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Barbara Kingsolver’s Partita, Sarah Perry’s Death of an Ordinary Man, T. Geronimo Johnson’s The Occidental Book of the Dead, and Nathaniel Philbrick’s The Rush all feature among the best reviewed books of the week.

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

Barbara Kingsolver’s Partita, Sarah Perry’s Death of an Ordinary Man, T. Geronimo Johnson’s The Occidental Book of the Dead, and Nathaniel Philbrick’s The Rush all feature among the best reviewed b…

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Deesha Philyaw explores the power of raising the stakes in fiction.

From Dud to Delicious: Deesha Philyaw on Raising the Stakes in Fiction

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. In 2006, when I started writing the book that would eventually become my debut novel The True Confessions of First Lady Fr…

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#booksky for #NobelPrize #womenwriters #AnneCarson #poetrylovers 📚💙 Where to start with Anne Carson, the Canadian multi-award-winning poet and now the 2026 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature? If you’ve never read any of her work, here’s a guide. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/b...

How an army librarian brought literature to World War II’s front lines.

How an Army Librarian Brought the Joy of Reading to the Front Lines

In September 1942, Army Chief Librarian Ray Trautman was on the final leg of a world tour of US installations when he arrived in Australia. Here, his mission was twofold: take the temperature of th…

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#booksky for #NobelPrize #womenwriters #AnneCarson 📚💙 1 of 2 Anne Carson wins Nobel prize in literature 2026. The world's most prestigious literature prize goes to the Canadian poet, essayist known for genre-defying works such as Autobiography of Red. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/o...

#booksky for #NobelPrize #womenwriters #poetrylovers #booklovers 📚💙 Anne Carson, the genre-bending “bold and inventive” Canadian writer, wins Nobel Prize in literature. www.cnn.com/2026/10/08/s...

Anne Carson, the genre-bending Canadian writer, wins Nobel Prize in literature | CNN

Anne Carson, the Canadian writer and classicist whose work blends verse, prose and essay with influences from classical myths, has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in literature for her “bold and inventive oe...

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#booksky highly recommended for literary #thrillers #spyfiction #booklovers 📚💙 Obituary: Len Deighton has died aged 97. He was a giant of modern classics with bestselling thrillers & spy fiction (among other works of fiction & nonfiction). wapo.st/4uEBmYu & www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

#booksky Highly recommended for the happily voracious among us - I'm one - who love reading multiple books on the go rather than just one at a time. Nom nom nom. Yum. #booklovers 📚💙

Reactor Magazine@reactorsff.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Jo Walton recently mentioned that she's always reading 16 books at once, so we asked her...how? In this article, @bluejo.bsky.social maps out her system, tracking different categories, genres, and formats, and rules for reading...it's really very simple!

‘As a friend of mine said, misogyny is like water: stop up one leak, and it will spill out somewhere else. If a man is inclined to sexual abuse, he probably won’t lack chances.’ Susan Pedersen on Epstein and entitlement. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Susan Pedersen · Diary: Men explain Epstein to me

You might think, given the subject, that the male hosts I think of as the podcast bros would have invited on a woman or...

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In this episode, Nate speaks with primatologist and author @christinewebb.bsky.social about human exceptionalism – the deeply embedded belief that humans are separate from and superior to the rest of nature. www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/213-...

#booksky for #shortstories #booklovers #HybridFiction #weirdfiction 📚💙 Kierkegaardian dread & alienation: Reflections on You Should Come With Me Now: Stories of Ghosts by M. John Harrison. bobbygw.com/2026/03/07/y...

#booksky for #wellbeing #selfhelp #womenwriters 📚💙 Obituary: Margareta Magnusson,91, Dies. She Wrote of Cleaning Up Before Dying. Her bestselling book encouraged people to tidy up homes & lives as death approached - as a gift for loved ones & to revisit memories. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...

Margareta Magnusson,91, Dies; Wrote of Cleaning Up Before Dying

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Hey, it’s me! I wrote that! #booksky

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 7mo ago

And without missing a beat, I come across this lovely blog/newsletter title whoevenreads.com (about my 50,000 word book published Tuesday).

#booksky highly recommended for #literaryfiction #booklovers 🖋️📚💙 Obituary: António Lobo Antunes, One of Europe’s Most Revered Writers, Dies at 83. In an award-winning career, he was the author of dozens of novels that grappled with Portugal’s legacy of dictatorship & colonialism. bit.ly/4licZeD

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own #WomensArt #WomensHistoryMonth Portrait by her sister Vanessa Bell

#Highly recommended #WomensRights #feminism #activism #Iran♀️✊💙 Women's Rights in Iran: a highly recommended independent annual report offers a recap of events in 2025 as related to women’s rights in Iran. wncri.org/2026/03/03/a...

Annual Report 2026: From Protests, to Uprising, and the Role of Iranian Women

On the eve of International Women’s Day 2026, the NCRI Women’s Committee presents its Annual Report 2026, offering a recap

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#booksky for #booklovers 📚💙 How authors can protect themselves from scams, according to a book publicist. lithub.com/how-authors-...

#booksky for #literaryfiction #movies #booklovers 🖋️📚💙 Tom Hanks will play Abe Lincoln in his movie adaptation of George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo. lithub.com/tom-hanks-wi...

Tom Hanks will play Abe Lincoln in his adaptation of George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo.

Looks like President Lincoln’s distinctive stovepipe top hat is about to become a stovepipe Tom hat. According to Variety, Nice Guy Actor Tom Hanks is set to play the mourning President Linco…

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#booksky for #sciencefiction #horrorfiction #fantasyfiction #booklovers 📚💙 Obituary: Dan Simmons, Prolific, Acclaimed, Multi-Award-Winning Novelist - and Known Especially for His ‘Hyperion Cantos’ Series - Dies at 77. www.booknotification.com/news/dan-sim...

#booksky recommended for #shortstories #womenwriters #literaryfiction #booklovers 🖋️📚💙 LARB Podcast Interview: Bestselling author Lauren Groff (Fates and Furies, Matrix, The Vaster Wilds) on Brawler*, her approach to writing stories, Flannery O'Connor, & more. lareviewofbooks.org/av/lauren-gr...

#booksky highly recommended for #health #wellbeing #culture #arts #goodlife 📚💙 Essay: On the myriad ways in which the arts can improve our health. By author* Daisy Fancourt, UCL Professor of Psychobiology & Epidemiology & Head of the Social Biobehavioural Research Group. bit.ly/3OGxZQ4

“Jesse Jackson loved us—sometimes before we loved ourselves.” @thrasherxy.bsky.social on Jackson’s legacy of support for LGBTQ rights and HIV/AIDS prevention.

Jesse Jackson Loved Us—Sometimes Before We Loved Ourselves

“Before they came for us, and woke, and us, and power, they came for Jesse Jackson,” Kiese Laymon, the author of Heavy and How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America, wrote just hours after …

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#booksky for #literaryfiction 🖋️📚💙 International Booker Prize Nominees: 13 Books to Get You Talking. Novels by Daniel Kehlmann, Olga Ravn and Gabriela Cabezón Cámara are among the 13 titles nominated for the renowned award for fiction translated into English. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/b...

#booksky for #poetry 📚💙 Profile: How a New Yorker Put Poetry on the London Underground. Forty years ago, Judith Chernaik had the idea to put poems in London's subway system. It has been a great success ever since. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/b... & the poetry website poemsontheunderground.org

How a New Yorker Put Poetry on the London Underground

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#booksky for #literaryfiction #womenwriters 🖋️📚💙 Profile: Tayari Jones, bestselling author of An American Marriage, and now Kin, her latest novel, which “should clinch Jones’s place among the bards of Atlanta, alongside Anne River Siddons, Natasha Trethewey and Alfred Uhry.” bit.ly/3Op7Vcg

#booksky highly recommended for #memoirs #womenwriters #booklovers 📚💙 Excellent, thoughtful essay-review on Gisèle Pelicot's memoir, A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides. wapo.st/46f4Lha

#booksky highly recommended for #memoirs #feminism #womenwriters #booklovers 📚💙 Gisèle Pelicot Shares Her Story. Interview: ‘They All Tried to Break Me.’ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...

#booksky for #literaryfiction #BookerPrize #booklovers 🖋️📚💙 Explore the 10 winning novels from a decade of the International Booker Prize. thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

#booksky for #travel #essays #literaryfiction #booklovers 📚💙 Essay-appreciation: On Cees Nooteboom's bristling wit and melancholy. [He died this week, aged 92.] By Madeleine Thien, novelist. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...