New Books Tuesday: Your weekly guide to what’s publishing today, fiction and nonfiction

New Books Tuesday: Your weekly guide to what’s publishing today, fiction and nonfiction

By Emily Temple | June 4, 2019

Jill Lepore on Early American Ideas of Nationalism

Jill Lepore on Early American Ideas of Nationalism

"Inevitably, the age of national bootblacks and national oyster houses and national blacksmiths produced national history books."

By Jill Lepore | June 4, 2019

<em>Deadwood</em>, TV’s Most Literary Show, Gets Its Rightful Foul-Mouthed Send-Off

Deadwood, TV’s Most Literary Show, Gets Its Rightful Foul-Mouthed Send-Off

Tyler Malone on How a Series Should End

By Tyler Malone | June 4, 2019

How Sharing Books with My Dad in Prison Made Life Bearable for Both of Us

How Sharing Books with My Dad in Prison Made Life Bearable for Both of Us

Tyler Wetherall on Why All in Prison Should Have the Right to Read

By Tyler Wetherall | June 4, 2019

What Makes Somebody a Mother? On the New Season of <em>The Handmaid's Tale</em>

What Makes Somebody a Mother? On the New Season of The Handmaid's Tale

Rachel Vorona Cote Heads Back to Gilead

By Rachel Vorona Cote | June 4, 2019

The Cold War Love Story of a Would-Be Travel Writer/Almost-Spy

The Cold War Love Story of a Would-Be Travel Writer/Almost-Spy

Thomas Swick's Tough Choices in 1978 Warsaw

By Thomas Swick | June 4, 2019

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

How Do We Reclaim American Cities for People Who Walk?

By Antonia Malchik | June 4, 2019

On the Role of Black Women in the Struggle for Suffrage

By Kate Lemay | June 4, 2019

Why The Very Hungry Caterpillar almost never happened.

By Corinne Segal | June 3, 2019

Of course Lana Del Rey is writing poetry about Sylvia Plath.

Of course Lana Del Rey is writing poetry about Sylvia Plath.

By Emily Temple | June 3, 2019

15 Books You Should Read This June

15 Books You Should Read This June

Recommended Reading from Lit Hub Staff and Contributors

By Literary Hub | June 3, 2019

Pablo Neruda's Life as a Struggling Poet in Sri Lanka

Pablo Neruda's Life as a Struggling Poet in Sri Lanka

A Young Poet's Adventures in the Foreign Service

By Jamie James | June 3, 2019

The Dark Side of the <br>Chinese Dream

The Dark Side of the
Chinese Dream

Ma Jian on the Short Path from Utopia to Dystopia

By Ma Jian | June 3, 2019

Philippe Petit Meditates on His Life Walking the High Wire

Philippe Petit Meditates on His Life Walking the High Wire

Glimpses of the Finite and Infinite, As Translated by Paul Auster

By Philippe Petit | June 3, 2019

New York City in the 1930s, As Seen Through the Lens of Berenice Abbott

New York City in the 1930s, As Seen Through the Lens of Berenice Abbott

From a New Compilation of Her Work

By Berenice Abbott | June 3, 2019

Your weekly book deal memo: the Jonas Brothers, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, & more

Your weekly book deal memo: the Jonas Brothers, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, & more

By Emily Temple | May 31, 2019

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