“Marlon James has written a masterpiece, the novel of the decade and possibly of the century thus far.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
Don’t look now, but the literary scammers are sending emails to George Orwell. | Lit Hub
Nick Offerman and Gary Lovely discuss the essential wisdom of the late, great Wendell Berry. | Lit Hub In Conversation
From his Cundill Prize-Shortlisted Shattered Lands, Sam Dalrymple looks at the scandalous, tumultuous private life of Pakistan’s founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah. | Lit Hub History
Maris Kreizman recommends books that take weird girl lit to the next level. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
“Environmental thinking on live music encourages a form of atmospheric accounting where scrutiny of the personal trees passes for consideration of the political forest.” On the carbon footprint of a rock show. | Lit Hub Music
On searching Himalayan habitats for elusive snow leopard. | Lit Hub Nature
How J.P. Donleavy’s The Ginger Man clawed its way to press: “He maintained The Ginger Man, a serious work of fiction, was being misrepresented, damaging the book and its prospects and his reputation as a serious writer.” | Lit Hub Biography
Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction and nonfiction. | Lit Hub Bookstores
Why humans can be so moved by the power and personalities of trees. | Lit Hub Nature
“Dogs in Guatemala are like this. It’s what Molly would tell the teenage student beside her, weeping in the street over yet one more brutalized stray, if only it weren’t the worst possible time to stop and give explanations.” Read “Dogs in Guatemala” from Patricia Grace King’s story collection, Those Who Vanish. | Lit Hub Fiction
