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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“A superb and disturbing vivisection of our darkest urges, this summer’s premier nonfiction read.”

By Book Marks | June 12, 2025

I Don’t Think My Fantasy-Writing Friend Will Get My Literary Fiction: Am I the Asshole?

I Don’t Think My Fantasy-Writing Friend Will Get My Literary Fiction: Am I the Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | June 12, 2025

The Ultimate Summer 2025 Reading List

The Ultimate Summer 2025 Reading List

Sun, Fun, Math, and Counting

By Emily Temple | June 12, 2025

Tired of Telling Just One Kind of Truth: On Moving from Journalism to Fiction

Tired of Telling Just One Kind of Truth: On Moving from Journalism to Fiction

Janelle Brown on Facts, the 1990s, and Writing Through the Problems of the Internet Age

By Janelle Brown | June 12, 2025

Jess Walter on the American Family Unplugged

Jess Walter on the American Family Unplugged

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | June 12, 2025

To Tell The Honest Truth: Why Black Women’s Stories Remain Essential

To Tell The Honest Truth: Why Black Women’s Stories Remain Essential

A’Lelia Bundles on Writing About Her Great-Grandmother, A’Lelia Walker, America's first Black Celebrity Heiress

By A'Lelia Bundles | June 11, 2025

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The Craft of This Mortal Coil: Jonathan Gluck on Writing a Different Cancer Story

By Terry McDonell | June 11, 2025

On Reimagining The Great Gatsby as a Black American Story

By Kyra Davis Lurie | June 11, 2025

Sarah Aziza on Trying Not to Disappear

By Thresholds | June 11, 2025

Melissa Febos and Lydi Conklin Aren’t Afraid to Be Direct

Melissa Febos and Lydi Conklin Aren’t Afraid to Be Direct

In Conversation with Lena Crown on Awakeners

By awakeners | June 10, 2025

A Past Most Queer: Remembering Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Radical Gay Historical Fiction

A Past Most Queer: Remembering Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Radical Gay Historical Fiction

B. Pietras on Queering “Flint Anchor,” LGBTQ Historical Stories, and Finding the Present in the Past

By B. Pietras | June 10, 2025

Tyranny as Tragedy: On <em>King Lear</em>, Maoist China and the Unpredictable Nature of Power

Tyranny as Tragedy: On King Lear, Maoist China and the Unpredictable Nature of Power

Nan Z. Da Explores the Similarities Between Shakespeare’s Play and 20th-Century Totalitarian Reality

By Nan Z. Da | June 10, 2025

Gatherings Gone Wrong: Five Books Featuring Disastrous Party Scenes

Gatherings Gone Wrong: Five Books Featuring Disastrous Party Scenes

Jonathan Parks-Ramage Explores Brilliantly Bad Fetes in Books by Edward St. Aubyn, Raven Leilani, Deborah Eisenberg, and Others

By Jonathan Parks-Ramage | June 10, 2025

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Featuring Geoff Dyer, Ivy Pochoda, Megan Giddings and More

By Teddy Wayne | June 10, 2025

Jess Walter Eats Breakfast Three or Four Times While Writing (and Other Literary Tidbits)

Jess Walter Eats Breakfast Three or Four Times While Writing (and Other Literary Tidbits)

The Author of “So Far Gone” Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | June 10, 2025

Art Imitates Life: Finding Creative Freedom in the Fusion of Fiction and Biography

Art Imitates Life: Finding Creative Freedom in the Fusion of Fiction and Biography

Megan Hunter on the Process Behind Her Novel of Vanessa Bell, Angelica Garnett and the Bloomsbury Group

By Megan Hunter | June 10, 2025

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