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What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
Featuring Daniyal Mueenuddin, Jung Chang, Madeline Cash, and More
By
Book Marks
| January 16, 2026
On Lidia Yuknavitch’s “Anti-Memoir”
The Chronology of Water
Asha Dore Considers Stories in the Body, on the Page, and on Screen
By
Asha Dore
| January 16, 2026
Containment and Freedom: In Praise of the Boarding School Novel
Madeleine Dunnigan on the Joys of Channeling Teenage Angst In Her Fiction
By
Madeleine Dunnigan
| January 16, 2026
The All-Of-It-Ness of Motherhood: Five Books to Read in the Early Days of Parenting
Catherine Pierce Recommends Rivka Galchen, Mira Jacob, Beth Ann Fennelly and More
By
Catherine Pierce
| January 16, 2026
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
“A novel is a minor conspiracy unto itself, a frenzied assembly of story and figures and motivations.”
By
Book Marks
| January 15, 2026
Questions and Crimes: Golan Haji on Art and Letters in the New Syria
Translated and Introduced by Fady Joudah
By
Golan Haji
| January 15, 2026
Best Reviewed
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Against Generative AI: Is Art the Last Refuge of Our Humanity?
By
Nick Ripatrazone
| January 15, 2026
Am I the Asshole For Having a Huge Crush on My Editor?
By
Kristen Arnett
| January 15, 2026
The Annotated Nightstand: What Daniyal Mueenuddin Is Reading Now, and Next
By
Diana Arterian
| January 15, 2026
Vauhini Vara and Karan Mahajan on When AI Tries to Sound Like Us
In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction
By
Fiction Non Fiction
| January 15, 2026
Is Artistic Ego a Faustian Bargain? Karl Ove Knausgaard on Plot, Narcissism, and His New Novel
Eric Olson Profiles the Author of
The School of Night
By
Eric Olson
| January 14, 2026
A Reading List of Ersatz Mothers: Three Novels Featuring Powerful Aunts
Sara Levine Recommends Jane Austen, P.G. Wodehouse and Elena Ferrante
By
Sara Levine
| January 14, 2026
Letters on Faith Between a Poet and a Theologian
A Conversation Between Miroslav Volf and Christian Wiman on God, Poetry, Joyce, Pound, and More
By
Miroslav Volf and Christian Wiman
| January 13, 2026
Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers
Featuring Stefan Merrill Block, Nina McConigley, Ben Markovits and More
By
Teddy Wayne
| January 13, 2026
Madeline Cash on Writing an Absurdist Systems Novel
Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of
Lost Lambs
By
Jane Ciabattari
| January 13, 2026
Karl Ove Knausgaard, Niall Williams, Daniyal Mueenuddin, and more: 21 new books out today!
By
Julia Hass
| January 13, 2026
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New Series to Watch this Weekend
January 16, 2026
by
Olivia Rutigliano
Novelist Van Jensen Talks with His Mother, Acclaimed Painter Jean Jensen, About Art, Literature, and Family
January 16, 2026
by
Van Jensen
The Historical Implications and Fictional Possibilities of the Hindenberg Disaster
January 16, 2026
by
L. A. Chandlar
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"Sensitive and powerful The women in em This Is Where the Serpent Lives em are…"