxieties Through Speculative Fiction

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “The Words of Dr. L.and Other Stories”

By Jane Ciabattari | May 13, 2025

Rebecca Solnit! Ocean Vuong! Axe murders! 27 new books out today.

Rebecca Solnit! Ocean Vuong! Axe murders! 27 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | May 13, 2025

What If It <em>Is</em> Happening Here? Lessons From the Anti-Fascist Novel in Trump’s Second Term

What If It Is Happening Here? Lessons From the Anti-Fascist Novel in Trump’s Second Term

David Renton Rereads Lewis and Roth in a New Era of Authoritarianism

By David Renton | May 12, 2025

One great short story to read today: madeline Ffitch’s “Seeing Through Maps”

One great short story to read today: madeline Ffitch’s “Seeing Through Maps”

By Jonny Diamond | May 9, 2025

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 Daniel Kehlmann, Amanda Hess, Florence Knapp, and More

By Book Marks | May 9, 2025

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