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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Joshua Ferris on Dan Chaon, Maggie Shipstead on Elif Batuman, Jeff VanderMeer on Kim Stanley Robinson, and more

By Book Marks | May 26, 2022

Buddhism’s <em>Dukkha</em> and Hamlet’s Dust: On Shakespeare’s Spiritual Wisdom

Buddhism’s Dukkha and Hamlet’s Dust: On Shakespeare’s Spiritual Wisdom

Lauren Shufran on How Reading Shakespeare Helped Her Better Read Herself

By Lauren Shufran | May 25, 2022

From Eve Babitz to Raven Leilani, Readings on Solipsistic, Transformative Love

From Eve Babitz to Raven Leilani, Readings on Solipsistic, Transformative Love

Lillian Fishman Recommends a Particular Kind of Absorbing Love Story

By Lillian Fishman | May 25, 2022

Sarah Ruhl Tries to Look at Grief Through the Lens of Form

Sarah Ruhl Tries to Look at Grief Through the Lens of Form

A Conversation with the Author of Love Poems in Quarantine

By Literary Hub | May 25, 2022

Jon Mooallem Writes in the Morning (Before the World Snuffs Out His Brief Glimmer of Positivity)

Jon Mooallem Writes in the Morning (Before the World Snuffs Out His Brief Glimmer of Positivity)

The Author of Serious Face Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | May 25, 2022

Morgan Talty on Indigenous Literature, Penobscot Culture, and the Villain of Colonialism

Morgan Talty on Indigenous Literature, Penobscot Culture, and the Villain of Colonialism

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds

By Thresholds | May 25, 2022

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  • The Rest of Our Lives
  • Call Me Ishmaelle
  • Homeschooled: A Memoir
  • The Spy in the Archive: How One Man Tried to Kill the KGB
  • Watching Over Her
  • American Reich: A Murder in Orange County, Neo-Nazis, and a New Age of Hate

Kathryn Miles on the Emotional Toll of Investigating Tragedies—and Why She Carries on

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | May 25, 2022

Elif Batuman on the Need For Novels (And When Male Writers Describe Oral Sex)

By Kristin Iversen | May 24, 2022

On the Ball: In Memory of Roger Angell, 1920-2022

By Michael Lindgren | May 24, 2022

Is Summer Finally Here? 8 Books Set on the Jersey Shore

Is Summer Finally Here? 8 Books Set on the Jersey Shore

Katie Runde Recommends Some of Her Favorites

By Katie Runde | May 24, 2022

15 new books to help you get through the week.

15 new books to help you get through the week.

By Katie Yee | May 24, 2022

Elizabeth Hardwick on the Capable Coolness of Faye Dunaway

Elizabeth Hardwick on the Capable Coolness of Faye Dunaway

“She seems to be expressing a solitariness that is unusual, anti-romantic.”

By Elizabeth Hardwick | May 23, 2022

How Contemporary Chinese Literature Made Western Modernism Its Own

How Contemporary Chinese Literature Made Western Modernism Its Own

Yan Lianke on the Concept of “Mythorealism”

By Yan Lianke and Carlos Rojas | May 23, 2022

Funny Books for an Unfunny World: A Reading List

Funny Books for an Unfunny World: A Reading List

Dennard Dayle on the Books That Embrace “Maniacal Laughter”

By Dennard Dayle | May 23, 2022

Considering the Morals of Kierkegaard’s <em>Fear and Trembling</em>

Considering the Morals of Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling

From the The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | May 23, 2022

Naming the Unnamed: On the Many Uses of the Letter X

Naming the Unnamed: On the Many Uses of the Letter X

Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza Considers X as a Symbol of Prohibition and Expansion

By Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza | May 20, 2022

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