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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“It offers something darker, colder, more fraught, and ultimately, singular and transcendent.”

By Book Marks | June 27, 2024

The Annotated Nightstand: What Tara M. Stringfellow Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Tara M. Stringfellow Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Warsan Shire, Ann Patchett, Melissa Mogollon, and Others

By Diana Arterian | June 27, 2024

Akwaeke Emezi Doesn’t Outline Books and Waits for Their Cat to Sleep Before Writing

Akwaeke Emezi Doesn’t Outline Books and Waits for Their Cat to Sleep Before Writing

The Author of “Little Rot” Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | June 27, 2024

Maxim Loskutoff on the Unabomber and the Myth of the American West

Maxim Loskutoff on the Unabomber and the Myth of the American West

In Conversation with V.V. Ganeshananthan and Matt Gallagher on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | June 27, 2024

How a Small Press Poetry Contest Launched Samuel Beckett’s Career

How a Small Press Poetry Contest Launched Samuel Beckett’s Career

Adam Smyth on Nancy Cunard, the Woman Who First Discovered the Future Nobel Laureate

By Adam Smyth | June 26, 2024

Generation Franchise: <br>Why Writers Are Forced to Become Brands (and Why That’s Bad)

Generation Franchise:
Why Writers Are Forced to Become Brands (and Why That’s Bad)

Jess Row on the Ubiquity of the Digital Persona, From Child Stars to Disney Adults

By Jess Row | June 26, 2024

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Helen Fielding on Bridget Jones and the Subtle Art of Diary Keeping

By Helen Fielding | June 26, 2024

Intertwined in Madness: On Turning Yourself into a Character in a Novel

By Alana Saab | June 26, 2024

Christopher Chen on Jorge Luis Borges’s “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | June 26, 2024

What to Read Before and After Seeing <em>How to Come Alive With Norman Mailer</em>

What to Read Before and After Seeing How to Come Alive With Norman Mailer

Readings on the Life, Works, and Conflicts of Norman Mailer

By Literary Hub | June 25, 2024

In Search of the Rarest Book in American Literature: Edgar Allan Poe’s <em>Tamerlane</em>

In Search of the Rarest Book in American Literature: Edgar Allan Poe’s Tamerlane

Bradford Morrow on the Bibliophile’s Holy Grail, Otherwise Known as the “Black Tulip”

By Bradford Morrow | June 25, 2024

How Reading Grief Memoirs Helped Cody Delistraty Understand His Loss in New Ways

How Reading Grief Memoirs Helped Cody Delistraty Understand His Loss in New Ways

The Author of “The Grief Cure” on the Unexpected Invisibility of the Grieving

By Cody Delistraty | June 25, 2024

Playing With Time: On the Art of Imagining in Alan Lightman’s <em>Einstein’s Dreams</em>

Playing With Time: On the Art of Imagining in Alan Lightman’s Einstein’s Dreams

Alizah Holstein Considers the Intersection of Academic Knowledge and Creative Passion

By Alizah Holstein | June 25, 2024

Carina del Valle Schorske on Putting Rhythms into Prose

Carina del Valle Schorske on Putting Rhythms into Prose

In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics

By The Critic and Her Publics | June 25, 2024

Why We All Should Have a “Good Art Friend”

Why We All Should Have a “Good Art Friend”

Rachel Zimmerman on an Invaluable Literary Friendship Cut Short By Cancer

By Rachel Zimmerman | June 25, 2024

Shze-Hui Tjoa on Her Debut Memoir

Shze-Hui Tjoa on Her Debut Memoir

In Conversation with Lindsay Hunter on I'm a Writer But — Live! At Exile in Bookville in Chicago!

By I'm a Writer But | June 25, 2024

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