30 Books Critics Think You Should Read Right Now

30 Books Critics Think You Should Read Right Now

NBCC Board Members Review This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists

By Literary Hub | March 14, 2023

What Lies Beneath: The Deep Geology of Prose

What Lies Beneath: The Deep Geology of Prose

Elizabeth McKenzie on Writing About Her Geologist Mother

By Elizabeth McKenzie | March 14, 2023

How To Find a Charming Narrator in a Self-Conscious Age

How To Find a Charming Narrator in a Self-Conscious Age

Cathleen Schine on Framing Narratives and Trusting the Reader

By Cathleen Schine | March 14, 2023

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

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

In Conversation With Victor LaValle, Szilvia Molnar, Cecile Pin, and More

By Teddy Wayne | March 14, 2023

“The Unknown Became the Central Part.” Matthew Vollmer on His New Memoir

“The Unknown Became the Central Part.” Matthew Vollmer on His New Memoir

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

By I'm a Writer But | March 14, 2023

“I’m in Communion with Emily Dickinson.” Jennifer Michael Hecht on How to Navigate Our World Through Poetry

“I’m in Communion with Emily Dickinson.” Jennifer Michael Hecht on How to Navigate Our World Through Poetry

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | March 14, 2023

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Rest of Our Lives
  • Call Me Ishmaelle
  • Homeschooled: A Memoir
  • The Spy in the Archive: How One Man Tried to Kill the KGB
  • Watching Over Her
  • American Reich: A Murder in Orange County, Neo-Nazis, and a New Age of Hate

16 new books to check out this week.

By Gabrielle Bellot | March 14, 2023

Why I Decided to Update the Language in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Children’s Books

By Theo Downes-Le Guin | March 13, 2023

“Everything is Riding on Your Author Photo.” Mary Childs on What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Book

By Mary Childs | March 13, 2023

Why Philip Roth, Why Now?

Why Philip Roth, Why Now?

Answers from Susan Choi, Ayad Akhtar, and Other Participants of “Philip Roth Unbound: Illuminating a Literary Legacy” Festival

By Literary Hub | March 13, 2023

Talking to Joyce Carol Oates on the Way to the Airport About Fiction’s Blurry Borders

Talking to Joyce Carol Oates on the Way to the Airport About Fiction’s Blurry Borders

Jesse Lee Kercheval Tries to Figure Out Where Life Ends and Fiction Begins

By Jesse Lee Kercheval | March 13, 2023

Our Family Secret Was Embedded in My Writing Before I Knew the Truth

Our Family Secret Was Embedded in My Writing Before I Knew the Truth

Dani Shapiro on Revisiting Her Book on Craft a Decade On

By Dani Shapiro | March 13, 2023

Gish Jen on Mining Tension in Fiction

Gish Jen on Mining Tension in Fiction

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

By Memoir Nation | March 13, 2023

Was Nabokov’s Love of the Cinema a Way to Survive Exile?

Was Nabokov’s Love of the Cinema a Way to Survive Exile?

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | March 13, 2023

Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult: Michelle Dowd Revisits Her Childhood in <em>Forager</em>

Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult: Michelle Dowd Revisits Her Childhood in Forager

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | March 13, 2023

The Female Philosophers Unjustly Excluded from the Canon

The Female Philosophers Unjustly Excluded from the Canon

Regan Penaluna on Christine de Pizan, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Anna Julia Cooper, and More

By Regan Penaluna | March 13, 2023

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