5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“If Vivian Gornick wrote fiction, it might look something like this.”

By Book Marks | July 30, 2025

Form, Method, and Metafiction: Talking Craft and Completion with Ed Park

Form, Method, and Metafiction: Talking Craft and Completion with Ed Park

Eric Olson Profiles the Author of “An Oral History of Atlantis”

By Eric Olson | July 30, 2025

The Art of Lying: Kate Weinberg on the Similarities Between Fibs and Fiction

The Art of Lying: Kate Weinberg on the Similarities Between Fibs and Fiction

“Let’s be more honest with ourselves and all those who may learn from us: about the slipperiness of truth, about the wonders of fiction.”

By Kate Weinberg | July 30, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Daniel Saldaña Paris is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Daniel Saldaña Paris is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Gustav Flaubert, Yiyun Li, Francesca Wade, and Others

By Diana Arterian | July 30, 2025

Roy Williams on Dael Orlandersmith’s <em>Yellowman</em>

Roy Williams on Dael Orlandersmith’s Yellowman

In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | July 30, 2025

Ed Park Can’t Stop Thinking About Zabar’s Strudel

Ed Park Can’t Stop Thinking About Zabar’s Strudel

The Author of “An Oral History of Atlantis” Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | July 29, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • House of Day, House of Night
  • The Award
  • Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
  • Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
  • Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
  • The Six Loves of James I

Drawing Motherhood: Four Graphic Memoirists Discuss Their Books on Parenting Life

By Rachel Deutsch | July 29, 2025

Rax King! Writers on writing! Gwyneth Paltrow? 16 new books out today!

By Gabrielle Bellot | July 29, 2025

Ha Jin on the Transcendent and Universal Power of Artistic Practice

By Ha Jin | July 28, 2025

Small Book, Big Ideas: <em>Harold and the Purple Crayon</em> and the Art of Imagination

Small Book, Big Ideas: Harold and the Purple Crayon and the Art of Imagination

Philip Nel on the Enduring Cultural Legacy of a Children’s Classic

By Philip Nel | July 28, 2025

Margaret Busby on Jazz, Africa, and the Endurance of Jayne Cortez’s Disruptive Poetry

Margaret Busby on Jazz, Africa, and the Endurance of Jayne Cortez’s Disruptive Poetry

The Editor of “Firespitter: The Collected Poems of Jayne Cortez” in Conversation with Poets.org

By Literary Hub | July 28, 2025

John B. King on the Career Memoir

John B. King on the Career Memoir

From the Memoir Nation Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | July 28, 2025

Katie Yee on the Writing Lessons of a Great Prank

Katie Yee on the Writing Lessons of a Great Prank

“Both pranking and writing are exercises in careful observation.”

By Katie Yee | July 25, 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 Michael Clune, the Everly Brothers, Linn Ullman, and More

By Book Marks | July 25, 2025

Temptress, Shapeshifter, Bird, Fish: Seven Books That Explore the Myths of Sirens

Temptress, Shapeshifter, Bird, Fish: Seven Books That Explore the Myths of Sirens

Kalie Cassidy Recommends Cassandra Khaw, Rose Sutherland, Emilia Hart, and More

By Kalie Cassidy | July 25, 2025

On Hybrid Writing: Finding the Right Container for the Story You Need to Tell

On Hybrid Writing: Finding the Right Container for the Story You Need to Tell

Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante Embrace the Importance of Genre Fluidity

By Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante | July 25, 2025

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