Reclaiming Power Over One’s Own Story: Aminatta Forna on Abdulrazak Gurnah

Reclaiming Power Over One’s Own Story: Aminatta Forna on Abdulrazak Gurnah

Remarks From the PEN World Voices Festival opening night

By Aminatta Forna | May 17, 2022

19 new books to savor this week.

19 new books to savor this week.

By Katie Yee | May 17, 2022

Spending Time in Joy Williams’s Celestial Waiting Rooms

Spending Time in Joy Williams’s Celestial Waiting Rooms

Nicole Miller on the Writer's Attention to the Boundary Between Being and Non-Being

By Nicole Miller | May 17, 2022

Victoria Shorr on the Art of the Novella

Victoria Shorr on the Art of the Novella

”They take you—for one evening if you don't put it down, longer if you draw it out—to a place that you can see in sharp detail.”

By Victoria Shorr | May 17, 2022

Vanessa Hua on Writing About the Forgotten Women in Mao’s Inner Circle

Vanessa Hua on Writing About the Forgotten Women in Mao’s Inner Circle

The Author of Forbidden City Talks to Jane Ciabattari

By Jane Ciabattari | May 17, 2022

The Annotated Nightstand: What Elamin Abdelmahmoud is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Elamin Abdelmahmoud is Reading Now and Next

A New (at Lit Hub) Series by Diana Arterian

By Diana Arterian | May 17, 2022

Best Reviewed
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  • Joyride: A Memoir
  • A Guardian and a Thief
  • Minor Black Figures
  • True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen
  • The Wayfinder
  • Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat To) the Modern Dictionary

On the Gnostic Ironies of Poets Nathaniel Mackey and Fanny Howe

By Steven Toussaint | May 16, 2022

Tracing the Romance Genre’s Radical Roots, from Derided “Sex Novels” to Bridgerton

By Hilary A. Hallett | May 16, 2022

Shelf Talkers: What They’re Reading at South Main Book Company

By Literary Hub | May 16, 2022

Live at the Red Ink Series: On Writing and Dreams

Live at the Red Ink Series: On Writing and Dreams

Featuring Claire Messud, Julia May Jonas, Jean Chen Ho, Emily Maloney, and Daphne Palasi Andreades

By Michele Filgate | May 16, 2022

Hulu’s <em>Conversations with Friends</em> Captures the Quintessential Rooney Longing, if Not Much Else

Hulu’s Conversations with Friends Captures the Quintessential Rooney Longing, if Not Much Else

Nylah Burton on the Newest Addition to the Sally Rooneyverse

By Nylah Burton | May 13, 2022

How to Begin to Understand John Ashbery

How to Begin to Understand John Ashbery

Douglas Crase on the Famously Inscrutable Poet

By Douglas Crase | May 13, 2022

The Purpose of Book Bans Is to Make Queer Kids Scared

The Purpose of Book Bans Is to Make Queer Kids Scared

Lev AC Rosen on Having His Book Banned, and the Repetition of History

By Lev AC Rosen | May 13, 2022

Divinely-Inspired Art: John Higgs on William Blake’s Visions of the Sublime

Divinely-Inspired Art: John Higgs on William Blake’s Visions of the Sublime

“Perhaps more than any visionary before or since, Blake had the creative skill to express what he experienced.”

By John Higgs | May 13, 2022

2,000 Years Old and Still Going Strong: Aristotle’s Lessons in Storytelling

2,000 Years Old and Still Going Strong: Aristotle’s Lessons in Storytelling

Philip Freeman on What We Can Learn From the Poetics

By Philip Freeman | May 13, 2022

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 new titles by Fernanda Melchor, Mick Herron, Nghi Vo, Francis Fukuyama, and more

By Book Marks | May 13, 2022

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