Kelly Link in Praise of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Genuine Magic

Kelly Link in Praise of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Genuine Magic

“It is striking how resonant Le Guin’s work remains even as the future she describes recedes into our past.”

By Kelly Link | January 31, 2023

Henry Louis Gates Jr. on What Makes a “Classic” African American Text

Henry Louis Gates Jr. on What Makes a “Classic” African American Text

“They reveal the human universal through the African American particular: All true art, all classics, do this.”

By Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | January 31, 2023

Dawn Raffel on Constructing Cities, Real and Imagined

Dawn Raffel on Constructing Cities, Real and Imagined

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of Boundless as the Sky

By Jane Ciabattari | January 31, 2023

Dean Koontz on How to Sell 500 Million Books and Why ChatGPT Will Never Replicate the

Dean Koontz on How to Sell 500 Million Books and Why ChatGPT Will Never Replicate the "Soul" of the Human Author

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | January 31, 2023

10 new books to cherish this week.

10 new books to cherish this week.

By Katie Yee | January 31, 2023

Revisiting Svetlana Alexievich’s <em>The Unwomanly Face of War</em> During Russia’s War on Ukraine

Revisiting Svetlana Alexievich’s The Unwomanly Face of War During Russia’s War on Ukraine

This Week From the Lit Century Podcast

By Lit Century | January 31, 2023

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Joyride: A Memoir
  • A Guardian and a Thief
  • Minor Black Figures
  • True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen
  • The Wayfinder
  • Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat To) the Modern Dictionary

Beyond Beaches and Cocktails: A Reading List of the Caribbean

By Eleanor Shearer | January 31, 2023

AudioFile’s Best
Audiobooks of January

By Book Marks | January 31, 2023

“I Wanted to Write the Book I Would Hand to My 18-Year-Old Self.” Kevin Maloney on Sex as a Spiritual Quest

By I'm a Writer But | January 31, 2023

25 Historical Crime, Mystery, and Horror Novels to Look Forward To In 2023

25 Historical Crime, Mystery, and Horror Novels to Look Forward To In 2023

Sorry Gen X: The 90s Are Now Fair Game for Historical Fiction

By Molly Odintz | January 30, 2023

Reading <em>Tristram Shandy</em> in an Age of Distraction

Reading Tristram Shandy in an Age of Distraction

Sarah Moorhouse on Laurence Sterne’s Novel of Rabbit Holes and Procrastination

By Sarah Moorhouse | January 30, 2023

10 Essential Questions About <em>Moby-Dick</em>

10 Essential Questions About Moby-Dick

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | January 30, 2023

Shelf Talkers: What the Booksellers Are Reading at Left Bank Books

Shelf Talkers: What the Booksellers Are Reading at Left Bank Books

Recommendations from Booksellers in St. Louis, MO

By Literary Hub | January 27, 2023

12 YA Mysteries, Thrillers, and Horror Novels to Check Out in 2023

12 YA Mysteries, Thrillers, and Horror Novels to Check Out in 2023

Social Thrillers, High-Concept Heists, and Plenty of Queer Apocalypse Thrillers and Romances

By Molly Odintz | January 27, 2023

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

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

Featuring New Titles by Paul Harding, Janet Malcolm, Bret Easton Ellis, Colm Tóibín, and More

By Book Marks | January 27, 2023

Peter Turchi on the Power of the Literary Aside

Peter Turchi on the Power of the Literary Aside

In Praise of the Unexpected Path

By Peter Turchi | January 27, 2023

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