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“If this is not a revolutionary cry, what is?” Sahar Delijani on watching from a distance as women fight for freedom in Iran. | Lit Hub Politics
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“The writer who best explained the dynamic behind Daphne’s sunnily subversive hedonism did so in 1941.” Julia Cooke considers a celebrated White Lotus character through midcentury writer Rebecca West. | Lit Hub Criticism
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Sheila Liming on the uncanniness of hanging out on reality TV. | Lit Hub
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Paul Harding’s This Other Eden, Janet Malcolm’s Still Pictures, Bret Easton Ellis’s The Shards, and Colm Tóibín’s A Guest at the Feast all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Month. | Book Marks
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25 historical crime, mystery, and horror novels to look for in 2023. | CrimeReads
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“Although Riker has little interest in the formulaic or didactic, he considers literature a conversation above all else.” Lynn Steger Strong profiles publisher-author Martin Riker. | Los Angeles Times
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A history of the Times Literary Supplement. | The Hudson Review
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“Maybe nations go through a time when they just can’t hear certain kinds of voices.” Anderson Tepper considers Ben Okri’s newfound resonance with American readers. | The New York Times
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The perennial allure of The Virgin Suicides, 30 years on. | The Guardian
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Seven decades after Simone de Beauvoir published The Second Sex, a new book by Richard V. Reeves argues that gender equality now requires a focus on male deficits. | The New Yorker
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What happens when the Baby Boomers are gone? | The Washington Post
Also on Lit Hub: What the booksellers are reading at Left Bank Books • Peter Turchi on the power of the literary aside • Read from (and listen to) Aleksandar Hemon’s latest novel, The World and All That It Holds
