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

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

Featuring Barbara Kingsolver, Sarah Perry, T. Geronimo Johnson, Nathaniel Philbrick, and More

By Book Marks | October 9, 2026

Queer Recognition, Estrangement, and the Great Grey Area in Between

Queer Recognition, Estrangement, and the Great Grey Area in Between

Demetris Papadimitropoulos Considers the Books Families We Keep and Families We Lose

By Demetris Papadimitropoulos | October 9, 2026

Jérôme Lindon, <em>Jérôme Lindon</em>: On the Relationship Between Jean Echenoz and His Publisher

Jérôme Lindon, Jérôme Lindon: On the Relationship Between Jean Echenoz and His Publisher

Mark Polizzotti Remembers His Encounters With the French Literary Establishment

By Mark Polizzotti | October 9, 2026

Alice Elliott Dark’s Afterword to “In the Gloaming”

Alice Elliott Dark’s Afterword to “In the Gloaming”

“The words were inside of me, and I was being called to compose a story.”

By Alice Elliott Dark | October 9, 2026

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Considering that both authors are innovators of highly consumable brain rot in different mediums, the book is an old-fashioned dud.”

By Book Marks | October 8, 2026

One Night in Frankfurt: Scenes From the Incomparable Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Translation Prize Dinner

One Night in Frankfurt: Scenes From the Incomparable Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Translation Prize Dinner

Morgan Entrekin on One of His Favorite Nights at the Frankfurt Book Fair; With Speeches From Jo Lendle and Stephan Kleiner

By Literary Hub | October 8, 2026

Best Reviewed
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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

By Literary Hub | October 8, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

By Literary Hub | October 8, 2026

T. Geronimo Johnson on Atlanta, White Supremacy, and The Occidental Book of the Dead

By Fiction Non Fiction | October 8, 2026

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

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

Kelly Marie Coyne Considers What’s Revealed By Plath’s Unpublished Poetry

By Kelly Marie Coyne | October 7, 2026

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

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?

By Leigh Bardugo | October 7, 2026

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

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

Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey on the Value of Pounds, Crowns, Shillings and Pence in Today’s World

By Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey | October 6, 2026

Barbara Kingsolver, Lydia Millet, Patricia Lockwood, and more: 20 new books out today!

Barbara Kingsolver, Lydia Millet, Patricia Lockwood, and more: 20 new books out today!

By Julia Hass | October 6, 2026

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

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

Emily Van Duyne Remembers the Organizer and Writer

By Emily Van Duyne | October 5, 2026

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

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

On Reading Ettie Stettheimer’s Love Days

By Mabel Capability Taylor | October 5, 2026

9 Novels About Being the Poorest Person in the Room

9 Novels About Being the Poorest Person in the Room

Carla Vass Recommends F. Scott Fitzgerald, Daphne du Maurier, Patricia Highsmith and More

By Carla Vass | October 5, 2026

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