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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 New Titles by Kevin Barry, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Laura Van den Berg, and More

By Book Marks | July 12, 2024

“I Refused to Be a War Bride.” Or, Why I Set My Novels in Nova Scotia

“I Refused to Be a War Bride.” Or, Why I Set My Novels in Nova Scotia

American Howard Norman on Finding His Literary Home in the Canadian Maritimes

By Howard Norman | July 12, 2024

Leveling the Legal Playing Field: Why Everyone Deserves Their Day in Court

Leveling the Legal Playing Field: Why Everyone Deserves Their Day in Court

Abbe Smith on the Importance of Criminal Defense Attorneys to America’s Judicial Ecosystem

By Abbe Smith | July 12, 2024

Ayeşgül Savaş on Creating Your Story’s Clock

Ayeşgül Savaş on Creating Your Story’s Clock

“My book ran to the meter of many internal measures of time that make up our routines.”

By Aysegül Savas | July 12, 2024

Robert Petkoff on Finding the Narrative Voice

Robert Petkoff on Finding the Narrative Voice

In conversation with Jo Reed on Behind the Mic

By Behind the Mic | July 12, 2024

Believing Sylvia Plath: How Our Culture Continues to Blame the Victims of Male Violence

Believing Sylvia Plath: How Our Culture Continues to Blame the Victims of Male Violence

Emily Van Duyne on the Ways Misogyny Masks Itself and Slithers On, Then and Now

By Emily Van Duyne | July 11, 2024

Best Reviewed
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  • House of Day, House of Night
  • The Award
  • Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
  • Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
  • Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
  • The Six Loves of James I

My Local Indie Won’t Stock My Buzzy Debut and I’m Pissed: Am I the Literary Asshole?

By Kristen Arnett | July 11, 2024

Inside COVID’s Ground Zero: Wuhan, China Before and After Mass Catastrophe

By Peter Hessler | July 11, 2024

The Weight We Carry: How Diet Culture Influences Disordered Eating

By Emma Specter | July 11, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Suicide: It’s a sin. Yet the M*A*S*H theme song, at certain moments, seems to drift from this book’s spine.”

By Book Marks | July 11, 2024

Setting the Tone: How Listening to Music Can Inspire Fiction Writers

Setting the Tone: How Listening to Music Can Inspire Fiction Writers

Liz Riggs Considers the Similarities and Differences Between Song Lyrics and Narrative Prose

By Liz Riggs | July 11, 2024

“Tell It To Me Singing.” On Diaspora, Community and Cuban-American Stories

“Tell It To Me Singing.” On Diaspora, Community and Cuban-American Stories

Tita Ramírez Explores the Ways Popular Idioms Can Resonate Across Generations

By Tita Ramirez | July 11, 2024

Phil Elwood on Doing PR for All the Worst Humans

Phil Elwood on Doing PR for All the Worst Humans

In Conversation with V.V. Ganeshananthan and Matt Gallagher on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | July 11, 2024

Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2024, Part Two

Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2024, Part Two

193 Books to Read in the Second Half of the Year

By Emily Temple | July 10, 2024

A Painful, Urgent Reimagining: Emily van Duyne on Writing a New History of Sylvia Plath’s Last Years

A Painful, Urgent Reimagining: Emily van Duyne on Writing a New History of Sylvia Plath’s Last Years

Sarah Viren in Conversation with the Author of “Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation”

By Sarah Viren | July 10, 2024

What Happens When an American Family Moves To a Tiny French Village?

What Happens When an American Family Moves To a Tiny French Village?

Steve Hoffman on Coping With Culture Shock In the South of France

By Steve Hoffman | July 10, 2024

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