5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"It insists on patience as it doles out its pleasures."

By Book Marks | October 10, 2024

Jeff Sharlet on ‘Sanewashing’ and Fascism

Jeff Sharlet on ‘Sanewashing’ and Fascism

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | October 10, 2024

Terry J. Benton-Walker and Sarah Henning on Writing Scary Stories for Kids

Terry J. Benton-Walker and Sarah Henning on Writing Scary Stories for Kids

In Conversation with Drew Broussard

By Tor Presents: Voyage into Genre | October 9, 2024

Five Books That Showcase the Fascinating Landscape of European Folklore

Five Books That Showcase the Fascinating Landscape of European Folklore

Ben Edge Recommends Work by John Maizels, Charles Freger, Stefan Fisher and More

By Ben Edge | October 9, 2024

What the Science of Memory Can (and Can’t) Reveal about Truth in Memoir

What the Science of Memory Can (and Can’t) Reveal about Truth in Memoir

Debra Nystrom on the Power of Personal Story Alongside Objective Study

By Debra Nystrom | October 9, 2024

Secrets of Los Alamos: How Family Stories Can Help Inform Historical Fiction

Secrets of Los Alamos: How Family Stories Can Help Inform Historical Fiction

Rachel Robbins Considers the Roles of Fact, History and Memory in Storytelling

By Rachel Robbins | October 9, 2024

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

10 Best Books for Understanding American Class

By Literary Hub | October 8, 2024

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

By Teddy Wayne | October 8, 2024

Luis Jaramillo on Creating a Multigenerational Speculative Story of the Borderlands

By Jane Ciabattari | October 8, 2024

Margaret Atwood’s poems! Spamalot! Marie Curie! 25 new books out today.

Margaret Atwood’s poems! Spamalot! Marie Curie! 25 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | October 8, 2024

“Those Folks Never Had Their Lights Turned Off.” On the Literary Importance of Highlighting the Haves and the Have-Nots

“Those Folks Never Had Their Lights Turned Off.” On the Literary Importance of Highlighting the Haves and the Have-Nots

From Barroom Chats with Raymond Carver to the Aperçus of Thomas Piketty, Douglas Unger Explores Class Consciousness in American Letters

By Douglas Unger | October 7, 2024

On the Environmental and Philosophical Factors Behind Literary Creation

On the Environmental and Philosophical Factors Behind Literary Creation

Steve Wasserman Deconstructs the “Writer’s Space”

By Steve Wasserman | October 7, 2024

Satanic Sympathies: On the Demon Depictions That Helped Jamie Quarto Write <em>Two-Step Devil</em>

Satanic Sympathies: On the Demon Depictions That Helped Jamie Quarto Write Two-Step Devil

Featuring Work by William Blake, Rabih Alammedine, Mechthild of Magdeburg, and More

By Jamie Quatro | October 7, 2024

On the Remarkable Legacy of Lewis Lapham

On the Remarkable Legacy of Lewis Lapham

Elias Altman Remembers His Boss' Advice on Writing, Editing, and When a Deal's a Deal

By Elias Altman | October 7, 2024

All or Nothing: Deborah Levy on Marguerite Duras’s <em>The Lover</em>

All or Nothing: Deborah Levy on Marguerite Duras’s The Lover

“Duras never covertly apologizes for the moral or psychological way that she exists in the world.”

By Deborah Levy | October 7, 2024

Translating the Ancient Language of The Vetala Tales

Translating the Ancient Language of The Vetala Tales

Douglas J. Penick on Capturing the Essence of South Asian Mythology For a Contemporary Western Audience

By Douglas J. Penick | October 7, 2024

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