5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"A study of limbo and stasis that nonetheless speaks of great movement and change."

May 22, 2025  By Book Marks   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  Reading Lists 
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None of Your Business: Why Writers Shouldn’t Feel Obligated to Share Too Much

Debbie Urbanski on the Invasive Expectations of Book Publicity and Their Unintended Consequences

May 22, 2025  By Debbie Urbanski   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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You See? Generative AI is Bad At Doing My Job

Maris Kreizman on the AI Hallucinations That Made it to the Book Review Section

May 22, 2025  By Maris Kreizman   Posted In  Book News  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  Technology 
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Shitholes, USA: Noel and Liam Gallagher On When Oasis Toured America

"In the end we fucking smashed the arse out of it."

May 22, 2025  By Literary Hub   Posted In  In Conversation  Memoir  Music  News and Culture 
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The Annotated Nightstand: What Alison Bechdel Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Sarah Schulman, Urvashi Vaid, Joan Didion, and Others

May 22, 2025  By Diana Arterian   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  Reading Lists 
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Sleep

Honor Jones

May 22, 2025  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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Nam Le has won Australia’s oldest literary award for the second time.

May 21, 2025  By Dan Sheehan   Posted In  Events  News and Culture  The Hub 
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Here are the CLMP’s 2025 Firecracker Awards finalists.

May 21, 2025  By Literary Hub   Posted In  News and Culture  The Hub 
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Dawn Macdonald’s Northerny has won the 2025 Canadian First Book Prize.

May 21, 2025  By Literary Hub   Posted In  News and Culture  The Hub 
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One great short story to read today: Kevin Barry’s “Fjord of Killary”

May 21, 2025  By Dan Sheehan   Posted In  News and Culture  The Hub 
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Lit Hub Daily: May 21, 2025

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

May 21, 2025  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Lit Hub Daily 
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Writing Towards the Future: Searching for Realism In an Increasingly Surreal World

Fred Lunzer on the Impact of Contemporary Problems on Literary and Science Fiction

May 21, 2025  By Fred Lunzer   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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Donal Ryan on Embracing the Evolution of Language While Preserving Its Essence

"There should always be a hint of beauty in its use, even in the mundane and numberless everyday exchanges that fill our existence."

May 21, 2025  By Donal Ryan   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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The Fact and the Fiction of Philly: Writing Place From Research, Memory and Intuition

Naomi Xu Elegant Offers Some Tips For Navigating the Tension Between Truth and Imagination

May 21, 2025  By Naomi Xu Elegant   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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Should I Stay or Should I Go? Five Novels Involving Destructive Relationships

Meg Serino Recommends Elif Batuman, Julie Buntin, Emma Cline and More

May 21, 2025  By Meg Serino   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  Reading Lists 
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Saying No to Cop City: Reviving a Radical Black Liberation Movement in Atlanta and Beyond

Curtis Duncan on George Floyd, Police Brutality, Community Organizations, and More

May 21, 2025  By Curtis Duncan   Posted In  Features  History  News and Culture  Politics 
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Why Are We So Obsessed With Avocados?

Sarah Allaback and Monique F. Parsons Track the Evolution of America's Fixation

May 21, 2025  By Sarah Allaback and Monique F. Parsons   Posted In  Features  Food  History  News and Culture 
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The Eye of the Storm: Karie Fugett on What Draws Us to Danger in Our Relationships

"I couldn’t have known then that this was only the beginning. Soon, I would carry so much more than I ever asked to hold."

May 21, 2025  By Karie Fugett   Posted In  Features  Memoir  News and Culture 
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Sing to Me

Jesse Browner

May 21, 2025  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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Looks like The Chicago Sun-Times used AI to write a reading list—and wound up with slop.

May 20, 2025  By Emily Temple   Posted In  News and Culture  The Hub 
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