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From Goethe to Rachel Cusk, Jennifer Banks considers the moral and political failure to “meet mothers with the full force of our intellects.” | Lit Hub History
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“He’s like the imp version of Leonardo DiCaprio.” Jonathan Russell Clark asks why Hollywood keeps returning to Peter Pan. | Lit Hub Film & TV
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Terry McDonell has thoughts on writing about your mother. | Lit Hub Memoir
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“What’s ‘envy,’ Mother?” Read from Mona Awad’s forthcoming novel, Rouge, on the intersection of beauty, power, and motherhood. | Lit Hub Excerpts
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Where’s the UK equivalent of Robert Caro? Sam Leith looks at the difference in nonfiction between the US and UK. | Lit Hub Criticism
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Rosalynn Tyo picks a bone with a romance trope: the (beautiful, struggling) single mom. | Lit Hub
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Tom Hanks’ The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece, Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s Retrospective, and Héctor Tobar’s Our Migrant Souls all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
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On the oldest and most boring form of trutherism: doubting Shakespeare’s identity. | Slate
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Are medical mysteries the new true crime? | New Republic
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You want to sell books? Simply confuse the hell out of Taylor Swift fans. | Washington Post
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Arinze Ifeakandu has won the Dylan Thomas Prize. | The Hub
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“More men, including baseball star Bryce Harper, are picking up the traditionally female-targeted love stories.” Yes, dudes are reading more romance novels these days. | Wall Street Journal
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An AI named “Claude” can apparently read a book in under a minute and will now be insufferably tracking his reading and tweeting about it (probably). | Engadget
Also on Lit Hub: Laura Valenza reviews The Five Devils, a cinematic Gothic novel for the contemporary age • The book that made John Wray a better writer • Read from Susie Luo’s debut novel, Paper Names
