October’s Best Reviewed Fiction

October’s Best Reviewed Fiction

Featuring Alan Hollinghurst, Louise Erdrich, Jeff VanderMeer, and More

By Book Marks | October 31, 2024

October’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

October’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

Featuring André Aciman, Al Pacino, Sarah Moss, and More

By Book Marks | October 31, 2024

I Really Want to Call Out My Friend For Bragging About How Much YA She Reads: Am I the Literary Asshole?

I Really Want to Call Out My Friend For Bragging About How Much YA She Reads: Am I the Literary Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | October 31, 2024

Roxane Gay! Tom Wolfe! Love in the time of apocalypse! 24 books out in paperback this November!

Roxane Gay! Tom Wolfe! Love in the time of apocalypse! 24 books out in paperback this November!

By Gabrielle Bellot | October 31, 2024

Jess Walter on the Election

Jess Walter on the Election

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | October 31, 2024

The Annotated Nightstand: What Mike Fu is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Mike Fu is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Ray Bradbury, Elysha Chang, Tony Tulathimutte, and Others

By Diana Arterian | October 30, 2024

Best Reviewed
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  • Awake Awake
  • Etna
  • Triage
  • The Amateur
  • The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn
  • The Story of Your Life: How Social Media Shapes the Way We Experience Everything
  • The Cruelest Game: Chasing Greatness in Professional Tennis
  • The Ego Trip: Psychedelic Toads, a Trail of Deaths, and the Guru Who Peddled Transcendence
  • The Blue Flame

Channeling Curiosity Into Language: How a Diverse Array of Influences Feeds Poetic Development

By Mónica de la Torre | October 29, 2024

Philosopher of Change: How Henri Bergson’s Radical View of Reality Came to Be

By Emily Herring | October 29, 2024

Nick Hornby: The Older You Get, the Less Time You Have for Bad Books

By Nick Hornby | October 29, 2024

Why Close Reading is An Essential Part of Literary Translation

Why Close Reading is An Essential Part of Literary Translation

Damion Searls on What Emerging and Established Translators Can Learn From a Careful Examination of Texts

By Damion Searls | October 29, 2024

Our Burning Era: Reading George Stewart’s <em>Fire</em> in Fire Season

Our Burning Era: Reading George Stewart’s Fire in Fire Season

Ben Woollard on the Newly Reissued 1948 Novel

By Ben Woollard | October 29, 2024

Brothers Grimm! Gilmore Girls! Glory Edim! 18 new books out today.

Brothers Grimm! Gilmore Girls! Glory Edim! 18 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | October 29, 2024

Indie Booksellers and Lying Liars: This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast

Indie Booksellers and Lying Liars: This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast

Featuring Lefty Booksellers, Dodgy Paperbacks, and Some Thoughts on Fact-Checking

By The Lit Hub Podcast | October 25, 2024

Consider the Shipwreck: Ten Books on Maritime Disasters and Ecological Collapse

Consider the Shipwreck: Ten Books on Maritime Disasters and Ecological Collapse

Eiren Caffall Recommends Herman Melville, Sebastian Junger, Diana Preston, and More

By Eiren Caffall | October 25, 2024

Love Learned Through Pain: On Why We Need to Record and Respect Grief

Love Learned Through Pain: On Why We Need to Record and Respect Grief

Ariana Reines Remembers Her Mother's Passing in a World of Increasing Technological Numbness

By Ariana Reines | October 25, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“A timely, distinctive description of the haunted lives of refugees.”

By Book Marks | October 24, 2024

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