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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Szalay has written a novel about the Big Question: about the numbing strangeness of being alive.”

By Book Marks | April 3, 2025

More Than Just a Toy: What an Old Dollhouse Taught Me About Storytelling and Family

More Than Just a Toy: What an Old Dollhouse Taught Me About Storytelling and Family

Elise Hooper: “In a world that feels increasingly troubling and out of control, the dollhouse is where my mother and I are at our best together.”

By Elise Hooper | April 3, 2025

Meghan O’Rourke on The End of the University

Meghan O’Rourke on The End of the University

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | April 3, 2025

American Literature’s White Whale: Why the “Great American Novel” is Still Worth Pursuing

American Literature’s White Whale: Why the “Great American Novel” is Still Worth Pursuing

Ed Simon on the Importance of Chasing an Elusive Literary Ideal in an Era of National Decline

By Ed Simon | April 2, 2025

Fighting for One’s Fiction: How Norman Mailer Taught Me to Defend My Plots

Fighting for One’s Fiction: How Norman Mailer Taught Me to Defend My Plots

Anthony Giardina Explores “Advertisements for Myself” and a Controversial Author’s Legacy

By Anthony Giardina | April 2, 2025

Rachel Kushner on How Clarice Lispector Disrupts Our Notions of Good and Bad

Rachel Kushner on How Clarice Lispector Disrupts Our Notions of Good and Bad

“Even as she does not mean to comfort, I feel her — here, still right here, to tell us how it really is.”

By Rachel Kushner | April 1, 2025

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Can Writers Ever Remember How to Read For Fun?

By Amy Shearn | April 1, 2025

On the Challenge of Writing a Sequel to a Twenty-Year-Old Novel

By Lee Martin | April 1, 2025

Jeanne Thornton! Amy Gerstler! Videogame memoirs! 26 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 1, 2025

A Small Press Book We Love: </br><em>Missing Time</em> by Ari Brostoff

A Small Press Book We Love:
Missing Time by Ari Brostoff

By Brittany Allen | March 31, 2025

From the Nightmares of the Third Reich to Elon Musk: 10 Nonfiction Books to Read in April

From the Nightmares of the Third Reich to Elon Musk: 10 Nonfiction Books to Read in April

Featuring Work by Faiz Siddiqui, Heather Christle, Ada Limón, and More

By Literary Hub | March 31, 2025

Ten New Children’s Books That Reveal the Wondrous Act of Storytelling

Ten New Children’s Books That Reveal the Wondrous Act of Storytelling

Caroline Carlson Rounds Up Some Great Kids’ Books Out in April

By Caroline Carlson | March 31, 2025

Gatsby, Bluebeard, and the Roys Walk Into a TBR: April’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Gatsby, Bluebeard, and the Roys Walk Into a TBR: April’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

New Sagas and Standalones from Olivie Blake, Nghi Vo, Isaac Fellman, and More

By Natalie Zutter | March 31, 2025

Art, Liberty, Diverse Voices: Six Poets on Why University Presses Are Critical for Poetry

Art, Liberty, Diverse Voices: Six Poets on Why University Presses Are Critical for Poetry

Featuring Ariana Benson, Peter Gizzi, Romeo Oriogun, V. Penelope Pelizzon, Greg Rappleye, and Jess Smith

By Literary Hub | March 31, 2025

Unhappy National Poetry Month: Seven Poetry Books to Read This April

Unhappy National Poetry Month: Seven Poetry Books to Read This April

Christopher Spaide Recommends Esther Kondo Heller, Jack Saebyok Jung, Antonio Gamoneda and More

By Christopher Spaide | March 31, 2025

Karen Russell on What the Magic Offers

Karen Russell on What the Magic Offers

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | March 31, 2025

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