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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Her books for adults are rich and complex, revealing the stickiness of human coexistence.”

By Book Marks | February 13, 2025

Antifascist, Feminist, Timeless: On Alba de Céspedes’s <em>There’s No Turning Back</em>

Antifascist, Feminist, Timeless: On Alba de Céspedes’s There’s No Turning Back

Ann Goldstein: “Even if the world has changed, her characters’ struggles with becoming themselves continue to be familiar.”

By Ann Goldstein | February 13, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Sonya Walger Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Sonya Walger Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Niall Williams, Mary Oliver, Muriel Spark, and Others

By Diana Arterian | February 13, 2025

Journalists Michael Scherer and Ashley Parker on Trump and the Tech Oligarchs

Journalists Michael Scherer and Ashley Parker on Trump and the Tech Oligarchs

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | February 13, 2025

Looking the Palestinian in the Eye

Looking the Palestinian in the Eye

Nicki Kattoura on Mohammed El-Kurd’s “Perfect Victims”

By Nicki Kattoura | February 12, 2025

An American Faerie Queene: The Uncertain Lives of Nathaniel and Una Hawthorne

An American Faerie Queene: The Uncertain Lives of Nathaniel and Una Hawthorne

Megan Marshall on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Family, Edmund Spenser, and Biographical Lies

By Megan Marshall | February 12, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Big Kiss, Bye-Bye
  • Bad Bad Girl
  • The Ten Year Affair
  • Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
  • Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
  • Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution

Olivia Laing on Charlotte Brontë's Villette

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | February 12, 2025

Kaitlyn Greenidge on Making Artifacts

By The Critic and Her Publics | February 11, 2025

Amanda Peters on Chronicling the Native Experience Through Short Fiction

By Jane Ciabattari | February 11, 2025

Mohammed El-Kurd on the Complexities of Victimhood, Resilience, and Portraying Palestinian Genocide

Mohammed El-Kurd on the Complexities of Victimhood, Resilience, and Portraying Palestinian Genocide

Hanna Phifer in Conversation with the Author of “Perfect Victims”

By Hanna Phifer | February 11, 2025

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Featuring Haley Mlotek, Shane McCrae, Maggie Su and More

By Teddy Wayne | February 11, 2025

Truth and Reconciliation: <br>Ten Books That Explore South Africa’s Identity

Truth and Reconciliation:
Ten Books That Explore South Africa’s Identity

Lauren Francis-Sharma Recommends Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh, J. M. Coetzee, Mohale Mashigo, and More

By Lauren Francis-Sharma | February 11, 2025

Eve L. Ewing! Pankaj Mishra! A history of nudity! 27 new books out today.

Eve L. Ewing! Pankaj Mishra! A history of nudity! 27 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | February 11, 2025

The Time a Couple Crazy Kids—Ford Madox Ford, Hemingway—Started a Journal in Paris

The Time a Couple Crazy Kids—Ford Madox Ford, Hemingway—Started a Journal in Paris

And It Was Almost Called “The Paris Review”

By Nick Ripatrazone | February 7, 2025

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 Geraldine Brooks, Ali Smith, Hanif Kureishi, and More

By Book Marks | February 7, 2025

Does Any of This Matter? Am I the Literary Asshole?

Does Any of This Matter? Am I the Literary Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | February 6, 2025

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