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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“A book about the destruction of bohemia and the nightmare of trying to live—let alone make art—with very little money.”

By Book Marks | July 10, 2025

How Does a Critic Write a Novel About Critics?

How Does a Critic Write a Novel About Critics?

Charlotte Runcie on the Symbiotic Relationship Between Artists and Those Who Review Them

By Charlotte Runcie | July 10, 2025

The Church of the Screen: A Daughter’s Reflections on an Early Cinematic Education

The Church of the Screen: A Daughter’s Reflections on an Early Cinematic Education

Joanna Howard Explores the Impact of Her Mother’s Passion For Film on Her Own Storytelling

By Joanna Howard | July 10, 2025

The Tale of Elaine Yoneda, a Jewish Woman in a Japanese American Concentration Camp

The Tale of Elaine Yoneda, a Jewish Woman in a Japanese American Concentration Camp

Tracy Slater on the Strange Fate of Mixed-Race Families in Prisons During World War II

By Tracy Slater | July 10, 2025

Margaret Atwood and Ayad Akhtar on This Wonderful, Terrible World

Margaret Atwood and Ayad Akhtar on This Wonderful, Terrible World

live at the 2024 Sun Vally Writers' Conference

By Sun Valley Writers' Conference | July 10, 2025

Raina Lipsitz on Mamdani, DSA, and the Rise of a New Left

Raina Lipsitz on Mamdani, DSA, and the Rise of a New Left

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | July 10, 2025

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  • House of Day, House of Night
  • The Award
  • Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
  • Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
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  • The Six Loves of James I

Cushty, Prat, Cowson... and Other British Terms I Can No Longer Say in America

By Christopher J. Yates | July 9, 2025

What a 1964 Book About American Anti-Intellectualism Can Teach Us About the Trump Era

By Peter Balakian | July 9, 2025

Cruising the Holy Highway: Mary Jo Bang Journeys Through Dante’s “Paradiso”

By Mary Jo Bang | July 9, 2025

Writing the Memoir My Father Never Could

Writing the Memoir My Father Never Could

Margot Singer: “That book... was not the book my father wanted. But it was the only one that I could write. It spoke the only truth I knew.”

By Margot Singer | July 9, 2025

Gary Shteyngart on Channeling a Precocious Child Narrator

Gary Shteyngart on Channeling a Precocious Child Narrator

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Vera, or Faith”

By Jane Ciabattari | July 8, 2025

Did Shakespeare Write <em>Hamlet</em> While He Was Stoned?

Did Shakespeare Write Hamlet While He Was Stoned?

Sam Kelly Explores the Potential Influence of Cannabis on the Bard’s Prolific Literary Output

By Sam Kelly | July 8, 2025

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

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

Featuring Maris Kreizman, Claire Jia, Lawrence Burney, and More

By Teddy Wayne | July 8, 2025

Birth of the Jailhouse Lawyer: How Inmate Counsel Saves Prisoners’ Lives

Birth of the Jailhouse Lawyer: How Inmate Counsel Saves Prisoners’ Lives

Calvin Duncan and Sophie Cull on William “Joe Writs” Johnson, Law Libraries, and a Constitutional Battle

By Literary Hub | July 8, 2025

Croatia as a Character? Lidija Hilje on Trying—and Failing—to Write a Universal Story

Croatia as a Character? Lidija Hilje on Trying—and Failing—to Write a Universal Story

“Even though I did my best to tune out Croatia, this proved to be an impossible task.”

By Lidija Hilje | July 8, 2025

No Translation, No Problem: <br>The Joys of Reading a Book Containing Multiple Languages

No Translation, No Problem:
The Joys of Reading a Book Containing Multiple Languages

Rachel Ashcroft on the Benefits of Letting the Words Wash Over You

By Rachel Ashcroft | July 7, 2025

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