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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“In place of clear conclusions are persistent themes, like recurring notes in a song.”

By Book Marks | January 23, 2025

We Only Have Ourselves: The How-Tos and DOs and DON’Ts of Mutual Aid

We Only Have Ourselves: The How-Tos and DOs and DON’Ts of Mutual Aid

Kim Kelly Offers Advice and Reading Suggestions for How We Might Survive the Depredations to Come

By Kim Kelly | January 21, 2025

Joni Mitchell! Han Kang! Belle & Sebastian! 22 new books out today.

Joni Mitchell! Han Kang! Belle & Sebastian! 22 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | January 21, 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 Aria Aber, Y2K, Pico Iyer, and More

By Book Marks | January 17, 2025

Finding the Wild Girls of Literature (and Following Them Into the Woods)

Finding the Wild Girls of Literature (and Following Them Into the Woods)

Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum Recommends Sarah Moss, Jamaica Kincaid, Carson McCullers and Others

By Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum | January 17, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“It reads like the unfinished, damaged novel that it is.”

By Book Marks | January 16, 2025

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  • The Pelican Child: Stories
  • Languages of Home: Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives 1975-2025
  • On the Calculation of Volume (Book III)
  • The Ferryman and His Wife
  • Empire of Orgasm: Sex, Power, and the Downfall of a Wellness Cult
  • Mexico: A 500-Year History

The Annotated Nightstand: What Aria Aber Is Reading Now, and Next

By Diana Arterian | January 16, 2025

Pico Iyer! Helen of Troy in the '90s! An African history of Africa! 27 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | January 14, 2025

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

By Book Marks | January 10, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The narrator’s voice is an extraordinary hybrid of a boy’s plaintive innocence and a man’s wry reflection.”

By Book Marks | January 9, 2025

What to read next based on your favorite film of the year (redux).

What to read next based on your favorite film of the year (redux).

By Brittany Allen | January 8, 2025

Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025

Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025

291 Books We're Looking Forward to in the New Year

By Literary Hub | January 7, 2025

Zora Neale Hurston! The real-life Hester Prynne! Y2K! 27 new books out today.

Zora Neale Hurston! The real-life Hester Prynne! Y2K! 27 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | January 7, 2025

Deer! Dystopia! Patrick Stewart! MLK’s definitive bio! 21 books out in paperback this January.

Deer! Dystopia! Patrick Stewart! MLK’s definitive bio! 21 books out in paperback this January.

By Gabrielle Bellot | January 3, 2025

20 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books to Look Forward to in 2025

20 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books to Look Forward to in 2025

Looking Ahead to the Year’s SFF Offerings From Amal el-Mohtar, Daryl Gregory, Katherine Addison, R.F. Kuang, and Many More

By Natalie Zutter | January 2, 2025

A Constant Reinvention of Language: Looking Ahead to 2025 in Poetry

A Constant Reinvention of Language: Looking Ahead to 2025 in Poetry

Rebecca Morgan Frank and Christopher Spaide Showcase Some of This Year's Most Exciting Forthcoming Titles

By Literary Hub | January 2, 2025

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