5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The book itself is haunting in its dissection of the mechanisms that allow human beings to dehumanize others.”

By Book Marks | July 6, 2023

In Memory of Cormac McCarthy: Oscar Villalon on an Iconic Writer’s Life, Work, and Legacy

In Memory of Cormac McCarthy: Oscar Villalon on an Iconic Writer’s Life, Work, and Legacy

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | July 6, 2023

Blurred Lines: A Reading List of Metafiction

Blurred Lines: A Reading List of Metafiction

Arianna Reiche Recommends Vladimir Nabokov, Bret Easton Ellis, and More

By Arianna Reiche | July 6, 2023

Five Short Story Collections To Have You Reading Like a Writer

Five Short Story Collections To Have You Reading Like a Writer

Aaliyah Bilal Recommends Edward P. Jones, Jamaica Kincaid, and More

By Aaliyah Bilal | July 6, 2023

Creating Safe Spaces: On Writing Queer Romance

Creating Safe Spaces: On Writing Queer Romance

Laura Kay Explores the Joy of Representation in Escapism

By Laura Kay | July 6, 2023

From Music to Fiction: How Artistic Callings Shift Across Generations

From Music to Fiction: How Artistic Callings Shift Across Generations

Keziah Weir on Finding Her Literary Voice Through Her Parents' Musical Talent

By Keziah Weir | July 6, 2023

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man: A Memoir
  • Nonesuch
  • Whidbey
  • A Scandal in Königsberg
  • The Quantity Theory of Morality
  • Partially Devoured: How Night of the Living Dead Saved My Life and Changed the World

Sarah Viren on Examining the Self in Both the Past and the Present

By The Maris Review | July 6, 2023

The Annotated Nightstand: What Mai Nguyen Is Reading Now and Next

By Diana Arterian | July 6, 2023

On Journey to the West’s Capacity for Reinvention Across Centuries

By The Cosmic Library | July 6, 2023

Patrick Dean on America’s “First” Great Naturalist, Mark Catesby

Patrick Dean on America’s “First” Great Naturalist, Mark Catesby

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | July 6, 2023

Bathhouse Sex, DIY Sestinas, Steamy Surrealism, and Sonnets: New Poetry Coming in July

Bathhouse Sex, DIY Sestinas, Steamy Surrealism, and Sonnets: New Poetry Coming in July

“Let’s be clear: this is no light ‘beach read’ stack.”

By Rebecca Morgan Frank | July 6, 2023

Bill Boggs, Satirist of America’s Addiction to Celebrity, Drugs, Sex, and Food

Bill Boggs, Satirist of America’s Addiction to Celebrity, Drugs, Sex, and Food

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | July 6, 2023

Jake Skeets on Diné Food Traditions and the Relationship Between Food and Community

Jake Skeets on Diné Food Traditions and the Relationship Between Food and Community

This Week from the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | July 5, 2023

Chronicle of a Battle Foretold: How One Town Went to War Over Desegregation

Chronicle of a Battle Foretold: How One Town Went to War Over Desegregation

Rachel Louise Martin on the Explosive Fight for Civil Rights in the American South

By Rachel Louise Martin | July 5, 2023

Adrienne Brodeur on Using Summer 2016 as a Setting for <em>Little Monsters</em>

Adrienne Brodeur on Using Summer 2016 as a Setting for Little Monsters

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | July 5, 2023

Kate Zambreno Can’t Imagine Her Life Without Visual Art

Kate Zambreno Can’t Imagine Her Life Without Visual Art

The Author of The Light Room Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | July 5, 2023

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