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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“You’ll fall under the spell of a forlorn voice trapped in the hellscape of modern America.”

June 8, 2023

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The Ultimate Summer 2023 Reading List

Or, the Count of Melty Crispo

June 6, 2023

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Revise, Revise! Anna Badkhen on the Joys of Revision

“This is the process I enjoy the most, because I get to learn anew about my story’s potential.”

June 5, 2023

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A Guide to the 2023 Cannes Film Festival’s Literary Offerings

Jihane Bousfiha on The Zone of Interest, Killers of the Flower Moon, and More

June 2, 2023

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What Banned Books Can Teach Us: Building an LGBTQ Picture Book Library for Pride

Jess deCourcy Hinds on Finding Stories For Her Queer Family

June 1, 2023

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How to Brainwash Yourself: Grace Lavery on the Devices of Trans Identity in Literature

“George Eliot was, unquestionably, a trans author.”

May 31, 2023

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Part of Our World: On the Mermaids of Walt Disney, Hans Christian Andersen, and W.B. Yeats

Gabrielle Bellot: “The mermaid is the Other; she is also us.”

May 31, 2023

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Tool or Terror? Looking to Literature to Better Understand Artificial Intelligence

Gabrielle Bellot Reads Allegra Hyde, Mark O’Connell, and More

May 30, 2023

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25 Nonfiction Books You Need to Read This Summer

Because Novels Are Just Made-Up

May 25, 2023

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The 28 Novels You Need to Read This Summer

The Lit Hub Staff Recommends Books for Beaches, Benches, Backyards, and BBQs

May 24, 2023

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Martin Amis on the Genius of Jane Austen (and What the Adaptations Get Wrong)

Or: Trapped in a Movie Theater with Salman Rushdie, c. 1996

May 22, 2023

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The Freedom to Imagine: Ayad Akhtar on the Importance of Salman Rushdie’s Life and Work

From Akhtar’s Introduction of Rushdie at Last Night’s PEN Gala

May 19, 2023

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Murakami Bingo: Is Animation the Ideal Form for Adapting the “Undadaptable” Author?

A Survey of Murakami Reimaginings, from Burning to Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

May 18, 2023

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Of Songs and Stories: What Bruce Springsteen Learned From Flannery O’Connor

Warren Zanes on the Literary Influences Underpinning Nebraska

May 10, 2023

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Who Was the Only Sitting President to Contribute to a Literary Journal?

Nick Ripatrazone on the Poetic Aspirations of American Presidents

May 10, 2023

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10 Screen Adaptations Much, Much Worse Than The Books They’re Based On

So Many to Choose From!

April 25, 2023

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Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2023

218 Books We’re Looking Forward to Reading This Year

January 12, 2023

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The Latest

Enigmatic Apocalypse: A Dystopian Mystery Reading List

Claire Fuller Recommends Rumaan Alam, Margaret Atwood, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Others

By Claire Fuller June 8, 2023

The Maris Review

S.A. Cosby on Interviewing an FBI Agent, Making Plans, and Family Relationships in All The Sinners Bleed

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review June 8, 2023

More Than Cute: Inside the Complex World of Animal Infancy

Danna Staaf Explores the Commonalities Between Small Humans and Small Animals

By Danna Staaf June 8, 2023

George and I: Frieda Hughes on the Early Days of Raising a Magpie

“His warmly feathered presence was like having an emissary of the natural world grounding me daily.”

By Frieda Hughes June 8, 2023

Fiction/Non/Fiction

Time, Trump, and Trauma: Matt Bell on Living on a Political Mobius Strip

Matt Bell in Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction June 8, 2023

A Babel of Languages: Peter Constantine on the Joys of Translation and Multilingual Writing

Esther Allen Speaks with the Author of The Purchased Bride

By Esther Allen June 8, 2023

Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying

Antony Loewenstein Explains How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World

By Keen On June 8, 2023

Difficult Choices, Then and Now: A Reading List of Motherhood and Adoption

By Julia Franks June 8, 2023

The Annotated Nightstand

The Annotated Nightstand: What Henry Hoke is Reading Now and Next

Featuring Catherine Lacey, Jan Morris, and Amina Cain

The Annotated Nightstand: What Henry Hoke is Reading Now and Next

By Diana Arterian June 8, 2023

Parting Glances: Mourning the Work We Didn’t Get from Queer Director Bill Sherwood

By Paul Morton June 8, 2023

“We Made This Home.” Three Homegrown Queens Authors on the Importance of Centering Marginalized Voices in the New York Novel

By Christine Kandic Torres June 8, 2023

5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

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The Best Reviewed Books of the Month

June 1, 2023 By Book Marks

My First Thriller: D.P. Lyle

June 8, 2023 By Rick Pullen

Ivy Pochoda on Women, Violence, and the Power of Crime Stories

June 8, 2023 By Matthew Coleman Turbeville

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