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The 12 Best Book Covers of June

The 12 Best Book Covers of June

For the Continuing Beautification of Your Isolation Bookshelf

By Emily Temple | June 30, 2020

<em>Normal People</em> is returning, set 40 years in the future, as <em>Normal Older People</em>.

Normal People is returning, set 40 years in the future, as Normal Older People.

By Emily Temple | June 25, 2020

21 Writers on Their Favorite Children's Books

21 Writers on Their Favorite Children's Books

For Readers, Writers, and Parents

By Emily Temple | June 25, 2020

Don DeLillo will publish his next novel, <em>The Silence</em>, in October.

Don DeLillo will publish his next novel, The Silence, in October.

By Emily Temple | June 24, 2020

Attention: Please stop microwaving your library books.

Attention: Please stop microwaving your library books.

By Emily Temple | June 23, 2020

For those <em>not</em> going back to work this week: here's how to make a pop-up book.

For those not going back to work this week: here's how to make a pop-up book.

By Emily Temple | June 23, 2020

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Things We Never Say
  • John of John
  • Ghost Stories: A Memoir
  • Look What You Made Me Do
  • Backtalker: An American Memoir
  • Glorious Country: How the Artist Frederic Church Brought the World to America and America to the World

10 Works of Literary Fiction
for Runners

By Emily Temple | June 23, 2020

James Baldwin on how writers need to change their language (and more than their language).

By Emily Temple | June 16, 2020

Kazuo Ishiguro's next novel, Klara and the Sun, is coming in March.

By Emily Temple | June 16, 2020

Emily Temple on Translating a Decade of Internet Writing into a Debut Novel

Emily Temple on Translating a Decade of Internet Writing into a Debut Novel

Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the List

By Emily Temple | June 16, 2020

The Ultimate Summer 2020 Reading List

The Ultimate Summer 2020 Reading List

In Which There Is Math and Counting

By Emily Temple | June 10, 2020

It's the perfect day to start reading Octavia Butler's <em>Kindred</em>.

It's the perfect day to start reading Octavia Butler's Kindred.

By Emily Temple | June 9, 2020

Indie bookstore Tattered Cover thinks speaking out is

Indie bookstore Tattered Cover thinks speaking out is "a slippery slope." Twitter does not agree.

By Emily Temple | June 8, 2020

The Latest Incarnation of Shirley Jackson on the Big Screen is Basically Fan Fiction

The Latest Incarnation of Shirley Jackson on the Big Screen is Basically Fan Fiction

And It's Great!

By Emily Temple | June 8, 2020

Listen to Ibram X. Kendi’s <em>Stamped from the Beginning</em> for free.

Listen to Ibram X. Kendi’s Stamped from the Beginning for free.

By Emily Temple | June 4, 2020

Watch President Obama's town hall on George Floyd and police violence here.

Watch President Obama's town hall on George Floyd and police violence here.

By Emily Temple | June 3, 2020

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