{"id":32654,"date":"2025-09-20T04:23:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T04:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/32654\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T04:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T04:23:12","slug":"what-should-you-read-next-here-are-the-best-reviewed-books-of-the-week-literary-hub-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/32654\/","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

Angela Flournoy\u2019s The Wilderness, Jill Lepore\u2019s We the People, and Samanta Schweblin\u2019s Good and Evil\u00a0all 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

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

\"The<\/p>\n

1. The Wilderness<\/a> by\u00a0Angela Flournoy
(Mariner Books)<\/p>\n

6 Rave \u2022 2 Positive \u2022 1 Mixed
Read an excerpt from The Wilderness here<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cExpansive and intimate \u2026 This is not your generic book club selection, celebrating four friends living, laughing, loving. But if you want a ruminating, clear-eyed look at friendship as a means of survival, this is it \u2026 The rigorous work of authentic friendship asks us if we\u2019re doing all we can for ourselves and the world we live in. Flournoy holds this mirror up to her characters and shows how modern life distorts those images despite everybody\u2019s best intentions \u2026 Galvanizing and sustaining.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Lauren LeBlanc (The Boston Globe<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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

2. Good and Evil and Other Stories<\/a> by Samanta Schweblin
(Knopf)<\/p>\n

7 Rave \u2022 1 Mixed<\/p>\n

\u201cMasterly \u2026 Quiet, devastating lucidity is a hallmark of Schweblin\u2019s prose, captured with magnificent precision in a long-standing collaboration with translator Megan McDowell \u2026 We have the impression of a writer absolutely and entirely in control, as Schweblin\u2019s meticulous clarity is never compromised by the horror of her subjects. But if we trust her to take us to the bottom, almost always she will reward us with a glimmer.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Francesca Segal (The Financial Times<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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

3. Wolf Bells<\/a> by Leni Zumas
(Algonquin)<\/p>\n

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

\u201cZumas\u2019s compassion shines through \u2026 Rarely does a story plead with such urgency for a touch of sentimentality, but Zumas never gives in \u2026 Striking \u2026 Urgent.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Ron Charles (The Washington Post<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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

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

1. We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution<\/a> by Jill Lepore
(Liveright)<\/p>\n

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

\u201cMay be [Lepore\u2019s] best yet, a capacious work that lands at the right moment, like a life buoy, as our ship of state takes on water. She\u2019s not here to rearrange deck chairs on the Titanic; she\u2019s here to convey\u2014in vigorous, crystal-clear sentences\u2014what we\u2019re losing, and why \u2026 Lepore senses peril but also a whiff of democratic revival. Asymmetries lie at the foundation of our government; as this gifted scholar reminds us, it\u2019s our duty to tend to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Hamilton Cain (The Los Angeles Times<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"Replaceable<\/p>\n

2. Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy<\/a> by Mary Roach
(W. W. Norton & Company)<\/p>\n

4 Rave<\/p>\n

\u201cAn incredible journey of discovery, humor, awe and inspiration \u2026 Surprises and delights \u2026 Offers humorous anecdotes and peculiar facts \u2026 These curious facts, with attendant and laugh-inducing footnotes, keep us turning the pages, but the real power of the book lies in its humanity \u2026 Praises the progress science has made without resorting to the spectacle and fanfare of the futurist, and without losing sight of the people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Brandy Schillace (The Wall Street Journal)<\/p>\n

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

3. Animal Stories<\/a> by Kate Zambreno
(Transit Books)<\/p>\n

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

\u201cA view on the world using a deep field of focus that renders details near and far with equal clarity. Ostensibly unrelated figures are thus united within the writer\u2019s rich conceptual frame \u2026 Blazingly erudite \u2026 An expressive account \u2026 Many of these glimpses into Kafka\u2019s life and predilections make for pure entertainment \u2026 It is indeed fun, and all its captives are paradoxically but fully free.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Melissa Holbrook Pierson (The Brooklyn Rail<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Angela Flournoy\u2019s The Wilderness, Jill Lepore\u2019s We the People, and Samanta Schweblin\u2019s Good and Evil\u00a0all feature among the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[489,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-32654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}