5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“It reads like the unfinished, damaged novel that it is.”

By Book Marks | January 16, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Aria Aber Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Aria Aber Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Han Kang, Isabella Hammad, Alice Notley, and Others

By Diana Arterian | January 16, 2025

Charles Baxter on the Dangers of Knowing the Future

Charles Baxter on the Dangers of Knowing the Future

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | January 16, 2025

The Danger of Lowering Your Heart’s Volume: On the Writing of Ross Gay and Amy Leach

The Danger of Lowering Your Heart’s Volume: On the Writing of Ross Gay and Amy Leach

Criticism by Jane Zwart, From the Latest Issue of “Image” Magazine

By Jane Zwart | January 15, 2025

The Seven Books I Took With Me When Evacuating Los Angeles

The Seven Books I Took With Me When Evacuating Los Angeles

Carolyn Kellogg on Realizing the Value of the Irreplaceable

By Carolyn Kellogg | January 15, 2025

The Forgers Hall of Fame: A Brief History of Literary Fakes and Frauds

The Forgers Hall of Fame: A Brief History of Literary Fakes and Frauds

Bradford Morrow Investigates a World of Deception, Duplicitousness, and a Great Deal of Skill

By Bradford Morrow | January 14, 2025

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  • In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man: A Memoir
  • Nonesuch
  • Whidbey
  • A Scandal in Königsberg
  • The Quantity Theory of Morality
  • Partially Devoured: How Night of the Living Dead Saved My Life and Changed the World

From Ancient Troy to 1990s Tennessee: Maria Zoccola on Creating an Afterlife For Homer’s Helen

By Maria Zoccola | January 14, 2025

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

By Teddy Wayne | January 14, 2025

In Defense of the Messy Queers: Why “Good” Representation Isn”t Enough

By Edward Underhill | January 14, 2025

Pico Iyer! Helen of Troy in the '90s! An African history of Africa! 27 new books out today.

Pico Iyer! Helen of Troy in the '90s! An African history of Africa! 27 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | January 14, 2025

Danielle Legros Georges on Docupoetics, the Nuances of Haiti, and Letter-Writing as Poetry

Danielle Legros Georges on Docupoetics, the Nuances of Haiti, and Letter-Writing as Poetry

The “Author of Three Leaves, Three Roots: Poems on the Haiti–Congo” Story in Conversation with Poets.org

By Literary Hub | January 13, 2025

He Got Away With Everything: Reading <em>True Grit</em> After the Reelection of Donald Trump

He Got Away With Everything: Reading True Grit After the Reelection of Donald Trump

Piers Gelly Considers Charles Portis’s Masterpiece in the Long Shadow of 2016

By Piers Gelly | January 10, 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 Adam Haslett, Spotify, Karissa Chen, and More

By Book Marks | January 10, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The narrator’s voice is an extraordinary hybrid of a boy’s plaintive innocence and a man’s wry reflection.”

By Book Marks | January 9, 2025

Diversity Syndrome: On Publishing’s Relentless Pigeonholing of Black Writers

Diversity Syndrome: On Publishing’s Relentless Pigeonholing of Black Writers

Naomi Day Examines What It’s Like to Be a Black Writer of Speculative Fiction

By Naomi Day | January 9, 2025

I Want to Write About This Jerk Who Ghosted Me: Am I the Literary Asshole?

I Want to Write About This Jerk Who Ghosted Me: Am I the Literary Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | January 9, 2025

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