July’s Best Reviewed Fiction

July’s Best Reviewed Fiction

Featuring Gary Shteyngart, Michael Clune, Ed Park, and More

By Dan Sheehan | July 31, 2025

July’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

July’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

Featuring Love at Sea, Amelia Earhart, the Roma, and More

By Book Marks | July 31, 2025

Eric Puchner on Humor, Craft, and Creating “Perfect Ambivalence” on the Page

Eric Puchner on Humor, Craft, and Creating “Perfect Ambivalence” on the Page

The Author of “Dream State” in Conversation with Jessie Gaynor

By Jessie Gaynor | July 31, 2025

The Most Anticipated Audiobooks of August

The Most Anticipated Audiobooks of August

The Literature to Listen to This Month

By Audiofile Magazine | July 31, 2025

“If God Were Like Chekhov, I Would Be Consoled.” On the Privileges of Misery

“If God Were Like Chekhov, I Would Be Consoled.” On the Privileges of Misery

Philip Metres on the Eternal Brilliance of a Russian Master

By Philip Metres | July 30, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“If Vivian Gornick wrote fiction, it might look something like this.”

By Book Marks | July 30, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Country People
  • You Won't Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters
  • Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991
  • The Great Wherever
  • A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies
  • The Simp: A Novel Without a Hero

Form, Method, and Metafiction: Talking Craft and Completion with Ed Park

By Eric Olson | July 30, 2025

The Art of Lying: Kate Weinberg on the Similarities Between Fibs and Fiction

By Kate Weinberg | July 30, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Daniel Saldaña Paris is Reading Now, and Next

By Diana Arterian | July 30, 2025

Roy Williams on Dael Orlandersmith’s <em>Yellowman</em>

Roy Williams on Dael Orlandersmith’s Yellowman

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

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | July 30, 2025

Ed Park Can’t Stop Thinking About Zabar’s Strudel

Ed Park Can’t Stop Thinking About Zabar’s Strudel

The Author of “An Oral History of Atlantis” Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | July 29, 2025

Drawing Motherhood: Four Graphic Memoirists Discuss Their Books on Parenting Life

Drawing Motherhood: Four Graphic Memoirists Discuss Their Books on Parenting Life

Rachel Deutsch Talks to Teresa Wong, Becky Barnicoat and Mary Catherine Starr

By Rachel Deutsch | July 29, 2025

Rax King! Writers on writing! Gwyneth Paltrow? 16 new books out today!

Rax King! Writers on writing! Gwyneth Paltrow? 16 new books out today!

By Gabrielle Bellot | July 29, 2025

Ha Jin on the Transcendent and Universal Power of Artistic Practice

Ha Jin on the Transcendent and Universal Power of Artistic Practice

“In literature I have found a landscape or galaxy that is vaster and more enduring than a country or a state.”

By Ha Jin | July 28, 2025

Small Book, Big Ideas: <em>Harold and the Purple Crayon</em> and the Art of Imagination

Small Book, Big Ideas: Harold and the Purple Crayon and the Art of Imagination

Philip Nel on the Enduring Cultural Legacy of a Children’s Classic

By Philip Nel | July 28, 2025

Margaret Busby on Jazz, Africa, and the Endurance of Jayne Cortez’s Disruptive Poetry

Margaret Busby on Jazz, Africa, and the Endurance of Jayne Cortez’s Disruptive Poetry

The Editor of “Firespitter: The Collected Poems of Jayne Cortez” in Conversation with Poets.org

By Literary Hub | July 28, 2025

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