5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The plot twist, when it arrives, is not in itself ridiculous but the execution is.”

By Book Marks | May 19, 2022

Why a Life Well Lived Is a Good Death

Why a Life Well Lived Is a Good Death

Dr. Sunita Puri in Conversation with Roxanne Coady on the Just the Right Book Podcast

By Just the Right Book | May 19, 2022

Looking to Songs and Sermons to Structure a Memoir About Fighting for Black Lives

Looking to Songs and Sermons to Structure a Memoir About Fighting for Black Lives

Andre Henry on Pulling from the Genres that Shaped His Life

By Andre Henry | May 19, 2022

A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice

A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice

Ellen McGarrahan Guests on the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | May 19, 2022

How Sports Profoundly Shape Us, Even After We Quit

How Sports Profoundly Shape Us, Even After We Quit

Eimear Ryan on Women in Sports Who Compete on Their Own Terms

By Eimear Ryan | May 19, 2022

My Father Is a Civil Rights Hero. Growing Up with Him Was Complicated.

My Father Is a Civil Rights Hero. Growing Up with Him Was Complicated.

David J. Dennis Jr. on a Childhood Shaped By the Movement

By David Dennis Jr. | May 19, 2022

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • 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
  • Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
  • The Six Loves of James I

WATCH: Gregory D. Smithers on Amplifying the History and Voices of Indigenous Resistance

By The Virtual Book Channel | May 19, 2022

Her Hidden Genius by Marie Benedict, Read by Nicola Barber

By Behind the Mic | May 19, 2022

Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey on Finding Creative Freedom in The Office

By Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey | May 18, 2022

What Do We Lose—and Gain—As Book Tours Move Online?

What Do We Lose—and Gain—As Book Tours Move Online?

Guy Gavriel Kay on the Horrors and Possibilities of the In-Person Tour

By Guy Gavriel Kay | May 18, 2022

When Artists and Athletes Age, What Happens to Their Work?

When Artists and Athletes Age, What Happens to Their Work?

Geoff Dyer on Beyond the Page: The Best of the Sun Valley Writers‘ Conference

By Sun Valley Writers' Conference | May 18, 2022

How Anxiety Evolved Through the Middle Ages and Early Modern Europe

How Anxiety Evolved Through the Middle Ages and Early Modern Europe

“To many in the Western world, the fact that the mind was free but separate from the heavenly soul was unbearable.”

By Tracy Dennis-Tiwary | May 18, 2022

How Greenwich Village Bohemians Found Their Way to Provincetown

How Greenwich Village Bohemians Found Their Way to Provincetown

John Taylor Williams on Two Radical Communities

By John Taylor Williams | May 18, 2022

Looking at Willa Cather’s Lesbian Partnership and Domestic World

Looking at Willa Cather’s Lesbian Partnership and Domestic World

The Lesser-Told Story of Cather and Edith Lewis

By Melissa Homestead | May 18, 2022

Here’s the Quick and Dirty on Foot Fetishes

Here’s the Quick and Dirty on Foot Fetishes

Rachel Feltman Looks Into the Theories Behind Our (Very Common) Fixation on Feet

By Rachel Feltman | May 18, 2022

Mary Laura Philpott on Why Structure Is Always Story

Mary Laura Philpott on Why Structure Is Always Story

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | May 18, 2022

Page 428 of 1219

  • Literary Hub

    Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature


    Masthead

    About

    Sign Up For Our Newsletters

    How to Pitch Lit Hub

    Advertisers: Contact Us

    Privacy Policy

    Support Lit Hub - Become A Member