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Anna North on the Genre You Didn’t Know You Needed: Bogcore

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Is It or Isn’t It? How Generative AI is Poisoning the Literary Well For Everyone

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Why Frank O’Hara is Perfect For Introducing Poetry to Tweens

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What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring Barbara Kingsolver, Sarah Perry, T. Geronimo Johnson, Nathaniel Philbrick, and More

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

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Why Are Publishers Suing Big Tech With One Hand and Embracing AI With the Other?

By Maris Kreizman

How a Novel is Born Among the Superyachts of Monaco

By Frank Huyler

Five Essential Books for Understanding North Korea’s Cult of Personality

By Jonathan Cheng

Read “Cruise Control,” a New Poem by Eric Amling

By Jonny Diamond

Meet Biddy Mason, the Black Matriarch Who Helped Build Los Angeles

By Kevin Waite

After Nickel Mines: On Guns and Other Forms of Self-Protection

By Jaclyn Gilbert

My Body Is a Poem: Emily Hyland In Praise of a Poetics of Physicality

By Emily Hyland

The Annotated Nightstand: What David Naimon Is Reading Now, and Next

By Diana Arterian

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Yiyun Li on Art, Fame, History, and Music Against the Night

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What Lies Behind a Blank Wall? On the Myriad Hidden Meanings of White Paint

By Wendy S. Walters

Keep Hope Alive: Al Sharpton Remembers His Mentor, Jesse Jackson

By Al Sharpton

On Medieval Europe’s Systemic Slaughter of Nonconformist Women

By Eleanor Johnson

The Real Reason the Rent Is Too Damn High: Greed-Driven Corporate Algorithms

By Lindsay Owens

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October 15, 2026

The Best International Fiction of October 2026

By Molly Odintz

Picture This: True Tales of Illustrated Thrillers

By Jason Rekulak

The Brotherhood of Edgar Allan Poe, Shakespeare, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

By Lyndsay Faye

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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Writer, Professor and Pen Pal: Josefine Kals Remembers Stephen Dixon

By Josefine Kals

Jérôme Lindon, Jérôme Lindon: On the Relationship Between Jean Echenoz and His Publisher

By Mark Polizzotti

How Navigating the Demands of Academia Helped Me Cope With Terrible Loss

By Barbara Young Welke

Writing in Times of War: Oleksandr Mykhed on Losing Ukrainian Books to Russian Bombs

By Oleksandr Mykhed

Leah C. Stokes Talks Activism, Democracy and the Struggle For the Earth with Bill McKibben

By Bill McKibben

An Undocumented War: Inside Deportation’s Machinery of Violence

By Daniel Peña

How an Army Librarian Brought the Joy of Reading to the Front Lines

By Molly Guptill Manning

What Brazil’s Political Convulsions Reveal About the Global Far-Right

By Rodrigo Nunes

A Brief History of Iconic Women Spies in the Comics

By Susan E. Kirtley and Nhora Lucía Serrano