Literary Hub » The Latest

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"The dividing line between truth and nonsense isn’t always easy to discern"

By Book Marks | April 27, 2023

“It Stands for ‘F*ck This Shit.’” Abigail Thomas on Getting a Tattoo at 80

“It Stands for ‘F*ck This Shit.’” Abigail Thomas on Getting a Tattoo at 80

“I settled on simple capital letters, like Scrabble squares.”

By Abigail Thomas | April 27, 2023

Between Two Cities: Shubha Sunder on Finding a Place in Fiction

Between Two Cities: Shubha Sunder on Finding a Place in Fiction

“Boston and Bangalore don’t live within me in hermetically sealed compartments; rather, they permeate each other.”

By Shubha Sunder | April 27, 2023

Lucinda Williams Recalls the Turbulence of Growing Up With a Sick Mother

Lucinda Williams Recalls the Turbulence of Growing Up With a Sick Mother

“Your mother’s not well, don’t be mad at your mother.”

By Lucinda Williams | April 26, 2023

Simple, Sparse and Profound: David Sexton on Kazuo Ishiguro’s <em>Never Let Me Go</em>

Simple, Sparse and Profound: David Sexton on Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go

“What this book is about is ordinary, normal and everyday, the knowledge that we are mortal...”

By David Sexton | April 26, 2023

Finding Words in the Kitchen (Or: How I Stopped Hating Myself and Started Cooking)

Finding Words in the Kitchen (Or: How I Stopped Hating Myself and Started Cooking)

Diksha Basu on Rediscovering the Food of Her Youth

By Diksha Basu | April 26, 2023

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Searching for Sacred Landscapes: On Finding the Sublime in Solitude

By James Canton | April 26, 2023

Simon Winchester on the Seemingly Magical Way Knowledge is Now Transmitted

By Keen On | April 26, 2023

Literal Star-Crossed Lovers: A Reading List of Space Operas with Romance Subplots

By S. B. Divya | April 26, 2023

The 80-Pound Rule and How Youth Sports Hurt Kids’ Bodies

The 80-Pound Rule and How Youth Sports Hurt Kids’ Bodies

Virginia Sole-Smith on Diet Culture Starting Young

By Virginia Sole-Smith | April 26, 2023

The Annotated Nightstand: What Douglas Manuel is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Douglas Manuel is Reading Now and Next

Solmaz Sharif, Amber Flame, Clint Smith and More.

By Diana Arterian | April 26, 2023

Kenan Orhan on the Surprising Links Between the American Heartland and the Turkish Metropolis

Kenan Orhan on the Surprising Links Between the American Heartland and the Turkish Metropolis

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | April 26, 2023

Meet the Baillie Gifford Nonfiction Prize “Winner of Winners” Shortlist

Meet the Baillie Gifford Nonfiction Prize “Winner of Winners” Shortlist

The Best in Nonfiction

By Literary Hub | April 25, 2023

Claire Dederer on Doris Lessing and the Divided Mother

Claire Dederer on Doris Lessing and the Divided Mother

Finding Freedom in, and From, Motherhood

By Claire Dederer | April 25, 2023

How Centuries-Old Knowledge of the Natural World Can Save Lives

How Centuries-Old Knowledge of the Natural World Can Save Lives

Simon Winchester on the Uses and Evolution of Ways of Knowing

By Simon Winchester | April 25, 2023

“A Bright Stellate Object, a Small Angled Sphere.” On Migraines and Scotoma

“A Bright Stellate Object, a Small Angled Sphere.” On Migraines and Scotoma

Brian Dillon Considers the Restless Geometry of Blind Spots

By Brian Dillon | April 25, 2023

« First ‹ Previous 403 404 405 406407408 409 410 411 Next ›Last »

Page 407 of 1603