1+ day, 21+ hour ago  (199+ words) Ben Lerner's Transcription, Patrick Radden Keefe's London Falling, and Caro Claire Burke's Yesteryear all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by'Book Marks, Lit Hub's home for book reviews. 1. Transcription by Ben Lerner (FSG) 18 Rave…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago  (661+ words) Our favorite criticism of the week includes Sadie Stein on Agnieszka Szpila's Hexes of the Deadwood Forest, Erin Somers on Jay Mc Inerney's See You on the Other Side, Kristen Roupenian on Marie NDiaye's The Witch, Ginny Hogan on Caro…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago  (765+ words) I. In the fall of 1985, I discovered a tiny bookstore in Poughkeepsie, NY. It was a hot, humid evening. I'd escaped from Freshman Orientation and was wandering aimlessly through the streets of this tiny town, looking for some sort of refuge....

4+ day, 21+ hour ago  (357+ words) Sara Petersen: What initially pulled you into the trad-o-sphere? I'd love to hear about your entry point, particularly as someone without kids. I know on a fundamental level that social media is a mass form of performative rot, and yet…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago  (298+ words) Repetition has a bad rap in a "culture that privileges novelty and growth over the cyclical and regenerative" (Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing), often signifying stuckness or a lack of originality'of not being your own person. In and beyond…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago  (632+ words) Ben Lerner, Transcription (FSG) "Remarkable " Lerner's voice is one that interrupts itself, repeats history, and reorders the world." "Harpers Patrick Radden Keefe, London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth (Doubleday) "[Keefe's] stylish,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (1909+ words) The leg, a line. A close-up of a woman's leg. And the leg is seen because the woman is tying her shoes. She's fast, someone says in a low register, or it's just about the way her thighs push together…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (371+ words) Fortunately, there are lots of new and upcoming children's books that encourage interactivity, from picture books that break the fourth wall to code- and cipher-filled YA mysteries that invite readers to play along. Here are ten new titles with interactive…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (383+ words) The shortlist for the International Booker Prize is out today, and it includes many books published by women and independent presses, two debuts, and writers from eight nationalities and four continents. The International Booker celebrates fiction and collections that have…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (404+ words) Tana French, The Keeper (Viking) "Great crime fiction." "Kirkus Colm T'ib'n, The News from Dublin: Stories (Scribner) "T'ib'n demonstrates once again the depth of his emotional and moral imagination." "Times Literary Supplement Yann Martel, Son of Nobody (W. W. Norton) Serena Kutchinsky,…...