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In Defense of Pet Portraiture as a Worthy Art Form

Morgan Day on the Practice of Artistic Tradition
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Mieko Kawakami on Sisterhood, Survival, and Finding Hope in the Darkness

In Conversation With Her Translators, Laurel Taylor and Hitomi Yoshio
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If You Want to Understand the Enduring Appeal of Wuthering Heights, Read This Book

Ellen O’Connell Whittet on Karen Powell’s Fifteen Wild Decembers
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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“A family is always a bit of a fantasy, requiring some realist puncturing. Every good biographer, then, is a problem child.”

The Town Where The Last Picture Show Was Filmed Absolutely Hated It

By David Streitfeld

The Origin of Our Species: How Grains and Grasses Fed (and Still Feed) Humankind

By David George Haskell

What Did European Life Look Like at the Dawn of Capitalism?

By Trevor Jackson

Trailblazer or Panderer? Inside the Life and Career of Black Comedian Stepin Fetchit

By Geoff Bennett

The Real Cancel Culture: NYU Has Put an End to Live Student Graduation Speeches

By Steven W. Thrasher

On the Complexities of Navigating Indigenous Life in a Relentlessly Modern World

By Irina Sadovina

On a Bet, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Invented the Way We Still Identify Plants

By Jessica Riskin

Why We Still Need Book Festivals

By Julie Finch

Nazis in America, c. 1938-1941

By Sara Vladic

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Astrofiction: Seven Novels With Astronaut Protagonists

By Cecile Pin

Never Again? On the Death of Universalism After Gaza

By Franco “Bifo” Berardi

How Andrei Tarkovsky Taught Me to Write About the American West

By Caroline Tracey

Pepper Basham on How The Secret Garden Inspired Her Love for British Literature

By Pepper Basham

This Week in Literary History: Hugo Grotius Escapes Prison in a Book Chest

By Literary Hub

A Modern History of American Science and Healthcare in Four Presidential Administrations

By David Blumenthal and James A. Morone

Crime Reads

Crime Reads

March 25, 2026

Bethany C. Morrow Talks Religious Horror, Slow-Burn Storytelling, and Crafting Atmospheres of Anxiety

By Molly Odintz

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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The Best International Crime Novels of March 2026

By Molly Odintz

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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Book Marks

Book Marks

The Best Reviewed Books of the Week

5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

By Literary Hub

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

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Jeff Boyd on Cops, Teachers, and Chicago

By Fiction Non Fiction

For Women’s History Month, A Reproductive Rights Reading List

By Clara Bingham

On the Laughable Origins of the Far Right’s Beloved “Great Replacement Theory”

By Ibram X. Kendi

Understanding the Complex History of Anti-Asian Racism

By Scott Kurashige

Meet Hildegard of Bingen, the German Mystic Who Destigmatized Women’s Health

By Elinor Cleghorn

Seven books that expand the conversation around ambivalent parenthood.

By Brittany Allen

Understanding the Complex History of Anti-Asian Racism

By Scott Kurashige