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What Keeps Us Human: How My Palestinian Father Met My Jewish Mother

Hannah Lillith Assadi on Overcoming Impossible Barriers to Love
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On the Genius of Frances Burney, Jane Austen’s Most Important Literary Predecessor

Natasha Joukovsky Considers Ahead-of-Their-Time Novels Cecilia and Evelina
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Is This the Most Literary Video Game of All Time?

Josh Lambert on Meredith Gran’s Perfect Tides: Station to Station
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What Was Lost: A Queer Accounting of the NY Times Book Review, 2013-2022

Thirteen Essential Books by Trans and Queer Writers,
Reviewed by Trans and Queer Writers

Love Stories, Feminism, and Why Cemeteries Are Sexy

By Jessica Ferri

What Playing Basketball Taught Me About the Creative Process

By Ben Markovits

What Wayne Koestenbaum Learned From Gilligan’s Island (And Why He Will Never Finish Reading Marx’s Capital)

By Wayne Koestenbaum

“Eatonville, Florida.” A Poem by Joshua Bennett

By Joshua Bennett

Beyond “Women’s Fiction...” On the Quiet Brilliance of Barbara Pym

By Kerry Clare

Crying in the Multiverse: On the Potential of Possibility as a Literary Device

By Genevieve DeGuzman

Tales From Ground Zero of Europe’s Heroin Epidemic

By Jonathan Tepper

Understanding the Complex History of Anti-Asian Racism

By Scott Kurashige

Janine Kovac on Getting Into Writing Residencies and Book Festivals

By Memoir Nation

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Andrew Martin on How to Manage Exposition

By Andrew Martin

Swiping and Writing: On Hinge as Muse

By Katherine J. Chen

Am I the Asshole For Trying to Pitch Editors and Agents at Crowded AWP Parties?

By Kristen Arnett

What Night of the Living Dead Taught Me About Filmmaking—and Life

By Daniel Kraus

Benjamin Franklin Was One of Many Early Americans Who Spread Genocidal Propaganda About Indigenous Nations

By Paul C. Rosier

Johnette Napolitano on a Companion For Her Beloved Horse, True

By Cat Willett

Crime Reads

Crime Reads

March 17, 2026

The Best International Crime Novels of March 2026

By Molly Odintz

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

By CrimeReads

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

By CrimeReads

The Best Crime Novels, Mysteries, and Thrillers of March 2026

By Molly Odintz

Book Marks

Book Marks

The Best Reviewed Books of the Week

5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Aracelis Girmay on Reading Toni Morrison and Lucille Clifton

By Thresholds

“By a Trans Woman, About Trans Women, For Trans Readers.” On Imogen Binnie’s Nevada

By Denne Michele Norris

On the Origins of Genuine Intersectionality in Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s How We Get Free

By Alexis Clements

On the Origins of Genuine Intersectionality in Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s How We Get Free

By Alexis Clements

Murder At the Supreme Court: Who Really Killed Roe v. Wade?

By Amy Littlefield

Are Economists, in Fact, the Unacknowledged Poets of the World

By Ed Simon

Matters of the Spirit: A Pastor, a Noblewoman and a Mysterious Bout of Melancholy

By Christopher Clark

Are Economists, in Fact, the Unacknowledged Poets of the World

By Ed Simon

Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

By Brittany Allen