5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Merve Emre on Love in Ulysses, Frank Guan on Chuck Klosterman’s Ode to the 90s, and More

By Book Marks | February 10, 2022

How Reading John McPhee’s Book on Tennis Helped Me Write About Skateboarding

How Reading John McPhee’s Book on Tennis Helped Me Write About Skateboarding

Jonathan Russell Clark Finds Better Ways to Describe the Action

By Jonathan Russell Clark | February 9, 2022

How to Finally Stop Obsessing About That Thing That Keeps You up at Night

How to Finally Stop Obsessing About That Thing That Keeps You up at Night

Cognitive Neuroscientist Moshe Bar on Labeling and “Writing Therapy”

By Moshe Bar | February 9, 2022

Kiese Laymon on Revision as Love, and Love as Revision

Kiese Laymon on Revision as Love, and Love as Revision

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast

By Thresholds | February 9, 2022

Brendan Slocumb on Mentorship, Antiquities Theft, and Being the Only Black Violin Player Around

Brendan Slocumb on Mentorship, Antiquities Theft, and Being the Only Black Violin Player Around

The Author of The Violin Conspiracy Talks to Jane Ciabattari

By Jane Ciabattari | February 9, 2022

Megan Walsh and Rosie Blau on the Nuanced Literary Voices in China

Megan Walsh and Rosie Blau on the Nuanced Literary Voices in China

This Week on Underreported with Nicholas Lemann
from Columbia Global Reports

By Underreported with Nicholas Lemann | February 9, 2022

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

Martin Puchner on the Climate Lessons from the Epic of Gilgamesh

By Martin Puchner | February 9, 2022

On Clarence Major’s Enduring Portrait of the Blues, Dirty Bird Blues

By Yusef Komunyakaa | February 9, 2022

Some Fundamental Principles for Writing Great Sex

By Bee Sacks | February 8, 2022

Jean Rhys’ Women on the Margins: On the Perpetual Resonance of <em>Voyage in the Dark</em>

Jean Rhys’ Women on the Margins: On the Perpetual Resonance of Voyage in the Dark

Imogen Crimp on the Intersection of Ambition, Power, Gender and Money

By Imogen Crimp | February 8, 2022

“Every Time You Eat a Bagel It’s a Fuckin’ Crime.” Liv Stratman on Writing About Diet Culture

“Every Time You Eat a Bagel It’s a Fuckin’ Crime.” Liv Stratman on Writing About Diet Culture

In Conversation with Alex Higley and Lindsay Hunter on I'm a Writer But  

By I'm a Writer But | February 8, 2022

The Voice of the Sea Speaks to the Soul: </br>On Kate Chopin’s <em>The Awakening</em>

The Voice of the Sea Speaks to the Soul:
On Kate Chopin’s The Awakening

An 1899 Review of Chopin’s Iconic Early Feminist Novel

By Book Marks | February 8, 2022

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

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

Featuring Gal Beckerman, Karen Cheung, and More!

By Teddy Wayne | February 8, 2022

20 new books hitting shelves this week.

20 new books hitting shelves this week.

By Katie Yee | February 8, 2022

Weird Short Story Writers for Strange Times

Weird Short Story Writers for Strange Times

Jason Ockert on Authors That Engage the Unexpected

By Jason Ockert | February 7, 2022

From <em>Little Miss Sunshine</em> to <em>Nanny</em>: How Genre is Transforming Our Idea of the “Sundance Film”

From Little Miss Sunshine to Nanny: How Genre is Transforming Our Idea of the “Sundance Film”

Reuben Baron Considers a Trend in This Year's Festival Standouts

By Reuben Baron | February 7, 2022

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