5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“You feel something vital and profound prowling around in the darkness beneath.”

By Book Marks | August 22, 2024

The Annotated Nightstand: What Danez Smith is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Danez Smith is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Andre Perry, Nicole Sealey, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, and Others

By Diana Arterian | August 22, 2024

If You Skip a Friend’s Book Launch Are You the Literary Asshole?

If You Skip a Friend’s Book Launch Are You the Literary Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | August 22, 2024

Iris Jamahl Dunkle and Kelly McMasters on Biographical Ethics

Iris Jamahl Dunkle and Kelly McMasters on Biographical Ethics

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 22, 2024

Glynne Walley on the Hakkenden

Glynne Walley on the Hakkenden

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | August 22, 2024

Writing Happiness: Why It’s Worth It to Look on the Bright Side of Stories

Writing Happiness: Why It’s Worth It to Look on the Bright Side of Stories

Maribeth Fischer on the Joys of Creating Joyful Fiction

By Maribeth Fischer | August 21, 2024

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • 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

m. nourbeSe philip on Kamau Brathwaite's Born to Slow Horses

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | August 21, 2024

Fragile Yet Eternal: How Audre Lorde Continues to Inspire

By Alexis Pauline Gumbs | August 20, 2024

Lena Valencia on Chronicling the Beauty and Danger of the Desert

By Jane Ciabattari | August 20, 2024

Danez Smith! Audre Lorde! Kwame Dawes! 27 new books out today.

Danez Smith! Audre Lorde! Kwame Dawes! 27 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | August 20, 2024

Sofia Samatar on Collage, Literary Community, and the Stunning Loneliness of Publishing

Sofia Samatar on Collage, Literary Community, and the Stunning Loneliness of Publishing

Liska Jacobs in Conversation with the Author of “Opacities”

By Liska Jacobs | August 19, 2024

Choose Your Own Adventure: On the Limits of Personal Agency in Migrant Fiction

Choose Your Own Adventure: On the Limits of Personal Agency in Migrant Fiction

Ruben Reyes Jr. Considers the Role of Systemic Power Structures Both On and Off the Page

By Ruben Reyes Jr. | August 19, 2024

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring New Titles by Jo Hamya, Yoko Ogawa, Richard J. Evans, and More

By Book Marks | August 16, 2024

Evan S. Connell at 100: Ever the Elusive, Surprising, and Singular Conjurer

Evan S. Connell at 100: Ever the Elusive, Surprising, and Singular Conjurer

Steve Paul Remembers a Quiet Giant of American Literature

By Steve Paul | August 16, 2024

Beyond Mothering: Considering Ann Patchett’s Novels of Maternal Ambivalence

Beyond Mothering: Considering Ann Patchett’s Novels of Maternal Ambivalence

Monica Cardenas on a Literary Antidote to Society's Oppressive Prescription for Motherhood

By Monica Cardenas | August 15, 2024

Despite the Chaos of the Presidential Election, There Will Be More Than Enough Books This Fall

Despite the Chaos of the Presidential Election, There Will Be More Than Enough Books This Fall

Maris Kreizman on this Fall’s Incredible Crop of Fiction

By Maris Kreizman | August 15, 2024

Page 112 of 473

  • Literary Hub

    Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature


    Masthead

    About

    Sign Up For Our Newsletters

    How to Pitch Lit Hub

    Advertisers: Contact Us

    Privacy Policy

    Support Lit Hub - Become A Member

    • If you buy books linked on our site, Lit Hub may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores.