Behold the 103 best book covers of the year, as picked by the experts. | Lit Hub
How much pain should we tolerate for publicity? Or, when your book tour is interrupted by a near-death experience. | Lit Hub Memoir
How Paul McCartney responded to the Beatles’ slow but inevitable disintegration. (Hint: Not joyfully.) | Lit Hub Music
From the archives: Jan Morris talks travel, dictionaries, and other people’s diaries. | Lit Hub In Conversation
Here is the best reviewed sci-fi, fantasy, and horror of 2022 (according to Book Marks). | Lit Hub
A roundup of the best traditional mysteries of the year. | CrimeReads
David Ulin writes a eulogy for Bookforum, a magazine that “sought to make connections beyond the page.” | Los Angeles Times
“Where publishers really fail is going to the exact same customer over and over and over again.” Dispatches from a panel addressing diversity in publishing, featuring Min Jin Lee and Roxane Gay. | PEN America
Read (and sign) the HarperCollins Union’s open letter. | HarperCollins Union
Sophie Vershbow digs into how, exactly, a book becomes a New York Times bestseller. | Esquire
“Le Carré attributed his skill as a writer, and as a spy, to a childhood under siege.” Sam Adler-Bell on John le Carré’s letters, and his lifelong struggle with his father’s legacy. | The Baffler
Remembering lesbian pulp fiction author Marijane Meaker. | The Guardian
Ann Patchett, Hua Hsu, Hernan Diaz, and others share highlights from their year in reading. | The Wall Street Journal
“There is value in learning to feel as well as think, to be emotional even as we continue to pursue questions with rigor.” Imani Perry on rejecting “the gospel of objectivity.” | The Atlantic
“Stories happen to be the most human thing we have to offer, right? Which means that the work that we’re doing in storytelling is actually human work.” Jason Reynolds reflects on being the national ambassador for young people’s literature. | NPR
Katy Waldman deems 2022 the year of the sequel: “Authors crane their necks backward, in search of lost time, or money.” | The New Yorker
Alina Stefanescu considers “the erotics of intellectual inquiry.” | Poetry
Why is the US so ill-equipped to help adults who struggle with reading? | ProPublica
“I think the literary scene today is extremely diverse and exploratory.” Jane Smiley recommends reading widely (and in a hot tub). | New York Times
Naomi Gordon-Loebl considers Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble in the age of Ron DeSantis. | The Nation
