Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo, Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake, and Richard Powers’ Playground all feature among the best reviewed fiction titles of the month. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * 1. Intermezzo by Sally Rooney (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) 14 Rave • 7... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-09-27 08:59:28 UTC ]
Jo Hamya’s The Hypocrite, Elif Shafak’s There Are Rivers in the Sky, Yoko Ogawa’s Mina’s Matchbox all feature among the best reviewed fiction titles of the month. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * 1. The Hypocrite by Jo Hamya (Pantheon) 6 Rave • 8 Positive “Glides... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-08-30 08:56:43 UTC ]
Evan Friss’ The Bookshop, Katherine Bucknell’s Christopher Isherwood: Inside Out, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde all feature among the best reviewed books of the month. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * 1. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-08-30 08:56:41 UTC ]
Kevin Barry’s The Heart in Winter, Lev Grossman’s The Bright Sword, and Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s Long Island Compromise all feature among the best reviewed fiction titles of the month. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * 1. The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-07-31 12:18:55 UTC ]
Adam Higginbotham’s Challenger, Daniel Handler’s And Then? and Then? What Else?, and Kathleen Hanna’s Rebel Girl all feature among the best reviewed fiction titles of the month. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * 1. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-05-31 08:57:50 UTC ]
Marilynne Robinson’s Reading Genesis, Tessa Hulls’ Feeding Ghosts, and Kristine S. Ervin’s Rabbit Heart all feature among the best reviewed fiction titles of the month Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * 1. Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar, Straus and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-03-29 08:55:59 UTC ]
Good book criticism is booming right now. I have at least some degree of confidence in saying this because for the past six years, I’ve been keeping track of my favorite reviews to prepare for these annual roundups, and my 2023 longlist was by far the biggest and most difficult to narrow down.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-12-11 12:47:20 UTC ]
Way back in the mid-aughts when I first started writing about books, pitching a print publication was the only reliable way for book critics to get paid, and third-person point of view was all the vogue. Much has changed in the years since: Newspaper and magazine book sections have shuttered,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-12-19 09:55:21 UTC ]
The 28th issue of Kayak—a literary magazine edited and published by George Hitchcock out of Santa Cruz, California—appeared in 1972. The issue includes mostly poetry, as well as a few book reviews, a work of verse fiction, collages, illustrations lifted from old books and manuals, and an acerbic... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-10-19 08:57:28 UTC ]
On the occasion of the death of the Queen of England, we've rounded up a handful of reviews of books on the queen and her court that we've run over the years. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-09-13 04:00:00 UTC ]
With 26bn views – and the ability to influence global sales – the social media app’s reading corner #BookTok is not as niche as it seemsFifteen seconds is all you need. Point your phone camera to a shelf and hold up your favourite book, or three. Add a trending soundtrack, a caption, a couple of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-11-16 16:30:13 UTC ]
There's more great children's books being published than ever before -- this is how to find the best children's book reviews online. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-08-30 10:36:00 UTC ]
Author Imogen Edwards-Jones and friends have launched the online Great Big Book Club featuring author interviews, book reviews and a series of “Lockdown Lunches”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-27 10:03:35 UTC ]
Of the thousands of book reviews we published this year, these are the 10 most-read reviews of books that published in 2019. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-12-23 05:00:00 UTC ]
Stella Count researchers say gender parity reached by most publicationsResearchers have praised most Australian publications for reaching gender parity in their book review sections last year.Of published book reviews in Australia in 2018 49% were for books written by women, according to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-09-18 18:00:08 UTC ]
Hello from Book Marks, Lit Hub’s “rotten tomatoes for books!” How It Works: Every day, our staff scours the most important and active outlets of literary journalism—from established national broadsheets to regional weeklies and alternative litblogs—and logs their book reviews. Each of those... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-07-26 16:00:10 UTC ]
The author's local newspaper pledges to reinstate book reviews after his fans take out subscriptions. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2019-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Authors and critics have called for newspapers to increase the space they allow for children’s book reviews after only 7% of the titles chosen for newspapers’ books of the year round-ups were for kids. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon has come under fire for removing reviews from its online book listings, with some customers having had all their reviews removed or being blocked from posting further reviews. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
You will not read many author interviews or book reviews on this blog unless a book is something special. Jonathan Abrams’ “All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of The Wire” is something special. Abrams, a senior writer who who covers the NBA for Bleacher Report, is a superb sports reporter.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Baltimore Sun | 2018-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]