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Lit Parade
lit parade
Nov. 15, 2018
Critics Didn’t Sweat Michelle’s Prose Style — They Just Wanted No-Drama Obama
They found her big-money memoir,
Becoming
, a refreshing return to executive restraint.
By
Hillary Kelly
lit parade
Oct. 24, 2018
Barbara Kingsolver Takes Aim at the Trump Era, and Critics Shoot Back
Unsheltered
isn’t getting much love for plumbing white middle-class insecurity in our time.
By
Hillary Kelly
lit parade
Oct. 10, 2018
Michael Lewis’s
The Fifth Risk
Breaks Through the Trump Book Noise
In a stormy season of Trump exposés, Lewis’s explainer of government (dys)function earns the highest praise.
By
Hillary Kelly
lit parade
Sept. 26, 2018
Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Struggle Is Over, But the Critical Debate Lives On
The question undergirding nearly every review of the now-complete series is whether he regrets that his quest for truth upended his entire family.
By
Hillary Kelly
lit parade
Sept. 18, 2018
The Books Most Everyone Will Be Arguing About This Fall
In a special, forward-looking seasonal edition of Lit Parade.
By
Christian Lorentzen
lit parade
Sept. 6, 2018
Lisa Brennan-Jobs’s Memoir Is the Sleeper Critical Hit of the Season
In our second installment of Lit Parade, a look at a memoir by Steve Jobs’s daughter with literary chops that caught critics by surprise.
By
Hillary Kelly
lit parade
Aug. 22, 2018
Nico Walker’s
Cherry
Got Near-Universal Praise
This is the first installment of Lit Parade, a Vulture guide to what the book world is writing, talking, and getting exercised about.
By
Daniel Rathburn