5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“While reading ‘Next to Heaven,’ I sometimes thought I could feel individual cells in my body trying to die.”

By Book Marks | June 20, 2025

Kate McKean on the Nuts and Bolts of the Query Letter

Kate McKean on the Nuts and Bolts of the Query Letter

Or, How to Do a Lot in a Little Space

By Kate McKean | June 20, 2025

On the Lit Hub Podcast: Book Bans in Llano County and Community Supported Lit Mags

On the Lit Hub Podcast: Book Bans in Llano County and Community Supported Lit Mags

featuring Leila Green Little, Anthony Aycock, Benjamin Davis, and Drew Broussard

By The Lit Hub Podcast | June 20, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Catherine Lacey is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Catherine Lacey is Reading Now and Next

Featuring Jen Calleja, Tezer Özlü, Georgi Gospodinov and More

By Diana Arterian | June 20, 2025

How Four Literary Icons Chose the Pen Names That Made Them Famous

How Four Literary Icons Chose the Pen Names That Made Them Famous

Kirsty McHugh and Ian Scott Explore the Reasoning Behind Some Very Well Known Pseudonyms

By Kirsty McHugh and Ian Scott | June 20, 2025

Standing Tall: On the Value and Importance of Women Who Take Up Space

Standing Tall: On the Value and Importance of Women Who Take Up Space

Jane Smiley in Conversation with Susan Swan, Author of “Big Girls Don’t Cry”

By Jane Smiley | June 20, 2025

Best Reviewed
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  • Departure(s)
  • The Flower Bearers
  • Eating Ashes
  • Every One Still Here: Stories
  • Once There Was a Town: The Memory Books of a Lost Jewish World
  • The Typewriter and the Guillotine: An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve of WWII

Rambling Genealogies: Nandshankar Mehta and the Forgotten History of South Asian Cosmopolitanism

By Radha Vatsal | June 20, 2025

Hot, Moist, Hydrofeminist: Seven Sapphic Books with Themes of Water and Fludity

By Siouxzi Connor | June 20, 2025

Geoff Dyer on Homework and Play

By Fiction Non Fiction | June 20, 2025

Why Read: Seven Books About Our Passion and Need for Reading

Why Read: Seven Books About Our Passion and Need for Reading

Donna Seaman on the Books About Books You Need

By Donna Seaman | June 18, 2025

“I Feed on Queer Literature.” Michelle Tea on Her Ten Favorite Gay Books

“I Feed on Queer Literature.” Michelle Tea on Her Ten Favorite Gay Books

“Why are so many people afraid of questions?”

By Michelle Tea | June 18, 2025

Why America Can’t Get Enough of <em>The Wizard of Oz</em>

Why America Can’t Get Enough of The Wizard of Oz

Hazel Gaynor Celebrates the Films, Prequels, Sequels, and More

By Hazel Gaynor | June 18, 2025

Less Matters More: Joanna Walsh on the Expansive Possibilities of the Short Story

Less Matters More: Joanna Walsh on the Expansive Possibilities of the Short Story

“The memory of these fragments is always created, as a matter of reconstruction. And creation is always hope.”

By Joanna Walsh | June 18, 2025

Sigrid Nunez on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s <em>The Great Gatsby</em>

Sigrid Nunez on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | June 18, 2025

Nicholson Baker on the Unsung Pleasures of the World

Nicholson Baker on the Unsung Pleasures of the World

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds

By Thresholds | June 18, 2025

Niall Ferguson and Evan Osnos on Henry Kissinger

Niall Ferguson and Evan Osnos on Henry Kissinger

live at the 2024 Sun Vally Writers' Conference

By Sun Valley Writers' Conference | June 18, 2025

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