Lit Hub

A new three part series about Charles Dickens “has been pitched as a come-up story, with emphasis on Dickens’s flâneur tendencies.”
https://lithub.com/a-new-series-on-charles-dickens-takes-your-favorite-victorian-novelist-to-the-streets/

Francis Spufford’s Nonesuch, Jordy Rosenberg’s Night Night Fawn, and Chrisopher Clark’s A Scandal in Königsberg all feature among the best reviewed books of the month.
https://bookmarks.reviews/the-best-reviewed-books-of-the-month-2/

Tonight, the National Book Critics Circle announced the recipients of its book awards for the 2025 publishing year.
https://lithub.com/here-are-the-winners-of-the-national-book-critics-circle-awards/

Two books (and a movie!) about road trips that get out of hand.
https://lithub.com/hitting-the-road-here-are-three-recommendations-about-trips-that-get-out-of-hand/

We’re finally getting a reissue of Don DeLillo’s Amazons.
https://lithub.com/don-delillos-sexy-hockey-novel-is-getting-reissued/

True crime gets personal in a new podcast from M. Gessen.
https://lithub.com/a-new-podcast-from-m-gessen-explores-an-ugly-family-secret/

No one’s ever looked forward to a diagram as much as we look forward to these Venns.
https://lithub.com/this-weeks-news-in-venn-diagrams-mar-27/

“To Baba, the lush voices and machine-backed rhythm were a bitter impwa dish, which clung to the tongue even after several glasses of water.” Read from Mubanga Kalimamukwento’s new novel, The Shipikisha Club.
https://lithub.com/the-shipikisha-club

Poet Maggie Smith takes you on a tour of her writing space.
https://lithub.com/take-a-tour-of-poet-maggie-smiths-writing-space

Adrian McKinty on when science killed God (and Richard Holmes’s The Boundless Deep): “If Darwin killed God and Kelvin killed any point to doing anything where does that leave the artist or indeed the ordinary human being?”
https://lithub.com/19th-century-blues-when-science-killed-god-and-made-some-englishmen-sad/

NYC bodegas are special places, and some are getting a little more literary.
https://lithub.com/books-x-bodegas-is-bringing-little-libraries-into-bronx-bodegas/

Yann Martel explains why writers need to “follow the chemistry.”
https://lithub.com/yann-martel-on-playing-with-form-to-tell-a-story

Stephen Colbert is co-writing a new Lord of the Rings movie and Channing Tatum has written a romance novel with Roxane Gay.
https://lithub.com/two-of-your-favorite-screen-stars-are-going-literary/

“Alongside noting each season’s nod to diversity, there has been a steady critique of what the series glosses over, particularly the oppressive, often violent hierarchies, masked by fashion and sentiment.” Patricia Matthew considers the fourth season of Bridgerton.
https://lithub.com/is-bridgertons-diversity-more-than-just-window-dressing/

Hosted, written, and reported by M. Gessen, a new podcast follows one journalist’s efforts to unravel family lies.
https://lithub.com/a-new-podcast-from-m-gessen-explores-an-ugly-family-secret/

Langston Hughes, translator? Ricardo Wilson II explores the writer’s experience in Mexico and his struggle to bring Mexican and Cuban writers to American audiences.
https://lithub.com/langston-hughes-novelist-poet-activist-and-translator/

“During a January thaw, water trickled from a burst pipe down an interior wall, into a basement storage closet, and ruined all of Dora’s wedding dresses.” Read from Louise Erdrich’s new collection, Python’s Kiss.
https://lithub.com/wedding-dresses/

Am I the asshole for thinking book publicity is cringe?
https://lithub.com/am-i-the-asshole-for-thinking-so-much-book-publicity-is-cringe/

Bar Fridman-Tell recommends six books that unravel and remake fairytales by Kelly Link, Roshani Chokshi, T. Kingfisher, and more.
https://lithub.com/six-retellings-that-pull-apart-fairy-tales-and-stitch-them-back-together-in-new-and-wondrous-ways/

“With minimal skepticism, he platforms schemes that range from the contested and implausible…to the wholly impossible.” Five book reviews you need to read this week.
https://lithub.com/5-book-reviews-you-need-to-read-this-week-8