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 Kaveh Akbar, Frantz Fanon, Elizabeth Gonzalez James, and More

By Book Marks | January 26, 2024

Author as Illusionist: William Maxwell on Literary Magic and Refusing to Give Up as a Writer

Author as Illusionist: William Maxwell on Literary Magic and Refusing to Give Up as a Writer

Alec Wilkinson Introduces Maxwell’s Speech at Smith College in 1955

By William Maxwell | January 26, 2024

So Fetch, So Fierce: In Praise of All the Literary Mean Girls

So Fetch, So Fierce: In Praise of All the Literary Mean Girls

Jennifer Keishin Armstrong Recommends Mona Awad, Kirthana Ramisetti, Anna Bogutskaya, and More

By Jennifer Keishin Armstrong | January 26, 2024

More (And More) Meat: How Doctors Treated Diabetes Before Insulin Therapy

More (And More) Meat: How Doctors Treated Diabetes Before Insulin Therapy

Gary Taubes on the History of Diet-Based Remedies For Chronic Illness

By Gary Taubes | January 26, 2024

“Self-Portrait as Sister.” A Poem by Ae Hee Lee

“Self-Portrait as Sister.” A Poem by Ae Hee Lee

From the Collection “Asterism”

By Ae Hee Lee | January 26, 2024

The Annotated Nightstand: What Brandi Wells is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Brandi Wells is Reading Now and Next

Featuring George Eliot, Jeanette Winterson, Julie Otsuka, and More

By Diana Arterian | January 26, 2024

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • 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

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks | January 25, 2024

The Revolutionary Stranger: How Frantz Fanon Put Theory Into Practice

By Adam Shatz | January 25, 2024

How America’s First Cinematic Black Vampire Subverted Stereotypes

By Odie Henderson | January 25, 2024

Life a Cold Crematorium: A Long-Lost Memoir from a Holocaust Survivor

Life a Cold Crematorium: A Long-Lost Memoir from a Holocaust Survivor

József Debreczeni Recounts a Terrifying Train Ride from Hungary to Auschwitz with His Fellow Prisoners

By József Debreczeni | January 25, 2024

What Virginia Woolf’s “Dreadnought Hoax” Tells Us About Ourselves

What Virginia Woolf’s “Dreadnought Hoax” Tells Us About Ourselves

Danell Jones Grapples With a Beloved Author’s Casual Racism

By Danell Jones | January 25, 2024

Ed Park on Korea’s Past, Real and Imagined

Ed Park on Korea’s Past, Real and Imagined

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | January 25, 2024

David Cooper on the Czech Manuscripts Hoax

David Cooper on the Czech Manuscripts Hoax

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | January 25, 2024

Re(re)vision: Laurie Frankel on Throwing Away Half Her Book While Writing It

Re(re)vision: Laurie Frankel on Throwing Away Half Her Book While Writing It

The Author of “Family Family” Listens to Angel and Demon Alike As She Revises

By Laurie Frankel | January 24, 2024

Of Unborn Ghosts and Ancestral Murder; Or, Celebrating the Chaos That Led to Us

Of Unborn Ghosts and Ancestral Murder; Or, Celebrating the Chaos That Led to Us

Brian Klaas Considers the Fragile Foundations of Our Individual and Collective Existence

By Brian Klaas | January 24, 2024

Megan Hunter on the Experience of Bringing a Novel to the Big Screen

Megan Hunter on the Experience of Bringing a Novel to the Big Screen

The Author of “The End We Start From” Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | January 24, 2024

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