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Ocean Vuong: Photographer First, Writer Second?

Sarah Moroz on a Recent Exhibition of the Poet-Turned-Novelist Who’s Always Had a in Camera Hand
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Happiness is Within Reach! And Other Fragments of Ancient Greek Wisdom

James Romm Translates Classical Greek Poetry
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Who Are the Best Monsters in Literature?

Mothman Is My Boyfriend Author McKayla Coyle has Some Ideas
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Seven of the Greatest Farts in Western Literature

Elizabeth Zaleski Finds Famous Moments of Flatulence in Classic and Contemporary Works

What We Talk About When We Talk About the Weather

By Ella Frances Sanders

What Close Reading Can Reveal About an Author’s Intentions

By Suzanne Berne

Sciaparelli and Spark: On the Fashion of The Girls of Slender Means

By Lilian Pizzichini

When a 15-Year-Old Martin Luther King Jr. Confronted Jim Crow on a Train

By Lerone Martin

Argentina Through the Eyes of Polish Writer Witold Gombrowicz

By Mercedes Halfon

This Week in Literary History: Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway is Published.

By Literary Hub

Mysterious, Isolated and Seductive: The Map of Literary Islands That Inspired My Novel

By Christiana Spens

The Surprising Similarities Between the Kardashians and WWE

By MJ Corey

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

By Book Marks

Best Reviewed
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“The Data Shows We’re Never Truly Alone.” What Our Online Searches Say About Loss

By Simon Rogers

How My Mother Made Magic Happen

By Perdita Finn

Tom Junod on Finding the Right Trick

By Tom Junod

How the Fanatical Legion of Mary Secreted Young Girls Away to Toil in Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries

By Louise Brangan

Why Writing Stories For Children is So Much Harder Than Writing Stories For Adults

By Claire Swinarski

Am I the Literary Asshole For Thinking Most Writers Are Trash, Actually?

By Kristen Arnett

Crime Reads

Crime Reads

May 9, 2026

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

By CrimeReads

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

By Molly Odintz

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

By CrimeReads

State of the Crime Novel, Part 2: Issues and Recommendations

By Molly Odintz

Book Marks

Book Marks

The Best Reviewed Books of the Week

5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Han Kang’s Light and Thread is a Love Letter to Language

By Clara Hillis

10 Great New Children’s Books Out in May 2026

By Caroline Carlson

Lauren Groff: There is No Such Thing as Boredom, Only Noticing

By Lauren Groff

“Be the Change.” On the Misattributed Origins of a Popular Slogan

By Benoit Denizet-Lewis

John Cougar Mellencamp Will Fight You: On the Rock ‘n’ Roll Rise of a Combative Heartland Leftist

By Erin Osmon

What Erdoğan’s Rule Reveals About the Current State of Western Democracies

By Suzy Hansen

On Humanity’s Earliest Attempts
to Make a Home

By Stefan Al

Ten Great Nonfiction Titles to Read in May

By Literary Hub

What Erdoğan’s Rule Reveals About the Current State of Western Democracies

By Suzy Hansen