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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"Offering a mouthful of nectar that tastes faintly of blood."

By Book Marks | September 28, 2023

Aparna Nancherla on Writing as a Procrastinator

Aparna Nancherla on Writing as a Procrastinator

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | September 28, 2023

Mona Awad on Beauty Cults and Tom Cruise

Mona Awad on Beauty Cults and Tom Cruise

In Conversation with Christopher Hermelin on So Many Damn Books

By So Many Damn Books | September 28, 2023

From Serialization to Novelization: On the First Iteration of Frank Herbert's <em>Dune</em>

From Serialization to Novelization: On the First Iteration of Frank Herbert's Dune

"Books have the ability to travel into the future in a way that no other written medium does."

By Ryan Britt | September 27, 2023

On Shakespeare's Two Heroic Friends that Saved the Bard's Plays From Being Burned

On Shakespeare's Two Heroic Friends that Saved the Bard's Plays From Being Burned

A Short History of the First Folio

By Gregory Doran | September 27, 2023

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Pedro Páramo">"Bitterness Incarnate:" Douglas J. Weatherford on Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo

"The text vacillates between presence and absence, between reality and irreality, and even between life and death."

By Douglas J. Weatherford | September 27, 2023

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  • Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945
  • Under Water
  • Paradiso 17
  • The Plans I Have for You
  • In Search of Now: The Science of the Present Moment
  • Stephen Sondheim: Art Isn't Easy

The Rules of the Game: How Genre Can Illuminate Theme

By Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu | September 27, 2023

The Diving Suit and the Bathtub, or: How a Single Image Sparked a Whole Novel

By Steve Stern | September 27, 2023

Enduring Epics: Emily Wilson and Madeline Miller on Breathing New Life Into Ancient Classics

By Emily Wilson | September 26, 2023

Hermione Lee on Mavis Gallant,

Hermione Lee on Mavis Gallant, "Unerring Stylist"

"A writer for whom nothing is alien and everything is possible"

By Hermione Lee | September 26, 2023

How Nora Fussner Turned a Reality TV Job Into a Novel

How Nora Fussner Turned a Reality TV Job Into a Novel

The Author of The Invisible World on Her Life as a Logger

By Nora Fussner | September 26, 2023

Jayne Anne Phillips on Uncovering the Hidden Aftermath of the Civil War

Jayne Anne Phillips on Uncovering the Hidden Aftermath of the Civil War

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of Night Watch

By Jane Ciabattari | September 26, 2023

Elisa Gabbert and Michael Joseph Walsh on Rilke's <em>The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge</em>

Elisa Gabbert and Michael Joseph Walsh on Rilke's The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

In Conversation with Catherine Nichols on the Lit Century Podcast

By Lit Century | September 26, 2023

Jake Tapper on What Happens to People Who Get Power

Jake Tapper on What Happens to People Who Get Power

This Week on the Talk Easy Podcast with Sam Fragoso

By Talk Easy | September 26, 2023

New Homelands: Alexander Chee on Lan Samantha Chang's <em>Hunger</em>

New Homelands: Alexander Chee on Lan Samantha Chang's Hunger

"It is a wise book, for the way it is full of the sorts of mistakes people make and cannot take back."

By Alexander Chee | September 25, 2023

Ken Follett Wants His Books to Feel as Exciting as James Bond

Ken Follett Wants His Books to Feel as Exciting as James Bond

The Author of The Armor of Light Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | September 25, 2023

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