5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"Tapping into the sticky stuff of humanity, each story is a gift"

By Book Marks | August 3, 2023

Miles Johnson on The Secret World of International Crime

Miles Johnson on The Secret World of International Crime

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 3, 2023

Julie Schumacher on Thirty Years of Correspondence With Her Late Friend, Melissa Bank

Julie Schumacher on Thirty Years of Correspondence With Her Late Friend, Melissa Bank

"If I were writing to her now, which I suppose I am, I would tell her that I will remember her."

By Julie Schumacher | August 2, 2023

J. Vanessa Lyon on Finding Inspiration in the Photography of James Van Der Zee

J. Vanessa Lyon on Finding Inspiration in the Photography of James Van Der Zee

"A good photograph, like a good novel, represents a series of artistic choices."

By J. Vanessa Lyon | August 2, 2023

It Conveyed <em>Them</em>: When The Beatles Recorded

It Conveyed Them: When The Beatles Recorded "Twist and Shout"

David Hepworth on the Moment When the Band Found Its Voice at Abbey Road

By David Hepworth | August 2, 2023

When Cause Doesn't Follow Effect: How to Structure the Strange

When Cause Doesn't Follow Effect: How to Structure the Strange

Rebekah Bergman Recommends Innovative Ways to Build Your Next Story

By Rebekah Bergman | August 2, 2023

Best Reviewed
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  • The Keeper
  • The Life You Want
  • The News from Dublin: Stories
  • Kutchinsky's Egg: A Family's Story of Obsession, Love, and Loss
  • Metropolitans: New York Baseball, Class Struggle, and the People's Team
  • A Good Person

Divine Heists, Deep-Sea Discoveries, and Climate Utopias: August’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

By Natalie Zutter | August 2, 2023

Jamel Brinkley Spends His Time Rereading Incredible Prose

By Literary Hub | August 2, 2023

Laura Warrell on How Novels Can Teach Us To Love

By Keen On | August 2, 2023

David Kamp on Getting Us Intimate with Nature

David Kamp on Getting Us Intimate with Nature

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 2, 2023

Ben Okri Reads From <em>Tiger Work</em>

Ben Okri Reads From Tiger Work

From Damian Barr’s Literary Salon Podcast

By Damian Barr's Literary Salon | August 2, 2023

Writing a Novel to Encounter Other Versions of Myself

Writing a Novel to Encounter Other Versions of Myself

Rebecca Sacks on Imagining the Roads Her Life Might Have Taken

By Bee Sacks | August 1, 2023

On the Joys of Food-Centered Fiction

On the Joys of Food-Centered Fiction

"I had never considered that food could be a tool of so much more than mere sophistication."

By Michelle Wildgen | August 1, 2023

Jimin Han on Filling Narrative Blank Spaces With Memory and Imagination

Jimin Han on Filling Narrative Blank Spaces With Memory and Imagination

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of The Apology

By Jane Ciabattari | August 1, 2023

Ann Patchett on Grabbing Galleys and Getting Drafts Done

Ann Patchett on Grabbing Galleys and Getting Drafts Done

The Author of Tom Lake Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | August 1, 2023

The Universe is an Unreliable Narrator: Mindy Mejia Litsplains Physics

The Universe is an Unreliable Narrator: Mindy Mejia Litsplains Physics

"I learned how to tell a story from the first and greatest storyteller of all."

By Mindy Mejia | August 1, 2023

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