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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The result is both addictive and slightly sickening.”

By Book Marks | May 18, 2023

Anne Berest’s Best Story Came From Deep in Her Family’s Past

Anne Berest’s Best Story Came From Deep in Her Family’s Past

“Every life is a novel for those who are curious enough.”

By Literary Hub | May 17, 2023

Just on the Horizon: Nine Utopian Books to Deprogram Our Brains

Just on the Horizon: Nine Utopian Books to Deprogram Our Brains

Kristen R. Ghodsee Recommends Thomas More, Aldus Huxley, and More

By Kristen R. Ghodsee | May 17, 2023

We Are Not Alone: Phillip Maciak on His Summer Obsessing Over UFO Videos

We Are Not Alone: Phillip Maciak on His Summer Obsessing Over UFO Videos

Or, When Screens Helpfully Absorb Our (Misplaced) Anxieties

By Phillip Maciak | May 17, 2023

Beyond Metaphor: Inside the First Month of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

Beyond Metaphor: Inside the First Month of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

Serhiy Zhadan Records the Emergence of a New Reality in Kharkiv

By Serhiy Zhadan, Reilly Costigan‑Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler | May 17, 2023

“I Kiss My Ghosts’ Sticky Foreheads.” Jane Wong on Poetic Ambivalence and Feeding on the Past

“I Kiss My Ghosts’ Sticky Foreheads.” Jane Wong on Poetic Ambivalence and Feeding on the Past

“Each day, I rub my eyes with poetry, bleary in foggy morning light.”

By Jane Wong | May 17, 2023

Best Reviewed
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  • The Award
  • Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
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  • The Six Loves of James I

The Annotated Nightstand: What Natalie Eilbert is Reading Now and Next

By Diana Arterian | May 17, 2023

David Fleming: Did Thomas Jefferson Steal the Words of the Declaration of Independence from Irish and Scottish Migrants to North Carolina?

By Keen On | May 17, 2023

Caribbean Fiction Doesn’t Need to Be Altered for American Audiences

By Breanne Mc Ivor | May 17, 2023

Juliet and Kelly Starrett on the Most Essential Habits to Help Us Move Freely and Live Fully

Juliet and Kelly Starrett on the Most Essential Habits to Help Us Move Freely and Live Fully

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | May 17, 2023

Stephen Vladeck on how the Supreme Court is Using Stealth Rulings to Undermine the American Republic

Stephen Vladeck on how the Supreme Court is Using Stealth Rulings to Undermine the American Republic

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | May 17, 2023

Abraham Verghese on Marrying Medicine With Literature

Abraham Verghese on Marrying Medicine With Literature

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of The Covenant of Water

By Jane Ciabattari | May 16, 2023

Alexis Pauline Gumbs on Audre Lorde’s <em>The Black Unicorn</em>

Alexis Pauline Gumbs on Audre Lorde’s The Black Unicorn

In Conversation for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | May 16, 2023

Emma Cline: No One Captures Memory Like Mary Gaitskill

Emma Cline: No One Captures Memory Like Mary Gaitskill

The Author of The Guest Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | May 16, 2023

The Character-Revealing Power of Having a Play Within a Novel

The Character-Revealing Power of Having a Play Within a Novel

Olivia Wolfgang-Smith Explores Metadrama, Defying Genre, and the Performances We Do On and Off the Page

By Olivia Wolfgang-Smith | May 16, 2023

Samantha Irby Shares Two Secrets About How She Does What She Does

Samantha Irby Shares Two Secrets About How She Does What She Does

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | May 16, 2023

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