The 38 Best Books We Read in 2023

The 38 Best Books We Read in 2023

Lit Hub Staffers on the Year’s Best Reading Experiences

By Literary Hub | December 23, 2023

Blake Butler on (Not) Finding Your Voice

Blake Butler on (Not) Finding Your Voice

“Your only job is to find a way to secure enough time to keep throwing yourself into the void.”

By Blake Butler | December 22, 2023

“Dead Cats Continue to Meow.” A Poem by Nasser Rabah

“Dead Cats Continue to Meow.” A Poem by Nasser Rabah

“One morning, we didn’t find homes, just heaps of red words piled like dirty clothes on sidewalks...”

By Nasser Rabah | December 22, 2023

David James Duncan on Choosing Between Art and Activism

David James Duncan on Choosing Between Art and Activism

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | December 22, 2023

We Are All Witches: Elizabeth Willis and Nancy Bowen on the Contemporary Echoes of Centuries-Old Fears

We Are All Witches: Elizabeth Willis and Nancy Bowen on the Contemporary Echoes of Centuries-Old Fears

E. Tracy Grinnell Talks to the Poet-Artist Team Behind Spectral Evidence

By E. Tracy Grinnell | December 21, 2023

<em>All of Us Strangers</em> Confronts the Dangers of Spinning Trauma Into Art

All of Us Strangers Confronts the Dangers of Spinning Trauma Into Art

Andrew Quintana on Director Andrew Haigh’s New Masterpiece

By Andrew Quintana | December 21, 2023

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  • They
  • This Is Not About Us
  • Eradication: A Fable
  • The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief
  • The Last Kings of Hollywood: Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg—And the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema
  • End of Days: Ruby Ridge, the Apocalypse, and the Unmaking of America

The Annotated Nightstand: What Sabrina Orah Mark Is Reading Now and Next

By Diana Arterian | December 21, 2023

Lydia Kiesling on Making the Lists—or Not

By Fiction Non Fiction | December 21, 2023

Tyriek White on Juxtaposing Brooklyn's History With Lived Experience

By The Maris Review | December 21, 2023

How Long Will <em>Schindler’s List</em> Endure as a Public Memorial to The Holocaust?

How Long Will Schindler’s List Endure as a Public Memorial to The Holocaust?

Paul Morton Revisits Spielberg’s Controversial Film, 30 Years Later

By Paul Morton | December 20, 2023

Between Anxiety and Hope: On the Cautious Optimism of Lewis Thomas

Between Anxiety and Hope: On the Cautious Optimism of Lewis Thomas

Sukhada Tatke Remembers the Essayist and His Scientific and Creative Vision

By Sukhada Tatke | December 20, 2023

The Complicated Experience of Reading a Late Friend’s Novel

The Complicated Experience of Reading a Late Friend’s Novel

“I learned later that he had left a piece of paper with four stark words on it: ’Suicide notes are tacky.‘”

By Matthew Hays | December 20, 2023

Mythologized Impartiality: A Conversation About the Supreme Court's Checkered Past and Future

Mythologized Impartiality: A Conversation About the Supreme Court's Checkered Past and Future

Daniel Kiel and Lori Ringhand Speak with Stanford University Press

By Literary Hub | December 20, 2023

Andrew Pettegree on Books and War

Andrew Pettegree on Books and War

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | December 20, 2023

Jane Smiley on What It’s Like to Have Your Book Banned

Jane Smiley on What It’s Like to Have Your Book Banned

In Conversation with Tai Caputo From Iowa City’s City High School Student Paper

By Tai Caputo | December 19, 2023

David Remnick on the Continued Gift of the Written Word

David Remnick on the Continued Gift of the Written Word

This Week on the Talk Easy Podcast with Sam Fragoso

By Talk Easy | December 19, 2023

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