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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“I’ve seen sex written about with passion and dispassion, but seldom in the same book, and never in the same sentence.”

By Book Marks | January 30, 2025

As the World Burns, There’s Nothing Wrong With a Little Escapism

As the World Burns, There’s Nothing Wrong With a Little Escapism

Maris Kreizman on Finding the Art to Free Her From Her Phone

By Maris Kreizman | January 30, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Pádraig Ó Tuama is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Pádraig Ó Tuama is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Margaret Atwood, Feargal Ó Béarra, Vona Groarke, and Others

By Diana Arterian | January 30, 2025

25 books out in paperback this February!

25 books out in paperback this February!

By Gabrielle Bellot | January 30, 2025

Lan Samantha Chang on the Risks and Rewards of Literary Personas

Lan Samantha Chang on the Risks and Rewards of Literary Personas

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | January 30, 2025

What If Instead of Making Paperclips We Asked an AI Super-Intelligence to Make Us All Happy?

What If Instead of Making Paperclips We Asked an AI Super-Intelligence to Make Us All Happy?

Deni Ellis Béchard Considers the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Worlds Fictional and Real

By Deni Ellis Béchard | January 29, 2025

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How an Obscure German Noblewoman Influenced the Way Anne Frank Wrote Her Diary

By Ruth Franklin | January 29, 2025

André Alexis on Martha Baillie's There Is No Blue

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | January 29, 2025

How Literature Predicted and Portrayed the Atom Bomb

By Dorian Lynskey | January 28, 2025

How Black and White America Reacted to Maya Angelou’s <em>I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings</em>

How Black and White America Reacted to Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Scott W. Stern on the Reception of an American Classic and the Birth of a Renaissance of Black Women Writers

By Scott W. Stern | January 28, 2025

Neko Case! Imani Perry! Rachel Carson’s Queer Life! 27 new books out today.

Neko Case! Imani Perry! Rachel Carson’s Queer Life! 27 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | January 28, 2025

Emily Greenhouse on the Whole Self

Emily Greenhouse on the Whole Self

In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics

By The Critic and Her Publics | January 28, 2025

Lila Shapiro on the Allegations Against Neil Gaiman

Lila Shapiro on the Allegations Against Neil Gaiman

A Special Episode of “The Lit Hub Podcast”

By The Lit Hub Podcast | January 27, 2025

“Anarchism Means That You Should Be Free.” On the Literature of Liberation

“Anarchism Means That You Should Be Free.” On the Literature of Liberation

Ed Simon Considers the Life Alexander Berkman, Anarchist, Would-Be Assassin, and 19th-Century Luigi Mangione

By Ed Simon | January 27, 2025

Why Absolute Truth is Still Worth Pursuing In a Narrative-Driven World

Why Absolute Truth is Still Worth Pursuing In a Narrative-Driven World

Jay Nicorvo on Separating Fact From Perception While Writing a True Crime Memoir

By Jay Nicorvo | January 27, 2025

Jack Torrance and Me: On Writing and Self-Loathing in <em>The Shining</em>

Jack Torrance and Me: On Writing and Self-Loathing in The Shining

Maggie Su: "Just as part of Jack will always remain at the Overlook, my shadow is still part of me."

By Maggie Su | January 27, 2025

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