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Leigh Bardugo on 50 Years of Interview with the Vampire and the Immortality of Anne Rice’s Lestat

How does an author’s mythology enter the collective consciousness?
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Lydia Millet on Writing a Double Novel of Grief and Loss

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of Fair Ones
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Do Smartphones Belong in Fiction?

Ankur Thakkar on Navigating Technology on the Page
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Thomas McGuane is Writing the Most Vital Literature of the Trump Era

Ryan Chapman on the Recent Story Collection A Wooded Shore

On the Life-and-Death Cycles at the Heart of Sylvia Plath’s Work

By Kelly Marie Coyne

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

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 Gaby Iori

Trans Becoming and the Failure of Language

By Sanam Sheriff

What Would Mr. Darcy Earn Today? And Other Jane Austen-Related Money Matters

By Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey

“Sensual Songs for Eight-Year-Olds,” a Poem by Patricia Lockwood

By Patricia Lockwood

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Adam Wilson on Plot vs. “Concept” (and Why He’ll Never Write a Yankees Fan)

By Sam Axelrod

Forgiving City, City of Atwood: Paul Theroux Visits Toronto

By Paul Theroux

To Become a Goddess: Kristen Millares Young on Motherhood and Marriage

By Kristen Millares Young

How a Lightning Strike Affected My Identity—And My Main Character’s

By Nafissa Thompson-Spires

How Feminist Activist Robin Morgan Helped Preserve the Legacy of Sylvia Plath

By Emily Van Duyne

How the British Media Legitimized J.K. Rowling’s Transphobia

By Gina Gwenffrewi

Crime Reads

Crime Reads

October 7, 2026

The Best Paperback Releases of the Month: October 2026

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Prisoner of Love: On Research, Ethics, and Matters of the Heart

By Jack El-Hai

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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The Best Crime Novels, Mysteries, and Thrillers, of the Month: October 2026

By Molly Odintz

Book Marks

Book Marks

5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

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Revisiting an Unsung 100-Year-Old Novel From an Intellectual New York Family

By Mabel Capability Taylor

“You Have to Love It.” Brittany Cavallaro on Writing for Young Adults

By Brittany Cavallaro

Revelations, Regret, Relief: Nine Books With Big Secrets

By Julia Cohen

How Jimmy Stewart in It’s a Wonderful Life Embodies the Best of America

By Emily St. James and Lauren Theisen

Why We are Suing the City of Los Angeles to Save Libraries

By Jenan A. Matari and Nora Lester Murad

The Real Technofascists of Silicon Valley: Why Big Tech Oligarchs Hate Democracy

By Amy Westervelt

What Happens When Humans Show Up: On the Ecosystem Beneath Our Feet

By Frank Ashwood

Five Essential Books on Women in the Early Civil Rights Movement

By Keri Leigh Merritt

Beyond MLK: On the Women Who Made the March on Washington

By Marcia Chatelain