What We Can Give Each Other: On Octavia Butler’s “Speech Sounds”

What We Can Give Each Other: On Octavia Butler’s “Speech Sounds”

Aaron Boehmer Considers the Hope in Human Connection

By Aaron Boehmer | August 4, 2025

What Jane Austen’s Possessions Reveal About Her Literary Ethos

What Jane Austen’s Possessions Reveal About Her Literary Ethos

Kathryn Sutherland Explores the Iconic Author’s Life and Work Through the Most Seemingly Mundane Objects

By Kathryn Sutherland | August 4, 2025

A Happy One-Trick Multi-Book Pony: On Writing Novels About Art History

A Happy One-Trick Multi-Book Pony: On Writing Novels About Art History

B.A. Shapiro Follows Her Literary Footsteps Through Storied Museums

By B.A. Shapiro | August 4, 2025

How Witi Ihimaera’s <em>The Whale Rider</em> Helped Introduce Maori Literature to the World

How Witi Ihimaera’s The Whale Rider Helped Introduce Maori Literature to the World

Shilo Kino on the Novel That Represented and Reconnected New Zealand’s Indigenous People

By Shilo Kino | August 4, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“It’s the best vaccination against 1970s nostalgia I’ve ever received.”

By Book Marks | August 1, 2025

Robot Ghost Kitchens and Memory Capitalism: August’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Robot Ghost Kitchens and Memory Capitalism: August’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

New Summer Reads from Annalee Newitz, Louis Sachar, Charlie Jane Anders, and More

By Natalie Zutter | August 1, 2025

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Taco Knights, A Mexican Romeo and Juliet, Goats: Ten Children’s Books to Read in August

By Caroline Carlson | August 1, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Amy Silverberg Is Reading Now, and Next

By Diana Arterian | August 1, 2025

Unimprovable Penis-Forward Poems and More! Seven Poetry Books to Read This August

By Christopher Spaide | August 1, 2025

Audre Lorde! Elizabeth Strout! Oscar Wilde! 25 books out in paperback this August.

Audre Lorde! Elizabeth Strout! Oscar Wilde! 25 books out in paperback this August.

By Gabrielle Bellot | August 1, 2025

On Promising Young Women (and the Nameless Men Who Get in Their Way)

On Promising Young Women (and the Nameless Men Who Get in Their Way)

Meg Pillow Unpacks an Archetype and Tells Her Own Story

By Meg Pillow | July 31, 2025

<em>Vanity Fair</em>’s Dan Adler on Jeffrey Epstein and What Ghislaine Maxwell Knows

Vanity Fair’s Dan Adler on Jeffrey Epstein and What Ghislaine Maxwell Knows

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | July 31, 2025

July’s Best Reviewed Fiction

July’s Best Reviewed Fiction

Featuring Gary Shteyngart, Michael Clune, Ed Park, and More

By Dan Sheehan | July 31, 2025

July’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

July’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

Featuring Love at Sea, Amelia Earhart, the Roma, and More

By Book Marks | July 31, 2025

The Most Anticipated Audiobooks of August

The Most Anticipated Audiobooks of August

The Literature to Listen to This Month

By Audiofile Magazine | July 31, 2025

“If God Were Like Chekhov, I Would Be Consoled.” On the Privileges of Misery

“If God Were Like Chekhov, I Would Be Consoled.” On the Privileges of Misery

Philip Metres on the Eternal Brilliance of a Russian Master

By Philip Metres | July 30, 2025

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