5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The truth may sometimes hurt, but the lies are in bed with collective death.”

By Book Marks | April 20, 2023

Live from New York: Curtis Sittenfeld on Dating Up, Writing Funny, and How SNL and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop Are Alike

Live from New York: Curtis Sittenfeld on Dating Up, Writing Funny, and How SNL and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop Are Alike

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | April 20, 2023

Matthew Zapruder: Revising a Poem is Like Revising Your Life

Matthew Zapruder: Revising a Poem is Like Revising Your Life

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | April 20, 2023

Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu on Sex as Escape, Being a Jerk, and “Alcohol-fueled Insanity”

Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu on Sex as Escape, Being a Jerk, and “Alcohol-fueled Insanity”

Juan Velasquez Talks to the Author of Anything That Moves

By Juan Velasquez | April 20, 2023

How Messy Can a <br>Rom-Com Be?

How Messy Can a
Rom-Com Be?

Carlyn Greenwald on Queer Romance and the Bounds
of Cis-Hetero Agenda

By Carlyn Greenwald | April 20, 2023

Here are the finalists for the 2023 Young Lions Fiction Award.

Here are the finalists for the 2023 Young Lions Fiction Award.

By Janet Manley | April 19, 2023

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • 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

How Annie Ernaux Captures the Spirit of Her Era Through Its Big-Box Stores

By Literary Hub | April 19, 2023

Falling in Love with a Dog and the World

By Ramona Ausubel | April 19, 2023

You Can Hate Leaving Your Child, and Be Glad You Went

By Mary Louise Kelly | April 19, 2023

Bookworm in a Chrysalis: How Language Acquisition Nourishes a Love of Literature

Bookworm in a Chrysalis: How Language Acquisition Nourishes a Love of Literature

Natasha S. on Being a Multilingual Reader and Writer

By Natasha S. and Larissa Kyzer | April 19, 2023

Kevin Chong on Finding Inspiration in Surprise

Kevin Chong on Finding Inspiration in Surprise

“Surprises are often ones you initially resist, if not outright ignore.”

By Kevin Chong | April 19, 2023

Elizabeth Graver and J.C. Hallman on the Blurred Boundaries between Fact and Fiction

Elizabeth Graver and J.C. Hallman on the Blurred Boundaries between Fact and Fiction

"I’m interested in nostalgia and what it means to think you’re at the height of your life."

By Literary Hub | April 19, 2023

Double Vision: A Reading List of Twins in Literature

Double Vision: A Reading List of Twins in Literature

Becky Chalsen Recommends Curtis Sittenfeld, Brit Bennett, Jandy Nelson, and Many More

By Becky Chalsen | April 19, 2023

Ryan Love Reads from His New Novel <em>Arthur and Teddy Are Coming Out </em>

Ryan Love Reads from His New Novel Arthur and Teddy Are Coming Out

From Damian Barr’s Literary Salon Podcast

By Damian Barr's Literary Salon | April 19, 2023

For teens who like to write: Miami Book Fair is offering a virtual summer camp.

For teens who like to write: Miami Book Fair is offering a virtual summer camp.

By Jonny Diamond | April 18, 2023

Here is the 2023 International Booker Prize shortlist.

Here is the 2023 International Booker Prize shortlist.

By Janet Manley | April 18, 2023

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