38% Of American Adults Still Read Books — Here’s How To Reverse The Decline
Only 38% of American adults still read books. Here's how we can revive reading before the habit dies.
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Tag: literature
Lit Hub’s Book Review Roundup This Week, Headlined by Anahid Nersessian on Dad Had a Bad Day
A review of a novel wherein a father seeks perfection through relentless self-optimization, praised for its satire and tenderness.
Two Great Works of Art That Ease the Seasonal Shift
A quiet bar contest and a tale of train-station romance ease the soul into autumn's sobering season.
Romance Novels Taught Me About Consent, Desire, and What a Good Relationship Feels Like
How romance novels filled in the gaps left by abstinence-only sex ed, teaching anatomy, vocabulary and pleasure.
Allende on Writing Without Fear: Letting the Words Find You
Isabel Allende recalls writing The House of the Spirits as a letter to her dying grandfather, finding the freedom to create.
Poetry That Works Through Breakups — and the Rare Few That Offer Redemption Instead
Nine poetry collections about breakups and awakenings, from Carson's Tangoes to Gluck's Meadowlands and Sexton's rowing toward God.
Lydia Mathis Picks Five Novels That Fixate on the Body — From Clones to Stitched-Together Corpses
A reading list of novels that obsess over the body—its decay, possession, and refusal to be refused.
Rabih Alameddine Argues That Laughter Carries Readers Through His Darkest Novels
Rabih Alameddine discusses his tragicomic novel, balancing humor with horror amid personal and national turmoil.
‘Late Summer in the Anthropocene’: Marcus Wicker’s Hibiscus Plant Demands Ceramic Turquoise Views
A poem of late summer and climate grief, wherein a hibiscus child demands its due, and a couple tend their garden amid ruin.
New Reviews Are In: These Are the Books Critics Can’t Stop Talking About This Week
A digest of the best-reviewed books of the week, from Emma Cline's Switzy to Francis Fukuyama's In the Realm of the Last Man.