5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Here is a writer of such intimate and insightful prose that stealing away with him for a few hours in another world feels closer to trespassing than reading.”

By Book Marks | November 13, 2025

When Empire Falls: Talking to George Packer About His New Novel, <em>The Emergency</em>

When Empire Falls: Talking to George Packer About His New Novel, The Emergency

In Conversation with Andy Hunter About Apocalypse, Societal Division, and the Future of America

By Andy Hunter | November 13, 2025

Celebration and Struggle: On the Life and Work of Alice Childress

Celebration and Struggle: On the Life and Work of Alice Childress

Eve Dunbar Considers the Creative, Professional and Manual Labor of Black Women in America

By Eve Dunbar | November 13, 2025

Kathryn Nuernberger on Mutualism, Climate, and Finding Family at the End of the World

Kathryn Nuernberger on Mutualism, Climate, and Finding Family at the End of the World

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | November 13, 2025

The Power of Illusion: Olivia Laing on Creating a Thriller Inspired by 1970s Italian Cinema

The Power of Illusion: Olivia Laing on Creating a Thriller Inspired by 1970s Italian Cinema

Or, How to Channel the Spirits of Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Danilo Donati in Fiction

By Olivia Laing | November 12, 2025

Emma Darwin on Writing About Her Family and Finding Inspiration in Artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Emma Darwin on Writing About Her Family and Finding Inspiration in Artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder

“What glowed at me with such potency that I would willingly immerse myself for all the months of writing slog?”

By Emma Darwin | November 12, 2025

Best Reviewed
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  • 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

The Striking Similarities Between Aphorisms and Poetry

By James Geary | November 12, 2025

Meet the 2025 National Book Award Finalists

By Emily Temple | November 11, 2025

Olivia Laing on Fictionalizing the Murder of Pier Paulo Pasolini

By Jane Ciabattari | November 11, 2025

Jen Percy on Self-Preservation, Playing Dead, and Writing About Gendered Violence

Jen Percy on Self-Preservation, Playing Dead, and Writing About Gendered Violence

Sarah Viren Talks to the author of Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation

By Sarah Viren | November 11, 2025

Lewis Black on the Life-Changing Power of Kurt Vonnegut

Lewis Black on the Life-Changing Power of Kurt Vonnegut

“He was telling what I believe was truth while delivering ideas and arguments in the most gentle way imaginable.”

By Lewis Black | November 11, 2025

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

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

Featuring Char Adams, Michelle Carr, Viola van de Sandt and More

By Teddy Wayne | November 11, 2025

Olivia Laing, Sarah Weinman, Alison Roman, and more: 23 new books out today!

Olivia Laing, Sarah Weinman, Alison Roman, and more: 23 new books out today!

By Julia Hass | November 11, 2025

Reading Around the World: 17 Great Books in Translation From University Presses

Reading Around the World: 17 Great Books in Translation From University Presses

Featuring Titles Translated from Uzbek, French, Arabic and More

By Literary Hub | November 10, 2025

“Human Written.” Why Sarah Hall Put a Maker’s Mark on Her New Novel

“Human Written.” Why Sarah Hall Put a Maker’s Mark on Her New Novel

Sarah Hall on Authenticity, AI, and Big Tech’s Creative Larceny

By Sarah Hall | November 10, 2025

So... What is a Podcast, Anyway?

So... What is a Podcast, Anyway?

Dennis Funk on Why We Need New and Better Ways to Talk About Narrative Audio

By Dennis Funk | November 7, 2025

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