The 10 Best Book Reviews </br>of 2023

The 10 Best Book Reviews
of 2023

Parul Sehgal on James Ellroy, Merve Emre on Italo Calvino, Namwali Serpell on "hit me" Novels, and More

By Adam Morgan | December 11, 2023

Canterbury Tales Down the Centuries: How Each Era Has Reinvented Chaucer

Canterbury Tales Down the Centuries: How Each Era Has Reinvented Chaucer

Marion Turner on the Dramatically Different Ways We Have Read The Canterbury Tales

By Marion Turner | December 11, 2023

Embracing Uncertainty: In Defense of Question-Seeking Criticism

Embracing Uncertainty: In Defense of Question-Seeking Criticism

Helen Molesworth on the Uses and Functionality of the Arts and Humanities

By Helen Molesworth | December 11, 2023

Why We Need New Stories About the Ocean

Why We Need New Stories About the Ocean

Natalie Hart on the Urgency of Literature That Brings the Ocean into the Climate Story

By Natalie Hart | December 11, 2023

Kelly Weber on Kinship with Nature, Asexuality, and Writing “Untraditional” Erotic Poems

Kelly Weber on Kinship with Nature, Asexuality, and Writing “Untraditional” Erotic Poems

The Author of If You Bury the Birds in My Pelvis in Conversation with Poets.org

By Literary Hub | December 11, 2023

Alexa Bigwarfe on Finding and Building the Community That’s Right for You

Alexa Bigwarfe on Finding and Building the Community That’s Right for You

From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | December 11, 2023

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • They
  • This Is Not About Us
  • Eradication: A Fable
  • The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief
  • The Last Kings of Hollywood: Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg—And the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema
  • End of Days: Ruby Ridge, the Apocalypse, and the Unmaking of America

The Best Reviewed Fiction of 2023

By Book Marks | December 10, 2023

Rumaan Alam on the Surreality of Seeing Leave the World Behind Come to Life on Screen

By Rumaan Alam | December 8, 2023

Plain-Spoken Performance Art: A Conversation with Laurie Anderson

By Brooke Wentz | December 8, 2023

Why Novelists Should Embrace Artificial Intelligence

Why Novelists Should Embrace Artificial Intelligence

Debbie Urbanski on the Possibility and Promise of Human-Machine Creative Collaboration

By Debbie Urbanski | December 8, 2023

Richard Hugo on Starting a Poem

Richard Hugo on Starting a Poem

“The words should not serve the subject. The subject should serve the words.”

By Richard Hugo | December 8, 2023

Good media news! Lit Hub is adding Kristen Arnett and Maris Kreizman as columnists in 2024.

Good media news! Lit Hub is adding Kristen Arnett and Maris Kreizman as columnists in 2024.

By Jonny Diamond | December 7, 2023

Our Favorite Lit Hub Stories from 2023

Our Favorite Lit Hub Stories from 2023

The Best Writing at the Site This Year, According to the Editors

By Literary Hub | December 7, 2023

The Best Reviewed Nonfiction of 2023

The Best Reviewed Nonfiction of 2023

Featuring Janet Malcolm, David Grann, Martin Luther King, Naomi Klein, and More

By Book Marks | December 7, 2023

Shadow Face: Jessica Moore on the Dissolving Margins of Motherhood

Shadow Face: Jessica Moore on the Dissolving Margins of Motherhood

“I was made dangerously permeable so my babies could be born.”

By Jessica Moore | December 7, 2023

Black Lives Matter in the Classroom: A Roundtable on Teaching CRT and Disputed Literature Today

Black Lives Matter in the Classroom: A Roundtable on Teaching CRT and Disputed Literature Today

Lynnette Mawhinney Speaks with Cicely Lewis, Christopher Stewart, Shamika J. Simpson, Ahmed Ismail Yusuf, and Holly Y. McGee

By Literary Hub | December 7, 2023

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