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What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring Ben Lerner, Patrick Radden Keefe, Caro Claire Burke, and more Ben Lerner’s Transcription, Patrick Radden Keefe’s London Falling, and Caro Claire Burke’s Yesteryear all...

The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – review roundup

Loss Protocol by Paul McAuley (Gollancz, £22)In a Britain racked by the effects of climate change, about 50 years from now, Marc Winters’ quiet...

Lit Hub Daily: April 10, 2026

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1847, newspaper tycoon Joseph J. Pulitzer, namesake of the Pulitzer Prizes, is born. How a pulp magazine...

Deborah Levy: ‘CS Lewis’s White Witch terrified me – but I wanted to meet her’

My earliest reading memoryThe Cat in the Hat by Dr Seuss, particularly the little red fan the cat holds in the tip of its tail. At the...

Molly Crabapple on History as a Necromantic Art

And Ten Tips to Help Your Conjuring This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. I spent seven years writing my newest book. Here...

Go Gentle by Maria Semple review – a joyfully clever New York romcom

What would Marcus Aurelius have made of the Kardashians? Would Seneca have been amused by mindfulness apps? These were questions I had never consciously...

The Annotated Nightstand: What Anne Enright is Reading Now, And Next

Featuring Niamh Campbell, Sally Hayden, Louise Kennedy, and More Anne Enright, the author of several novels and winner of the Carnegie Medal for The Forgotten...

An Open Letter to the Jewish Book Council From a Concerned Group of Jewish Writers

Below is an open letter from a group of Jewish authors to the Jewish Book Council (JBC). A group of us—consisting of writers with...