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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Most of us don’t mind literary grave robbing, especially when it comes to authors we love.”

By Book Marks | July 13, 2023

RIP to one of the great horny novelists of the 20th century, Milan Kundera.

RIP to one of the great horny novelists of the 20th century, Milan Kundera.

By Jonny Diamond | July 12, 2023

Ivy Pochoda on Women, Violence, and Making the Move From Pro Sports to Writing

Ivy Pochoda on Women, Violence, and Making the Move From Pro Sports to Writing

The Author of Sing Her Down Talks to Ona Russell in the New Season of Authors in the Tent

By Authors in the Tent | July 12, 2023

Reading the Market: 5 Books That Capture 40 Years of High Finance Culture

Reading the Market: 5 Books That Capture 40 Years of High Finance Culture

Andrew Lipstein Recommends Michael Lewis, John Carreyrou, and More

By Andrew Lipstein | July 12, 2023

Colin Walsh Reads From <em>Kala</em>

Colin Walsh Reads From Kala

From Damian Barr’s Literary Salon Podcast

By Damian Barr's Literary Salon | July 12, 2023

27 new books out today!

27 new books out today!

By Gabrielle Bellot | July 11, 2023

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

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  • Languages of Home: Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives 1975-2025
  • On the Calculation of Volume (Book III)
  • The Ferryman and His Wife
  • Empire of Orgasm: Sex, Power, and the Downfall of a Wellness Cult
  • Mexico: A 500-Year History

New England Noir: A Brief, Idiosyncratic History of a Literary Region

By Dwyer Murphy | July 11, 2023

Wherever You Go, There You Are: On Setting and Society in Pride and Prejuduce

By C.K. Chau | July 11, 2023

Tessa Hadley on the Unapologetic Joys of Rereading

By Literary Hub | July 11, 2023

Susan Williams on Charles Dickens’s <em>Bleak House</em>

Susan Williams on Charles Dickens’s Bleak House

In Conversation for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | July 11, 2023

Ruth Madievsky on Creating Fiction From Poetry

Ruth Madievsky on Creating Fiction From Poetry

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of All-Night Pharmacy

By Jane Ciabattari | July 11, 2023

Kathleen Hale on How She Found Her Way to <em>Slenderman</em>

Kathleen Hale on How She Found Her Way to Slenderman

In Conversation with Lindsay Hunter on I'm a Writer But  

By I'm a Writer But | July 11, 2023

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

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

Featuring Caleb Azumah Nelson, Kate Myers, Richard Russo, and More

By Teddy Wayne | July 11, 2023

How Truman Capote Was Destroyed by His Own Masterpiece

How Truman Capote Was Destroyed by His Own Masterpiece

Inside a New Volume Reproducing the Original Manuscript
of In Cold Blood

By Ebs Burnough | July 10, 2023

How J. Robert Oppenheimer Was Influenced by the <em>Bhagavad Gita</em>

How J. Robert Oppenheimer Was Influenced by the Bhagavad Gita

Alok A. Khorana on the Concept of Dharma, the Manhattan Project, and Oppenheimer's Well-Worn Copy of the Gita

By Alok A. Khorana | July 10, 2023

Oliver de la Paz on Absences and Using the Form of the Sonnet to Capture Life in a Diaspora

Oliver de la Paz on Absences and Using the Form of the Sonnet to Capture Life in a Diaspora

The Poet on His New Collection The Diaspora Sonnets

By Literary Hub | July 10, 2023

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