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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"Her book has promised universal absolution and universal absolution it must deliver."

By Book Marks | September 21, 2023

Wham! Biff! Kapow! ACTION! with S.L. Huang, Julia Vee, and Ken Bebelle

Wham! Biff! Kapow! ACTION! with S.L. Huang, Julia Vee, and Ken Bebelle

Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre S03E04

By Tor Presents: Voyage into Genre | September 20, 2023

Anne Enright Stays Inside the Work

Anne Enright Stays Inside the Work

The Author of The Wren, The Wren Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Anne Enright | September 19, 2023

The Politics of Chronic Illness Memoirs

The Politics of Chronic Illness Memoirs

"They show a broader human urge to understand the bodies we live in, especially when they falter."

By Kate Roberts | September 19, 2023

Betty Gilpin on Being In It For Big Feelings

Betty Gilpin on Being In It For Big Feelings

This Week on the Talk Easy Podcast with Sam Fragoso

By Talk Easy | September 19, 2023

Estranging English: Mandy-Suzanne Wong on Constructing New Literary Languages

Estranging English: Mandy-Suzanne Wong on Constructing New Literary Languages

"When you are a foreigner, nothing around you is necessarily what it is."

By Mandy-Suzanne Wong | September 19, 2023

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Exit Party
  • Fallow
  • Our Noble Selves
  • Redwood: The Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Extraordinary Spy
  • The Newer World
  • End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World
  • Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History
  • Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era
  • Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made
  • The Rouse

Cleo Qian on the Differences Between Writing Poetry and Fiction

By I'm a Writer But | September 19, 2023

What's Unreal is Real: Alicia Elliott on the Tired Trope of Madness in Fiction

By Alicia Elliott | September 18, 2023

Poet and Translator Dong Li on the "Common Tongue of Poetry"

By Peter Mishler | September 18, 2023

The Many Lessons from James Baldwin's <em>Another Country</em>

The Many Lessons from James Baldwin's Another Country

Carole Burns Rediscovers a Masterclass in Craft

By Carole Burns | September 18, 2023

The Marvelous Real: Leonardo Padura on Alejo Carpentier's <em>The Lost Steps</em>

The Marvelous Real: Leonardo Padura on Alejo Carpentier's The Lost Steps

"Art entails a kind of knowledge that is undoubtedly transcendent in character. And yet art must be, is, something more."

By Leonardo Padura | September 18, 2023

James Shapiro on Shakespeare and America

James Shapiro on Shakespeare and America

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | September 18, 2023

James McBride on Going on Faith

James McBride on Going on Faith

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | September 18, 2023

Ghassan Zeineddine on What Short Stories Do That Novels Can’t

Ghassan Zeineddine on What Short Stories Do That Novels Can’t

From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | September 18, 2023

Kathleen Rooney on Writing Architecturally

Kathleen Rooney on Writing Architecturally

"In fiction, architecture can reveal that which might otherwise remain unreveal-able."

By Kathleen Rooney | September 15, 2023

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 New Titles by Lauren Groff, Naomi Klein, James Ellroy, and More

By Book Marks | September 15, 2023

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