5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Anne Enright on Colin Barrett, Juan Gabriel Vásquez on Fernanda Melchor, Molly Young on John Waters, and more

By Book Marks | May 5, 2022

Alex George on the “Absolutely Extraordinary Journey” of Running a Book Festival

Alex George on the “Absolutely Extraordinary Journey” of Running a Book Festival

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 5, 2022

WATCH: Liana Finck on Retelling the Book of Genesis

WATCH: Liana Finck on Retelling the Book of Genesis

In Conversation with Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell at Greenlight Bookstore

By The Virtual Book Channel | May 5, 2022

Why We Should Judge All Politicians Through the Prism of Authenticity

Why We Should Judge All Politicians Through the Prism of Authenticity

Danica Roem in Conversation With Andrew Keen

By Keen On | May 5, 2022

On the Post-Apocalyptic Landscape of Walter Kappacher’s <em>Palace of Flies</em>

On the Post-Apocalyptic Landscape of Walter Kappacher’s Palace of Flies

Michael P. Steinberg Locates Echoes and Ghosts in a Broken Austria

By Michael P. Steinberg | May 5, 2022

Anna Quindlen: You’re Never Alone When You Read Great Novels

Anna Quindlen: You’re Never Alone When You Read Great Novels

On Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady

By Just the Right Book | May 5, 2022

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  • Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991
  • A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies
  • It Will Come Back to You: Collected Stories
  • Cloudthief
  • Cool Machine
  • Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast
  • Beginning Middle End
  • They Stole a City: Wilmington's White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live with Its Legacy

What It Took to Finally Write Honestly About My Mental Illness

By Joanne Greenberg | May 5, 2022

Behind the Scenes: Programming the 2022 Sun Valley Writers' Conference

By Sun Valley Writers' Conference | May 5, 2022

How Everyone—Left and Right—Has Misrepresented the History of Texas

By Keen On | May 5, 2022

How Apple Appears to Have Lost Its Soul in the Post-Steve Jobs Era

How Apple Appears to Have Lost Its Soul in the Post-Steve Jobs Era

Tripp Mickle in Conversation With Andrew Keen

By Keen On | May 5, 2022

Should We Really Want to Reclaim “Reality” in Our Counterfeit World?

Should We Really Want to Reclaim “Reality” in Our Counterfeit World?

Alice Sherwood in Conversation With Andrew Keen

By Keen On | May 5, 2022

<em>Guerre</em>, a Louis-Ferdinand Celine manuscript once thought lost, will be published in France.

Guerre, a Louis-Ferdinand Celine manuscript once thought lost, will be published in France.

By Jonny Diamond | May 4, 2022

The Girl Who Left, The Woman Who Stayed: Finding Georgia O’Keeffe in a Small Southern Town

The Girl Who Left, The Woman Who Stayed: Finding Georgia O’Keeffe in a Small Southern Town

Megan Mayhew Bergman on Where We Find Our Home

By Megan Mayhew Bergman | May 4, 2022

The Annotated Nightstand: What Renee Gladman is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Renee Gladman is Reading Now and Next

A New (at Lit Hub) Series by Diana Arterian

By Diana Arterian | May 4, 2022

Endnotes on the World Around Us: Ross Gay, adrienne maree brown, and More Voices from <em>Thresholds</em>

Endnotes on the World Around Us: Ross Gay, adrienne maree brown, and More Voices from Thresholds

Hosted by Jordan Kisner

By Thresholds | May 4, 2022

Memoirs with Benefits: A Reading List of Hybrid Narratives

Memoirs with Benefits: A Reading List of Hybrid Narratives

Courtney Maum Recommends Memoirs That Seesaw from Past to Present, Personal to Universal

By Courtney Maum | May 4, 2022

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