5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“A superb and disturbing vivisection of our darkest urges, this summer’s premier nonfiction read.”

By Book Marks | June 12, 2025

I Don’t Think My Fantasy-Writing Friend Will Get My Literary Fiction: Am I the Asshole?

I Don’t Think My Fantasy-Writing Friend Will Get My Literary Fiction: Am I the Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | June 12, 2025

The Ultimate Summer 2025 Reading List

The Ultimate Summer 2025 Reading List

Sun, Fun, Math, and Counting

By Emily Temple | June 12, 2025

Jess Walter on the American Family Unplugged

Jess Walter on the American Family Unplugged

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | June 12, 2025

The Craft of This Mortal Coil: Jonathan Gluck on Writing a Different Cancer Story

The Craft of This Mortal Coil: Jonathan Gluck on Writing a Different Cancer Story

Terry McDonell in Conversation with the Author of “An Exercise in Uncertainty”

By Terry McDonell | June 11, 2025

On Reimagining <em>The Great Gatsby</em> as a Black American Story

On Reimagining The Great Gatsby as a Black American Story

Kyra Davis Lurie Explores Adaptations, Sugar Hill, and Fitzgerald’s Racism

By Kyra Davis Lurie | June 11, 2025

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

Sarah Aziza on Trying Not to Disappear

By Thresholds | June 11, 2025

A Past Most Queer: Remembering Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Radical Gay Historical Fiction

By B. Pietras | June 10, 2025

Tyranny as Tragedy: On King Lear, Maoist China and the Unpredictable Nature of Power

By Nan Z. Da | June 10, 2025

Gatherings Gone Wrong: Five Books Featuring Disastrous Party Scenes

Gatherings Gone Wrong: Five Books Featuring Disastrous Party Scenes

Jonathan Parks-Ramage Explores Brilliantly Bad Fetes in Books by Edward St. Aubyn, Raven Leilani, Deborah Eisenberg, and Others

By Jonathan Parks-Ramage | June 10, 2025

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

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

Featuring Geoff Dyer, Ivy Pochoda, Megan Giddings and More

By Teddy Wayne | June 10, 2025

Black Gatsby! Britney Spears! Geoff Dyer! Queer chaos! 25 new books out today.

Black Gatsby! Britney Spears! Geoff Dyer! Queer chaos! 25 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | June 10, 2025

Bad Curls, Bad Character: <br>The Charged Meaning of Hair in 19th-Century America

Bad Curls, Bad Character:
The Charged Meaning of Hair in 19th-Century America

Sarah Gold McBride on Race in the United States, Tresses as Culture, and the Field of “Whiskerology”

By Sarah Gold McBride | June 9, 2025

On Marianne Moore, Unexpected Celebrity Poet of Midcentury America

On Marianne Moore, Unexpected Celebrity Poet of Midcentury America

Susan Gubar Explores the Multifaceted Life and Work of America’s Foremost Female Poet of the 20th Century

By Susan Gubar | June 9, 2025

Beyond Teen Fiction: Six High School Novels for Adult Readers

Beyond Teen Fiction: Six High School Novels for Adult Readers

Miriam Gershow Recommends Zoe Heller, Emily St. James, Jim Shepherd and More

By Miriam Gershow | June 9, 2025

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring Susan Choi, Desi Arnaz, Melissa Febos, and More

By Book Marks | June 6, 2025

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