Literary Hub
Literary Hub
  • Craft and Criticism
    • Literary Criticism
    • Craft and Advice
    • In Conversation
    • On Translation
  • Fiction and Poetry
    • Short Story
    • From the Novel
    • Poem
  • News and Culture
    • History
    • Science
    • Politics
    • Biography
    • Memoir
    • Food
    • Technology
    • Bookstores and Libraries
    • Film and TV
    • Travel
    • Music
    • Art and Photography
    • The Hub
    • Style
    • Design
    • Sports
  • BUY A HAT
  • Lit Hub Radio
    • The Lit Hub Podcast
    • Awakeners
    • Fiction/Non/Fiction
    • The Critic and Her Publics
    • Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
    • Memoir Nation
    • Beyond the Page
    • First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
    • Thresholds
    • The Cosmic Library
    • Culture Schlock
  • Reading Lists
    • The Best of the Decade
  • Book Marks
    • Best Reviewed Books
  • CrimeReads
    • True Crime
    • The Daily Thrill
  • Log In
  • Craft and Criticism
  • Fiction and Poetry
  • News and Culture
  • Lit Hub Radio
  • Reading Lists
  • Book Marks
  • CrimeReads
  • Log In
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"Dickens may be dead, but Smith, thankfully, is alive."

By Book Marks | August 31, 2023

10 Books for Taylor Swift’s 10 Eras

10 Books for Taylor Swift’s 10 Eras

Surprising Pairings from Swiftie Authors in the Know

By Samantha Paige Rosen | August 30, 2023

What to Read When You’re Expecting: 7 Radical Perspectives on Motherhood

What to Read When You’re Expecting: 7 Radical Perspectives on Motherhood

Jessica Hendry Nelson Recommends Camille Dungy, Rachel Cusk, and More

By Jessica Hendry Nelson | August 29, 2023

Six Great Novels about Old Friends and <em>Old</em> Friends

Six Great Novels about Old Friends and Old Friends

Bobby Finger Recommends Tove Jansson, Mattie Lubchansky, and More

By Bobby Finger | August 28, 2023

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 Anna Funder, Anna May Wong, Jerome Charyn, and More

By Book Marks | August 25, 2023

Back from Behind Like Patrick Mahomes: A Reading List of Comeback Stories

Back from Behind Like Patrick Mahomes: A Reading List of Comeback Stories

Mark Dent and Rustin Dodd Recommend Eli Saslow, Michelle Zauner, Andre Agassi, and More

By Mark Dent and Rustin Dodd | August 24, 2023

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Transcription
  • London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
  • Attention: Writing on Life, Art, and the World
  • The Oyster Diaries
  • Yesteryear
  • Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks | August 24, 2023

Escaping the Terrestrial Mess: Eight Books about Intelligent Sea Creatures

By James Sturz | August 18, 2023

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

By Book Marks | August 18, 2023

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"Narrative is one of many tariffs that the world exacts from the uprooted"

By Book Marks | August 17, 2023

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 James McBride, Sin Blaché & Helen Macdonald, John Glatt, and More

By Book Marks | August 11, 2023

8 books to read this month (while your therapist is on vacation).

8 books to read this month (while your therapist is on vacation).

By Emily Temple | August 10, 2023

6 Difficult Women Who Live on in Fiction

6 Difficult Women Who Live on in Fiction

Elizabeth Fremantle Rescues Misfits and Disruptors from the Wastebin of History

By Elizabeth Fremantle | August 10, 2023

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"We all need—we all deserve—this vibrant, love-affirming novel"

By Book Marks | August 10, 2023

The Annotated Nightstand: What Stephen Kearse is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Stephen Kearse is Reading Now and Next

Featuring Anthony Bourdain, Angela Carter, Audre Lorde and More

By Diana Arterian | August 10, 2023

Nine Novellas For Our Current Age of Distraction

Nine Novellas For Our Current Age of Distraction

John Fulton Recommends Max Porter, Claire Keegan, and More

By John Fulton | August 9, 2023

« First‹ Previous515253545556575859Next ›Last »
Page 55 of 191
    • James Wolff on Why the World of Espionage Is Impossibly MessyApril 14, 2026 by James Wolff
    • What to Watch Now: Syriana (2005)April 14, 2026 by Radha Vatsal
    • R.M. Caldwell on Writing a Regency-Era 'Fast and the Furious', Neurodivergence, and MoreApril 14, 2026 by Alex Dueben
    • Transcription
    • The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
    • "As talky and thinky as a memory play sweeping up Kafka Covid glass flowers and…"
  • Literary Hub

    Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature


    Masthead

    About

    Sign Up For Our Newsletters

    How to Pitch Lit Hub

    Advertisers: Contact Us

    Privacy Policy

    Support Lit Hub - Become A Member

  • If you buy books linked on our site, Lit Hub may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores.