The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2024

The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2024

“He has chosen to be a farm stand that serves salty, fatty, sugary pseudo-thinking.”

By Book Marks | December 17, 2024

Betsy Fagin on the Undivided Self, Mystical Verse, and Reimagining Hemingway and Kerouac

Betsy Fagin on the Undivided Self, Mystical Verse, and Reimagining Hemingway and Kerouac

The Author of “Self-driving” in Conversation with Peter Mishler

By Peter Mishler | December 17, 2024

Weike Wang on Exploring Cultural Contrasts in Fiction

Weike Wang on Exploring Cultural Contrasts in Fiction

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Rental House”

By Jane Ciabattari | December 17, 2024

Blake Butler! A Dostoevskyian Turkish classic! Giftable editions! 10 new books out today.

Blake Butler! A Dostoevskyian Turkish classic! Giftable editions! 10 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | December 17, 2024

Looking Back at the Long Year in Gaza

Looking Back at the Long Year in Gaza

On the Impact of—and Response to—14 Months of Israel’s Assault on Gaza

By Literary Hub | December 16, 2024

The Ultimate Passive-Aggressive Holiday Gift: Why Self-Help Books Today Are Failing Readers

The Ultimate Passive-Aggressive Holiday Gift: Why Self-Help Books Today Are Failing Readers

Ian Williams Offers Less Meta, Less Rule-Based Ways to Approach Difficult Conversations

By Ian Williams | December 16, 2024

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The Art of Watching and the Art of Being Watched: On Sophie Calle’s The Sleepers

By Karla Kelsey | December 16, 2024

This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: On the Reading Habits of Luigi Mangione

By The Lit Hub Podcast | December 13, 2024

How Walter Benjamin’s Iconic Antifascist Essay Escaped Europe

By Ed Simon | December 13, 2024

Goodbye to All That, Twitter Edition

Goodbye to All That, Twitter Edition

Maris Kreizman Encourages You to Head Over to Bluesky to Make Fun of This Piece

By Maris Kreizman | December 12, 2024

The Annotated Nightstand: What Brandon Shimoda Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Brandon Shimoda Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Sharon Sliwinski, Samih al-Qasim, Mike Davis, and Others

By Diana Arterian | December 12, 2024

Molly Redden on Trump’s Plan to Seize Spending Power

Molly Redden on Trump’s Plan to Seize Spending Power

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | December 12, 2024

Bear It Somehow: Our Year in Family Reading

Bear It Somehow: Our Year in Family Reading

Sara B. Franklin on Telling the Truth (and Making It Bearable)

By Sara B. Franklin | December 11, 2024

Writers I Have Met; Or, On Learning That Cormac McCarthy Was a Creep

Writers I Have Met; Or, On Learning That Cormac McCarthy Was a Creep

Nathan Deuel Wonders What We Really Need From Our Literary Heroes

By Nathan Deuel | December 11, 2024

A Classic Chronicle of Korean America: On Kim Ronyoung’s <em>Clay Walls</em>

A Classic Chronicle of Korean America: On Kim Ronyoung’s Clay Walls

David S. Cho Explores Ideas of Homeland, Belonging and Identity in a Pioneering Contribution to Asian American Literature

By David S. Cho | December 11, 2024

The Best Reviewed Fiction of 2024

The Best Reviewed Fiction of 2024

Featuring Louise Erdrich, Kaveh Akbar, Tommy Orange, Rita Bullwinkel, Garth Greenwell, and More

By Book Marks | December 10, 2024

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