5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Hermione Hoby on Katherine Dunn, Justin Taylor on Cormac McCarthy, and More

By Book Marks | November 17, 2022

A Plethora of Penises: How People Wrote About Sex in the Middle Ages

A Plethora of Penises: How People Wrote About Sex in the Middle Ages

Katherine Harvey on Erotic Expressions in Medieval Literature

By Katherine Harvey | November 17, 2022

Choosing to Bear Witness: Writing the Story of a Body

Choosing to Bear Witness: Writing the Story of a Body

Emily Van Duyne on Emma Bolden’s The Tiger and the Cage

By Emily Van Duyne | November 17, 2022

Life Advice for Book Lovers: Dealing with Financial Anxiety in Friendships

Life Advice for Book Lovers: Dealing with Financial Anxiety in Friendships

Book Recommendations for the Troubled Soul

By Dorothea | November 17, 2022

The Annotated Nightstand: What Anna Moschovakis is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Anna Moschovakis is Reading Now and Next

Books by Saidiya Hartman, Annie Ernaux, Jenny Diski, and more

By Diana Arterian | November 17, 2022

Jeanna Kadlec on Leaving the Evangelical Church

Jeanna Kadlec on Leaving the Evangelical Church

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | November 17, 2022

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Margo Jefferson on Deriving Power from Our Heroes and Our Anti-Heroes

By Book Dreams | November 17, 2022

How the Moral Sickness Afflicting Silicon Valley Might Be a Pandemic of Egoism

By Keen On | November 17, 2022

Note to Donald Trump: This Is How to Become a Real Winner

By Keen On | November 17, 2022

The New Adaptation of <em>Fleishman Is in Trouble</em> Knows What to Do with Its Extra Space

The New Adaptation of Fleishman Is in Trouble Knows What to Do with Its Extra Space

Jessie Gaynor on the FX Series Based on Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s Novel

By Jessie Gaynor | November 16, 2022

“In Some Ways Immigration is Like an Apocalypse.” Pete Hsu on Writing About the Aftermath of Immigrating

“In Some Ways Immigration is Like an Apocalypse.” Pete Hsu on Writing About the Aftermath of Immigrating

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | November 16, 2022

“What Is It You Actually Do?” Jack O’Brien on the Role(s) of a Theater Director

“What Is It You Actually Do?” Jack O’Brien on the Role(s) of a Theater Director

“I’ve been praised for a lighting designer’s contribution, and condemned for a writer’s lack of skill.”

By Jack O'Brien | November 16, 2022

How Living in Naples Changed Shirley Hazzard’s Life

How Living in Naples Changed Shirley Hazzard’s Life

“If you come to live there, come to know it, you will live in other times.”

By Brigitta Olubas | November 15, 2022

Nick Hornby Understands the Pitfalls of Giving Novels as Gifts

Nick Hornby Understands the Pitfalls of Giving Novels as Gifts

The Author of Dickens and Prince Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | November 15, 2022

12 new books to look forward to this week.

12 new books to look forward to this week.

By Katie Yee | November 15, 2022

On the Glorious Queerness of Metrical Narrative

On the Glorious Queerness of Metrical Narrative

Cat Fitzpatrick’s Celebration of “Absurd Embellishments”

By Cat Fitzpatrick | November 15, 2022

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