5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“What makes his writing distinctive is not its sameness but rather its range and variety.”

By Book Marks | October 16, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Susan Orlean Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Susan Orlean Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Gabrielle Zevin, Kate Atkinson, Matthew Desmond, and More

By Diana Arterian | October 16, 2025

What the Picture Knows: Books That Seamlessly Blend Text and Image

What the Picture Knows: Books That Seamlessly Blend Text and Image

Caleb Klaces on the Often-Overlooked Role of Photography in Works of Fiction

By Caleb Klaces | October 16, 2025

Jelani Cobb on Race, Politics, and the ‘Trayvon Martin Generation’

Jelani Cobb on Race, Politics, and the ‘Trayvon Martin Generation’

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | October 16, 2025

Between Taiwanese and Mandarin: Translation as a Test of Allegiance

Between Taiwanese and Mandarin: Translation as a Test of Allegiance

Kevin Wang Explores How Translating Terao Tetsuya’s “Spent Bullets” Helped Him Understand the Legacy of Taiwan

By Kevin Wang | October 15, 2025

Anna North Thinks About the Roman Empire All the Time

Anna North Thinks About the Roman Empire All the Time

The Author Explores How Learning Latin Helps Her Untangle History With the Present

By Anna North | October 15, 2025

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  • The Rest of Our Lives
  • Call Me Ishmaelle
  • This Is Where the Serpent Lives
  • Lost Lambs
  • Winter: The Story of a Season
  • The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
  • Departure(s)
  • Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China
  • The Flower Bearers
  • Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood

How Self-Satire Can Act as Catharsis

By Sonora Jha | October 15, 2025

58 Books You Need to Read (Recommended by People Who Know)

By Literary Hub | October 14, 2025

Brandon Taylor, Megha Majumdar, Susan Orlean, and more: 27 new books out today!

By Julia Hass | October 14, 2025

Who Was Peter Matthiessen, Really?

Who Was Peter Matthiessen, Really?

Terry McDonell Talks to Lance Richardson About Matthiessen’s Moral Ambiguity, Bigfoot, and More

By Terry McDonell | October 14, 2025

Lukas Gage Recommends His Favorite Celebrity Memoirs

Lukas Gage Recommends His Favorite Celebrity Memoirs

Demi Moore, Pamela Anderson, and More

By Lukas Gage | October 14, 2025

Quan Barry on Writing a Horror Novel Set in Antarctica

Quan Barry on Writing a Horror Novel Set in Antarctica

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “The Unveiling”

By Jane Ciabattari | October 14, 2025

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

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

Featuring Megha Majumdar, Julia Ioffe, Erin Somers and More

By Teddy Wayne | October 14, 2025

Poetry for Everyone: Remembering Courtney Kampa

Poetry for Everyone: Remembering Courtney Kampa

On Creating a Posthumous Collection That Captures a Vibrant Life and Creative Ethos

By Catherine Pond and T Bambrick | October 14, 2025

Regina Brooks on the Business of Memoir

Regina Brooks on the Business of Memoir

From the Memoir Nation Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | October 14, 2025

Pynchon and Splatterpunk in America on <em>The Lit Hub Podcast</em>

Pynchon and Splatterpunk in America on The Lit Hub Podcast

Featuring Oliver Scialdone, Devin Thomas O'Shea, Drew Broussard, and a phone call from Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

By The Lit Hub Podcast | October 10, 2025

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