5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"Tapping into the sticky stuff of humanity, each story is a gift"

By Book Marks | August 3, 2023

J. Vanessa Lyon on Finding Inspiration in the Photography of James Van Der Zee

J. Vanessa Lyon on Finding Inspiration in the Photography of James Van Der Zee

"A good photograph, like a good novel, represents a series of artistic choices."

By J. Vanessa Lyon | August 2, 2023

When Cause Doesn't Follow Effect: How to Structure the Strange

When Cause Doesn't Follow Effect: How to Structure the Strange

Rebekah Bergman Recommends Innovative Ways to Build Your Next Story

By Rebekah Bergman | August 2, 2023

Jamel Brinkley Spends His Time Rereading Incredible Prose

Jamel Brinkley Spends His Time Rereading Incredible Prose

The Author of Witness Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | August 2, 2023

Laura Warrell on How Novels Can Teach Us To Love

Laura Warrell on How Novels Can Teach Us To Love

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 2, 2023

Here is the 2023 Booker Prize longlist!

Here is the 2023 Booker Prize longlist!

By Janet Manley | August 1, 2023

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man: A Memoir
  • Nonesuch
  • Whidbey
  • A Scandal in Königsberg
  • The Quantity Theory of Morality
  • Partially Devoured: How Night of the Living Dead Saved My Life and Changed the World

Writing a Novel to Encounter Other Versions of Myself

By Bee Sacks | August 1, 2023

On the Joys of Food-Centered Fiction

By Michelle Wildgen | August 1, 2023

Jimin Han on Filling Narrative Blank Spaces With Memory and Imagination

By Jane Ciabattari | August 1, 2023

Ann Patchett on Grabbing Galleys and Getting Drafts Done

Ann Patchett on Grabbing Galleys and Getting Drafts Done

The Author of Tom Lake Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | August 1, 2023

The Universe is an Unreliable Narrator: Mindy Mejia Litsplains Physics

The Universe is an Unreliable Narrator: Mindy Mejia Litsplains Physics

"I learned how to tell a story from the first and greatest storyteller of all."

By Mindy Mejia | August 1, 2023

Nathaniel Rich on Storytelling and the Climate Crisis

Nathaniel Rich on Storytelling and the Climate Crisis

This Week on the Talk Easy Podcast with Sam Fragoso

By Talk Easy | August 1, 2023

How Exile Allowed Shastri Akella to Write a Queer Novel

How Exile Allowed Shastri Akella to Write a Queer Novel

On Queerness in the Mahabharata and Hiking the Himalayas for Inspiration

By Shastri Akella | July 31, 2023

Pankaj Mishra on the Eternal Present of Amit Chaudhuri's <em>The Immortals</em>

Pankaj Mishra on the Eternal Present of Amit Chaudhuri's The Immortals

"The novel instead seems to be seeking the unknown, a strange experience of fascination beyond language and representation."

By Pankaj Mishra | July 31, 2023

The Booker Revisited: Caroline Blackwood's Darkly Humorous <em>Great Granny Webster</em>

The Booker Revisited: Caroline Blackwood's Darkly Humorous Great Granny Webster

Lucy Scholes Considers Another Contender of Years Past

By Lucy Scholes | July 31, 2023

The History of Literature Puts Langston Hughes in Context

The History of Literature Puts Langston Hughes in Context

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | July 31, 2023

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