5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Here’s a novel so pumped up and shredded it can’t possibly sit still on a shelf.”

June 5, 2025  By Book Marks   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  Reading Lists 
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States’ Rights to Racism: The Existential Fight to Enshrine Civil Rights in the Constitution

Brando Simeo Starkey on the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, Racism, and Federal Power

June 5, 2025  By Brando Simeo Starkey   Posted In  Features  History  Politics 
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Singing For Last Time: What It’s Like to Lose Your Voice—Forever

Greta Morgan on Finding New Ways to Express Her Creative Passions After a Devastating Diagnosis

June 5, 2025  By Greta Morgan   Posted In  Features  Health  Memoir  Music  News and Culture 
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Inside the First Non-Stop Trans-Atlantic Flight That No One Has Ever Heard Of

David Rooney on John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown, Two Fearless Aviators Forgotten by History

June 5, 2025  By David Rooney   Posted In  Features  History  News and Culture  Technology 
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The Wrong Story: Jeremy Atherton Lin on Writing Love and Politics

“We conspired to look unflinchingly at the messy parts.”

June 5, 2025  By Jeremy Atherton Lin   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  Memoir  News and Culture  Politics 
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The Annotated Nightstand: What Kate Briggs Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Mónica de la Torre, Roy Claire Potter, Ella Frears, and Others

June 5, 2025  By Diana Arterian   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  Reading Lists 
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The Catch

Yrsa Daley-Ward

June 5, 2025  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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Susan Choi on Korea

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

June 5, 2025  By Fiction Non Fiction   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Fiction/Non/Fiction  In Conversation  Lit Hub Radio  Literary Criticism 
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Writer Edmund White has died at 85.

June 4, 2025  By James Folta   Posted In  Biography  Book News  News and Culture  The Hub 
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Seven books to scratch that Pride and Prejudice itch.

June 4, 2025  By Brittany Allen   Posted In  Film and TV  News and Culture  Reading Lists  Style  The Hub 
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Lit Hub Daily: June 4, 2025

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

June 4, 2025  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Lit Hub Daily 
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Melissa Febos on the Unexpected Joys, Discoveries, and Sexiness of Celibacy

The Author of “The Dry Season” in Conversation with Sarah Viren

June 4, 2025  By Sarah Viren   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  In Conversation  Literary Criticism  Memoir 
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Ocean Vuong: “This is where we must always return… pure possibility undergirded by pure humility.”

From His Keynote Speech from the 2025 Whiting Awards Ceremony

June 4, 2025  By Ocean Vuong   Posted In  Book News  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism 
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Confessions of a Pugilist: What Mike Tyson Learned from His Mother (and Alexander the Great)

Mark Kriegel on Tyson’s Unstable Childhood, Lorna Mae, and the Fighter’s Historic Obsession

June 4, 2025  By Mark Kriegel   Posted In  Biography  Features  History  News and Culture  Sports 
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What Do Americans Really Want to Read? We (Might) Have the Answer

Tom Comitta Explores the Country’s Literary Imagination As Revealed Through Public Opinion Polls and Surveys

June 4, 2025  By Tom Comitta   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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What Does a Million Years Mean to You? Five Books That Explore Deep Time

Tim Weed Recommends Robert Hazen, Marcia Bjornerud, Thomas Halliday and More

June 4, 2025  By Tim Weed   Posted In  Climate Change  Features  News and Culture  Reading Lists  Science 
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Novelist’s Nonfiction: Writing Across the Gaps in the Record

Aidan Ryan on Applying His Background in Fiction to the Challenges of Biography

June 4, 2025  By Aidan Ryan   Posted In  Biography  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  News and Culture 
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Learning Luxury: Exploring the History and Practice of High-End Hospitality

Maggie Stiefvater: “Here is another way luxury differs from wealth. Wealth does what you tell it to. Luxury surprises you.”

June 4, 2025  By Maggie Stiefvater   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  History 
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Tongo Eisen-Martin on Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Healers

In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

June 4, 2025  By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast    Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  In Conversation  Lit Hub Radio  Literary Criticism  Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast 
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Lisa Ko on Destroying Her Diaries

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds

June 4, 2025  By Thresholds    Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  In Conversation  Lit Hub Radio  Literary Criticism  Thresholds 
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