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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“She will not let us have the happy ending we might prefer.”

By Book Marks | September 12, 2024

Ten Books That Reveal Myanmar for the Complex Mosaic It Is

Ten Books That Reveal Myanmar for the Complex Mosaic It Is

Elizabeth Shick Recommends Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint, Karen Connelly, Charmaine Craig and More

By Elizabeth Shick | September 12, 2024

Why Aimie K. Runyan Spent Her First Literary Paycheck on a Coffee Mug

Why Aimie K. Runyan Spent Her First Literary Paycheck on a Coffee Mug

The Author of “Mademoiselle Eiffel” Reflects on the Self-Gift From Her Book Advance that Keeps Her Going

By Aimie K. Runyan | September 11, 2024

Finding the Strangeness in the Everyday: A Conversation With Srikanth Reddy

Finding the Strangeness in the Everyday: A Conversation With Srikanth Reddy

Peter Mishler Talks to the Author of “Underworld Lit”

By Peter Mishler | September 11, 2024

17 Novels You Need to Read This Fall

17 Novels You Need to Read This Fall

Reading Recommendations from the Lit Hub Staff

By Emily Temple | September 10, 2024

Timeless and Urgent: On Ha Jin’s <em>Waiting</em> and the Mercy of the Arbitrary

Timeless and Urgent: On Ha Jin’s Waiting and the Mercy of the Arbitrary

Rachel Khong: “We can’t help but wonder about the arbitrary demands and strictures placed on these individuals: What was it all for?”

By Rachel Khong | September 10, 2024

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

By Teddy Wayne | September 10, 2024

Modern Gun Ownership is Just Another Consumer Fantasy About Empowerment

By Alex Trimble Young | September 9, 2024

Anna Marie Tendler on Self-Doubt, Hospitals, and Living on Her Own Terms

By Cat Marnell | September 9, 2024

Silence is Power: Sara Nović on Joanne Greenberg’s <em>In This Sign</em>

Silence is Power: Sara Nović on Joanne Greenberg’s In This Sign

“The quietness... forces readers to reckon with the intricacies of deaf people as people.”

By Sara Nović | September 9, 2024

Dunya Mikhail Talks Mythology, Translating Her Own Poetry, and Exploring the Past Through Objects

Dunya Mikhail Talks Mythology, Translating Her Own Poetry, and Exploring the Past Through Objects

The Author of “Tablets: Secrets of the Clay” in Conversation with Poets.org

By Literary Hub | September 9, 2024

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 Rachel Kushner, Garth Greenwell, Weimar Germany, and More

By Book Marks | September 6, 2024

Six Writers on Getting Words on the Page

Six Writers on Getting Words on the Page

In Which There’s No Wrong Way to Write a Book

By Literary Hub | September 6, 2024

What T.S. Eliot’s Letters to Emily Hale Reveal About the Poet’s Romantic Past

What T.S. Eliot’s Letters to Emily Hale Reveal About the Poet’s Romantic Past

Sara Fitzgerald on Unrequited Love and a Recently Declassified Epistolary Correspondence

By Sara Fitzgerald | September 6, 2024

An Ode to the Ode: Lory Bedikian on How the Form Helped Her Grieve and Grow

An Ode to the Ode: Lory Bedikian on How the Form Helped Her Grieve and Grow

The Author of “Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body” Explores the Many Meanings and Possibilities of a Poetic Category

By Lory Bedikian | September 6, 2024

American Nightmare: Alice Driver on the Immigrants Who Risked Their Lives at a Meatpacking Plant During Covid

American Nightmare: Alice Driver on the Immigrants Who Risked Their Lives at a Meatpacking Plant During Covid

The Author of “Life and Death of the American Worker” in Conversation with Sarah Viren

By Sarah Viren | September 5, 2024

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