What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring Kaveh Akbar, Frantz Fanon, Elizabeth Gonzalez James, and More

By Book Marks | January 26, 2024

Author as Illusionist: William Maxwell on Literary Magic and Refusing to Give Up as a Writer

Author as Illusionist: William Maxwell on Literary Magic and Refusing to Give Up as a Writer

Alec Wilkinson Introduces Maxwell’s Speech at Smith College in 1955

By William Maxwell | January 26, 2024

So Fetch, So Fierce: In Praise of All the Literary Mean Girls

So Fetch, So Fierce: In Praise of All the Literary Mean Girls

Jennifer Keishin Armstrong Recommends Mona Awad, Kirthana Ramisetti, Anna Bogutskaya, and More

By Jennifer Keishin Armstrong | January 26, 2024

The Annotated Nightstand: What Brandi Wells is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Brandi Wells is Reading Now and Next

Featuring George Eliot, Jeanette Winterson, Julie Otsuka, and More

By Diana Arterian | January 26, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The ingenious doctor and impassioned activist was every bit as much a victim of empire as the patients he worked to heal.”

By Book Marks | January 25, 2024

Am I the Literary Assh*le? Judging Your Bad Bookish Behavior

Am I the Literary Assh*le? Judging Your Bad Bookish Behavior

Introducing a New Column with Kristen Arnett

By Kristen Arnett | January 25, 2024

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Keeper
  • The Life You Want
  • The News from Dublin: Stories
  • Kutchinsky's Egg: A Family's Story of Obsession, Love, and Loss
  • Metropolitans: New York Baseball, Class Struggle, and the People's Team
  • A Good Person

Ed Park on Korea’s Past, Real and Imagined

By Fiction Non Fiction | January 25, 2024

David Cooper on the Czech Manuscripts Hoax

By History of Literature | January 25, 2024

Re(re)vision: Laurie Frankel on Throwing Away Half Her Book While Writing It

By Laurie Frankel | January 24, 2024

Megan Hunter on the Experience of Bringing a Novel to the Big Screen

Megan Hunter on the Experience of Bringing a Novel to the Big Screen

The Author of “The End We Start From” Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | January 24, 2024

Dan Levy on Not Fearing Sincerity

Dan Levy on Not Fearing Sincerity

This Week on the Talk Easy Podcast with Sam Fragoso

By Talk Easy | January 24, 2024

Zachary Pace on the Push and Pull of Working in Publishing as a Writer

Zachary Pace on the Push and Pull of Working in Publishing as a Writer

“I worried that my writing was a fanciful distraction—and that publishing it was a conflict of interest.”

By Zachary Pace | January 23, 2024

How Nellie Bly and Other Trailblazing Women Wrote Creative Nonfiction Before It Was a Thing

How Nellie Bly and Other Trailblazing Women Wrote Creative Nonfiction Before It Was a Thing

Lee Gutkind on the Early Origins of a Very American Kind of Writing

By Lee Gutkind | January 23, 2024

Manjula Martin on Chronicling a World in Constant Turmoil

Manjula Martin on Chronicling a World in Constant Turmoil

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “The Last Fire Season”

By Jane Ciabattari | January 23, 2024

26 new books out today!

26 new books out today!

By Gabrielle Bellot | January 23, 2024

Kate Brody on Subverting Genre

Kate Brody on Subverting Genre

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

By I'm a Writer But | January 23, 2024

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