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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“In less than 200 pages, the book manages to be part autobiography, part anthropological investigation and part feminist tract.”

By Book Marks | August 15, 2024

Francine Prose on What 1974 Can Teach Us About 2024

Francine Prose on What 1974 Can Teach Us About 2024

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 15, 2024

Zen, with Legos: How Playing with Blocks Helped Colleen McKeegan Make Sense of Bad Reviews

Zen, with Legos: How Playing with Blocks Helped Colleen McKeegan Make Sense of Bad Reviews

The Author of “Rip Tide” on Surviving the Chaos of Publishing

By Colleen McKeegan | August 15, 2024

To Dream of Beauty: On the Possibility of Afrofuturism as a Solution to Climate Catastrophe

To Dream of Beauty: On the Possibility of Afrofuturism as a Solution to Climate Catastrophe

Christopher J. Schell Considers the Intersections of Systemic Racism and Systematic Destruction of the Environment

By Christopher J. Schell | August 15, 2024

What Clickbait Tells Us About the Evolution of Print and Online Media

What Clickbait Tells Us About the Evolution of Print and Online Media

Holly Baxter on the Virtues and Pitfalls of Journalism in the 21st Century

By Holly Baxter | August 15, 2024

The Annotated Nightstand: What Bill Schutt Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Bill Schutt Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Jim Carrol, Mary Roach, Hunter S. Thompson, and Others

By Diana Arterian | August 15, 2024

Best Reviewed
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  • Sleuth-Hound: The Case of the Real Sherlock Holmes
  • Emperor of Nothing: The Making of Larry David
  • I Can't Stop Thinking about Horses and Sex
  • Queen of Lombard Street
  • Paradise Burns
  • Doppelgänger
  • Hanging and Burning: A King Oliver Novel
  • Our Arab: On Longing, Belonging, and Hope
  • The Turning of Sally-Mae

Words of No Syllables: How Animals Bond With Their Human Caretakers

By Rosamund Young | August 14, 2024

The Moment When a Brain Surgeon Sees the Most Terrifying Diagnosis in Medicine

By Theodore H. Schwartz | August 14, 2024

“A Countrified Rumpelstiltskin.” On the Visceral, Versatile Stories of Brad Watson

By Snowden Wright | August 14, 2024

How the Prospect of Publishing Can Paralyze the Writing Process

How the Prospect of Publishing Can Paralyze the Writing Process

Sofia Samatar on Balancing Self-Compartmentalization With the Joy of Creation

By Sofia Samatar | August 14, 2024

Imagining Home: On Family, Place and Inheritance in South Asia and North America

Imagining Home: On Family, Place and Inheritance in South Asia and North America

Sadiya Ansari Considers the Impact and Legacy of Displacement After Partition

By Sadiya Ansari | August 14, 2024

Suyi Davies Okungbowa & Brenda Peynado on Futures Bleak and Hopeful

Suyi Davies Okungbowa & Brenda Peynado on Futures Bleak and Hopeful

Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre S04E02

By Tor Presents: Voyage into Genre | August 14, 2024

Scheherazade Was a Liar, Too: How Secrets Can Fuel Creative and Personal Exploration

Scheherazade Was a Liar, Too: How Secrets Can Fuel Creative and Personal Exploration

Navid Sinaki on Finding His Voice as a Young, Queer Iranian Immigrant

By Navid Sinaki | August 13, 2024

How Jacqueline Susann and Jackie Collins Changed the Face of Publishing

How Jacqueline Susann and Jackie Collins Changed the Face of Publishing

Gill Paul on Two Trailblazing Women Who Revolutionized the Book World

By Gill Paul | August 13, 2024

How Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson Defied Victorian Relationship Conventions

How Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson Defied Victorian Relationship Conventions

Camille Peri on the Creative and Romantic Partnership of a 19th-Century Literary Power Couple

By Camille Peri | August 13, 2024

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

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

Featuring Danzy Senna, Kristopher Jansma, Rosie Schaap and More

By Teddy Wayne | August 13, 2024

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