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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“There is not a banal sentence or purple patch to be found in this book, which only a poet could have written.”

By Book Marks | January 11, 2024

How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Rose Up and Won an Underdog Political Victory

How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Rose Up and Won an Underdog Political Victory

Joshua Green Details AOC’s Grassroots Campaign Against the Incumbent Joseph Crowley

By Joshua Green | January 11, 2024

The Element That Defines America: Ten Great American Poems (and a Whole Book of Poetry) About Fire

The Element That Defines America: Ten Great American Poems (and a Whole Book of Poetry) About Fire

Katie Peterson Recommends Work by Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Douglas Kearney, and More

By Katie Peterson | January 11, 2024

“In the Countryside.” A Poem-Comic by Lauren Haldeman and Jesse Nathan

“In the Countryside.” A Poem-Comic by Lauren Haldeman and Jesse Nathan

An Unclassifiable Work of Art

By Jesse Nathan and Lauren Haldeman | January 11, 2024

Selfishly Curated Experiences: How Planning Trips Can Inform Novel Writing

Selfishly Curated Experiences: How Planning Trips Can Inform Novel Writing

İnci Atrek on Channeling the Intense Emotions of Travel Into Fiction

By İnci Atrek | January 11, 2024

Lauren Groff on Opening a Bookstore in Florida

Lauren Groff on Opening a Bookstore in Florida

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | January 11, 2024

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David Brooks on Human Connection

By Just the Right Book | January 11, 2024

Thicker Than Water: A Brief History of Family Violence in Appalachian Kentucky

By Angie Romines | January 10, 2024

The Shadow Self of Domestic Stories: A Reading List of Novels Set in Hotels

By Maria Hummel | January 10, 2024

Autofiction Without the Auto: On Javier Cercas’ Outward-Looking, Self-Centered Fiction

Autofiction Without the Auto: On Javier Cercas’ Outward-Looking, Self-Centered Fiction

Bécquer Seguín Considers the Emergence of a New Type of Literature in Post-Franco Spain

By Bécquer Seguín | January 10, 2024

On the Long, Lonely Apprenticeship of the Writing Life

On the Long, Lonely Apprenticeship of the Writing Life

Kayla Min Andrews Remembers Her Mother, Author Katherine Min

By Kayla Min Andrews | January 10, 2024

Michelle Williams on Making Things that Feel Definite

Michelle Williams on Making Things that Feel Definite

This Week on the Talk Easy Podcast with Sam Fragoso

By Talk Easy | January 10, 2024

Jonathan van Belle on What Work Meant to Thoreau

Jonathan van Belle on What Work Meant to Thoreau

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | January 10, 2024

A Sanctuary Made of Books: Stephen McCauley’s Love Letter to Writing in Libraries

A Sanctuary Made of Books: Stephen McCauley’s Love Letter to Writing in Libraries

The Author of “You Only Call When You're in Trouble” on Growing Up in a Non-Reading Family, Publishing Deadlines, and More

By Stephen McCauley | January 9, 2024

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

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

Featuring Hisham Matar, Aube Rey Lescure, Nathaniel Stein and More

By Teddy Wayne | January 9, 2024

Karl Marlantes on Chronicling the Early Cold War Years

Karl Marlantes on Chronicling the Early Cold War Years

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Cold Victory”

By Jane Ciabattari | January 9, 2024

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