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Maris Kreizman on the Importance of a Good Reader
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On Alt Text Image Description as Literary Practice

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Claire Vaye Watkins on Writing a Love Letter to the Mojave Desert

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of Yellow Pine
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This Week in Literary History:
O. Henry is Released from Prison

“If he had simply gone back to Austin when he was summoned to stand trial, he would have been acquitted.”

Penelope Speaks: Rebecca Solnit on the Western Literary Tradition of Silencing Women

By Rebecca Solnit

The First Reviews of
Every Raymond Chandler Novel

By Book Marks

On the Public Historians Reminding Us How Easy It Is to Repeat the Mistakes of the Past

By Jim Downs

For Marx, Capitalism Was Always Going to Destroy the Environment

By Kohei Saito

God, Sex, Porn, Art, and Aids: Revisiting the Culture Wars of the 1980s and 90s

By Isaac Butler

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks

The Annotated Nightstand: What Victoria Chang is Reading Now, and Next

By Diana Arterian

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

By Literary Hub

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

By Literary Hub

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

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“The Romantics,” a Poem by Maya C. Popa

By Maya C. Popa

How Medical Racism Impacted the Work of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston

By Jesse Waggoner

A Culture of Collaboration: The Legacy of Lunigiana’s Traveling Booksellers

By Antonio Romani

Why Writing Feels So Hard (and How to Make it Easier)

By April Dávila

Why We Need More Woman-Centric Retellings of The Odyssey

By Mary Helen Specht

What Romance Novels Taught Me About Writing Literary Fiction

By Rowan Beaird

Crime Reads

Crime Reads

July 23, 2026

The Duplicitous Heroine in Wilkie Collins's No Name

By Olivia Rutigliano

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

By CrimeReads

The Best Psychological Thrillers of July 2026

By Molly Odintz

Seicho Matsumoto's A Quiet Place Is a Dark Fairy-Tale of Post-War Japan

By Pico Iyer

Book Marks

Book Marks

The First Reviews of
Every Raymond Chandler Novel

5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Who, Exactly, Were All Those Girls in Renoir’s Paintings?

By Catherine Ostler

What Writing About Bobby Kennedy Taught Me About Male Power

By Carson Markland

Nine Feminist Mythological Reimaginings to Read After You Watch The Odyssey

By Tanaz Bhathena

How Israel Turned Gaza Into an “Annihilation Zone”

By Eyal Weizman

When We Fight, We Win: Why I Am Suing Northwestern University—and the US Government

By Steven W. Thrasher

More Than a War Diary: Angela Flournoy on Jean Said Makdisi’s Beirut Fragments

By Angela Flournoy

This Week in Literary History: The Catcher in the Rye is Published

By Literary Hub

More Than a War Diary: Angela Flournoy on Jean Said Makdisi’s Beirut Fragments

By Angela Flournoy

On Trying—and Failing—to Write the Lives of Children in a Syrian Detention Camp

By Elizabeth H. Winthrop