{"id":24804,"date":"2025-07-26T05:42:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T05:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/24804\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T05:42:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T05:42:18","slug":"what-should-you-read-next-here-are-the-best-reviewed-books-of-the-week-literary-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/24804\/","title":{"rendered":"What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week \u2039 Literary Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Book<\/a><\/p>\n

Michael Clune\u2019s Pan, Barry Mazor\u2019s Blood Harmony: The Everly Brothers Story, and Linn Ullman\u2019s Girl, 1983 all feature among the best reviewed books of the week.<\/p>\n

Brought to you by Book Marks<\/a>, Lit Hub\u2019s home for book reviews.<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

Fiction<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Pan\"<\/a><\/p>\n

1. Pan<\/a> by Michael Clune
(Penguin Press)<\/p>\n

5 Rave \u2022 5 Positive \u2022 1 Pan
Read an excerpt from Pan here<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI am protective enough of the strange, idiosyncratic beauty of this book to worry in turn that some readers might not be up to the challenge of following his more baroque trains of thought \u2026 A testament to the novel\u2019s powers of enchantment; it seduces you into thinking like a child again \u2026 Clune has achieved a remarkable sleight of genre, threading realism\u2019s dull needle with a semi-magical thread.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Jessi Jezewska Stevens (Bookforum<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"Girl,<\/a><\/p>\n

2. Girl, 1983<\/a> by Linn Ullmann
(W. W. Norton and Company)<\/p>\n

6 Rave \u2022 1 Postive \u2022 1 Mixed<\/p>\n

\u201cBeautiful \u2026 Elegantly spare and precise language heightens and underscores the woman\u2019s anxiety and unease. A quietly absorbing portrait.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Anne Foley (Booklist<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"Maggie\"<\/p>\n

3. Maggie; Or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar<\/a> by Katie Yee
(S&S\/Summit Books)<\/p>\n

5 Rave \u2022 1 Positive<\/p>\n

\u201cA truly delightful story \u2026 It took me a few pages to latch onto the arrhythmic, almost jazzy flow of the novel, but the stylistic turbulence is appropriate for a life so thoroughly upended \u2026 Maggie is unfettered by allusions to current events and so comes off as almost timeless \u2026 That perennial quality also shines through in the narrator\u2019s determination to become \u2018someone who can separate her life from her family\u2019s and still survive.\u2019 It\u2019s maybe not the easiest or cheeriest lesson to learn, but it\u2019s an invaluable one that Yee shares with aplomb in this heartfelt debut.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Cory Oldweiler (The Star Tribune<\/a>)<\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

Nonfiction<\/a><\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

1. The Sleep Room: A Sadistic Psychiatrist and the Women Who Survived Him<\/a> by Joe Stock
(Abrams Press)<\/p>\n

4 Rave \u2022 3 Positive \u2022 1 Mixed \u2022 1 Pan<\/p>\n

\u201cA damning portrait \u2026 Stock meticulously details Sargant\u2019s methods and idea \u2026 Chilling \u2026 An utterly shocking yet all-too-familiar story.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Ian Sansom (The Telegraph<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"Blood<\/p>\n

2. Blood Harmony: The Everly Brothers Story<\/a> by Barry Mazor
(Da Capo)<\/p>\n

3 Rave \u2022 3 Positive<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first in-depth biography of one of pop music\u2019s most influential duos \u2026 Barry Mazor strikes a balance between the Everlys\u2019 stormy lives and their enduring music, making a strong case for the Everly Brothers as more than pioneering rock \u00a0songbirds.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Eddie Dean (The Wall Street Journal)<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

3. The Feather Detective: Mystery, Mayhem, and the Magnificent Life of Roxie Laybourne<\/a> by Chris Sweeney
(Avid Reader Press\/Simon & Schuster)<\/p>\n

3 Rave \u2022 2 Positive<\/p>\n

\u201cSweeney\u2019s simple, elegant writing makes the technicalities of Laybourne\u2019s work easy to understand and the sexism she dealt with infuriating \u2026 It also captures what a vivid, contradictory character she was \u2026 Sweeney gives us just enough information about the Smithsonian and the long, troubled history of the study of birds\u2026to put Laybourne in context, but he never overwhelms her compelling story.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Chris Hewitt (The Star Tribune<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Clune\u2019s Pan, Barry Mazor\u2019s Blood Harmony: The Everly Brothers Story, and Linn Ullman\u2019s Girl, 1983 all feature…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[353,49,48,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-24804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}