5 Book Reviews to Read This Weeks

5 Book Reviews to Read This Weeks

“The collection reads like a juvenile burn book, totally uninterested in the world outside her group chat.”

By Book Marks | April 11, 2024

Opa! It’s All Greek to Me! Subverting the Tropes of Greek Culture in Media

Opa! It’s All Greek to Me! Subverting the Tropes of Greek Culture in Media

Henriette Lazaridis on Rachel Cusk, “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” and Writing a Novel Where Greeks Speak for Themselves

By Henriette Lazaridis | April 11, 2024

Against Journaling: Dennis Tang on the Joys of Not Writing It All Down

Against Journaling: Dennis Tang on the Joys of Not Writing It All Down

“Don’t be afraid of losing touch with the past. After all, you were there, living it.”

By Dennis Tang | April 11, 2024

Phil Jones on Why We Read Samuel Johnson

Phil Jones on Why We Read Samuel Johnson

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | April 11, 2024

S.L. Wisenberg on How We Talk About Cancer

S.L. Wisenberg on How We Talk About Cancer

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | April 11, 2024

Real People, Real Pain: On the Ethics of Telling True Stories of Trauma

Real People, Real Pain: On the Ethics of Telling True Stories of Trauma

Philip Eil Considers the Potentially Sensitive Nature of Book Promotion

By Philip Eil | April 10, 2024

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What Do You Get When You Cross the Contemporary Novel with Nature Writing?

By Fiona Williams | April 10, 2024

Oh, Queer Canada: A Reading List for Americans in Search of LGBTQ Canadian History

By Rose Sutherland | April 10, 2024

A Woman Out of Time: Rebecca Solnit on Mary Shelley’s Dystopian Sci-Fi Novel The Last Man

By Rebecca Solnit | April 9, 2024

Katrina Carrasco on the Importance of Female Physicality in Fiction

Katrina Carrasco on the Importance of Female Physicality in Fiction

“I’ll always celebrate tall, strong women in my novels—partly as a love letter to myself, and partly as one to readers.”

By Katrina Carrasco | April 9, 2024

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

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

Featuring Caoilinn Hughes, Victoria Chang, Elissa Strauss and More

By Teddy Wayne | April 9, 2024

In Words and Beyond Them: Jane Hirshfield on the Transformative Art of Translation

In Words and Beyond Them: Jane Hirshfield on the Transformative Art of Translation

“The act of translating opens the psyche’s innermost rooms to the unknown.”

By Jane Hirshfield | April 9, 2024

The Beatles! Natasha Trethewey! Librarians’ secret lives! 24 new books out today.

The Beatles! Natasha Trethewey! Librarians’ secret lives! 24 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 9, 2024

Jo Livingstone on Not Believing in Anachronism

Jo Livingstone on Not Believing in Anachronism

In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics

By The Critic and Her Publics | April 9, 2024

Clare Beams on Harmful Good Intentions

Clare Beams on Harmful Good Intentions

In Conversation with Lindsay Hunter on I'm a Writer But  

By I'm a Writer But | April 9, 2024

Lost in Translation: Unpacking the Shohei Ohtani Scandal

Lost in Translation: Unpacking the Shohei Ohtani Scandal

Emily Nemens On the All-But-Invisible Role of Interpreters, in Literature and in Baseball

By Emily Nemens | April 8, 2024

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