A Canadian writer wins a $150,000 literary prize, Japanese American art during WWII imprisonment, AAPI books to read this month, and more Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-05-05 12:00:00 UTC ]
Promising books for your May reading list include Alison Bechdel's 'Spent,' Ocean Vuong's 'The Emperor of Gladness' and a new Mark Twain biography from Ron Chernow. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2025-05-01 10:00:00 UTC ]
Trust your reading list to the experts at Tailored Book Recommendations! Our professional book nerds (aka bibliologists) have recommended over ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-04-24 13:00:00 UTC ]
The NEW YORK TIMES has your spring reading list at the ready, We Need Diverse Books announces a reading day, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-03-14 15:00:00 UTC ]
Critic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising new titles — fiction and nonfiction — to consider in February. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2025-02-01 11:00:48 UTC ]
Perhaps predictably, the men-aren’t-reading discourse has made the jump into 2025. The perennial conversation has taken on new weight this year, though, as we begin to be governed by the worst of men, the putrid avatars of a hatefully reactionary masculinity. Increasingly, what’s wrong with men... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-01-23 18:50:47 UTC ]
Beef up your reading list with even more most anticipated books of 2025, why not establish a reading habit while you're at it, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-01-08 16:00:00 UTC ]
Never far from the pulse, a quick glance over Electric Lit’s most popular articles from this year will tell you a lot about what preoccupies our collective consciousness. Our most popular reading list features crime novels, suggesting a heightened level of intrigue when it comes to all things... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2024-12-31 12:05:00 UTC ]
Critic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising new titles — fiction and nonfiction — to consider in January. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2024-12-28 11:00:35 UTC ]
Some years my reading list is more structured and thematically tied than others, some years (particularly when I’m actively researching and writing), my list of recreational reads is embarrassingly thin. This gap year between finishing my first book and starting all-in on my second, I drifted... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2024-12-05 15:00:00 UTC ]
Critic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising new titles — fiction and nonfiction — to consider in December. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2024-11-30 11:00:18 UTC ]
I feel a cultural shift in the way the publishing world is accepting Cambodian American stories. In 2021, Ecco Press posthumously published the groundbreaking story collection, Afterparties, by Anthony Veasna So, opening new doors for Khmer American writers. The next year the University of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-08-26 08:55:20 UTC ]
The former Reader-in-Chief released his summer reading list for 2024 and it includes a wide range of fiction and nonfiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-08-13 13:30:00 UTC ]
Brooding on Existential Mysteries in Stephen King’s You Like It Darker, by J. Madison Davis Book Reviews [email protected] Mon, 06/24/2024 - 15:20 Photo by Shane LeonardAs I wrote in World Literature Today some years ago, the quality of Stephen... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2024-06-24 20:20:45 UTC ]
The history of abortion in the United States is the story of my life—or my life’s work. I’ve run a clinic since 1971, two years before Roe and now, fifty-three years later—two years post-Roe—I’m still at it, running Choices Women’s Medical Center. Since the roll-back in women’s human rights that... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-06-24 08:54:36 UTC ]
Can’t figure out what book to bring to the beach? The ultimate summer reading list is here. | Lit Hub Reading Lists Who’s the worst dad in literature? Garth Risk Hallberg on the most dysfunctional fathers of the Western canon. | Lit Hub Criticism “Each moment of recognition was only possible... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-06-15 10:30:46 UTC ]
The question of whether to attend a college reunion is often met with mixed emotions—nostalgia, curiosity, a healthy dose of apprehension. What will it feel like to go back to the campus of our youth? How will our lives compare to our classmates’? Which parts of our old selves might get dredged... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-05-29 08:55:03 UTC ]
How do you write a story that’s for you? Anna Noyes on writing “the kind of book that keeps me awake.” | Lit Hub Craft Jessie Rosen recommends a reading list of superstitions, featuring Jennifer Weiner, Yangsze Choo, Morgan Jerkins, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists Claire Messud’s This Strange... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-05-17 10:30:12 UTC ]
I have a long and complicated relationship with superstitions. Being raised in an Italian family means you’re schooled early and often in the myriad ways to avoid bad luck, or worse. Never put a hat on a bed, always leave from the same door you entered, do not even think about passing a baby... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-05-17 08:52:43 UTC ]
“I had assumed my mother had written a novel about real estate—after all the title was A Hot Property…” Kate Feiffer on reading her mother’s x-rated novel and considering female-authored erotica as a form of social critique. | Lit Hub Memoir Jessica Shattuck recommends a reading list of of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-05-13 10:30:32 UTC ]