5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“It’s a total, self-encapsulating project—about a total, self-encapsulating doom.”

By Book Marks | July 3, 2025

Clarence A. Haynes on Finding the Soundscape of Your Novel

Clarence A. Haynes on Finding the Soundscape of Your Novel

“I needed sounds that were lush, that could carry these characters’ emotional weight.”

By Clarence A. Haynes | July 3, 2025

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 Kathy Wang, the CIA, Nell Stevens, and More

By Book Marks | July 3, 2025

Have You Considered an Anarchist Approach to Plot?

Have You Considered an Anarchist Approach to Plot?

Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante on Throwing Bombs, Emotional Movement, and Other Plot Devices

By Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante | July 3, 2025

Dina Nayeri on Iranian Life Under Attack

Dina Nayeri on Iranian Life Under Attack

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | July 3, 2025

Is Summer Actually the Season for Reading Big, Thick Books?

Is Summer Actually the Season for Reading Big, Thick Books?

In Which James Folta Wonders If Bigger Really is Better

By James Folta | July 2, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Joyride: A Memoir
  • A Guardian and a Thief
  • Minor Black Figures
  • True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen
  • The Wayfinder
  • Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat To) the Modern Dictionary

Jessica Berger Gross on the Special Euphoria of Debuting as a Novelist in Her 50s

By Jessica Berger Gross | July 2, 2025

Other, Better Worlds: Pip Adam on the Possibilities of Politically Engaged Speculative Fiction

By Danielle Dutton | July 2, 2025

Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini on Bola Agbaje's Gone Too Far!

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | July 2, 2025

Libby Buck on Writing Like an Art Historian

Libby Buck on Writing Like an Art Historian

“I follow the object, asking it to speak to me.”

By Libby Buck | July 1, 2025

Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025, Part Two

Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025, Part Two

249 Books to Read Before the End of the Year

By Literary Hub | July 1, 2025

A Series of Unfortunate Salaries: <br>Maris Kreizman on Fighting the Publishing Industry’s Elitism

A Series of Unfortunate Salaries:
Maris Kreizman on Fighting the Publishing Industry’s Elitism

The Author of “I Want to Burn This Place Down” Unionizes Against the Big Five’s Unlivable Wages

By Maris Kreizman | July 1, 2025

Paris Made My Cheeks Hurt: On Language and Muscle Memory

Paris Made My Cheeks Hurt: On Language and Muscle Memory

Benedict Nguyễn Explores Writing and Revising Across Linguistic Lines

By Benedict Nguyễn | July 1, 2025

Meg Waite Clayton on Fictionalizing Hollywood’s Blacklist Era

Meg Waite Clayton on Fictionalizing Hollywood’s Blacklist Era

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Typewriter Beach”

By Jane Ciabattari | July 1, 2025

Jemimah Wei and Tash Aw Tell Time and Place

Jemimah Wei and Tash Aw Tell Time and Place

In Conversation with Lena Crown on Awakeners

By awakeners | July 1, 2025

Owls, Haunted Pianos, Having the Moon for a Neighbor: Ten Children’s Books to Read in July

Owls, Haunted Pianos, Having the Moon for a Neighbor: Ten Children’s Books to Read in July

Caroline Carlson Recommends Sue Soltis, Marzena Sowa, Sarah J. Mendonca, and More

By Caroline Carlson | June 30, 2025

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