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The Annotated Nightstand: What Catherine Lacey is Reading Now and Next

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Rambling Genealogies: Nandshankar Mehta and the Forgotten History of South Asian Cosmopolitanism

Rambling Genealogies: Nandshankar Mehta and the Forgotten History of South Asian Cosmopolitanism

Radha Vatsal on the Contemporary Echoes of Her Ancestor’s Groundbreaking 19th-Century Novel

By Radha Vatsal | June 20, 2025

Hot, Moist, Hydrofeminist: Seven Sapphic Books with Themes of Water and Fludity

Hot, Moist, Hydrofeminist: Seven Sapphic Books with Themes of Water and Fludity

Siouxzi Connor Recommends Dylin Hardcastle, Julia Armfield, Sophie Mackintosh, and More

By Siouxzi Connor | June 20, 2025

Geoff Dyer on Homework and Play

Geoff Dyer on Homework and Play

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | June 20, 2025

Why Read: Seven Books About Our Passion and Need for Reading

Why Read: Seven Books About Our Passion and Need for Reading

Donna Seaman on the Books About Books You Need

By Donna Seaman | June 18, 2025

“I Feed on Queer Literature.” Michelle Tea on Her Ten Favorite Gay Books

“I Feed on Queer Literature.” Michelle Tea on Her Ten Favorite Gay Books

“Why are so many people afraid of questions?”

By Michelle Tea | June 18, 2025

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Why America Can’t Get Enough of The Wizard of Oz

By Hazel Gaynor | June 18, 2025

Less Matters More: Joanna Walsh on the Expansive Possibilities of the Short Story

By Joanna Walsh | June 18, 2025

Sigrid Nunez on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

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Nicholson Baker on the Unsung Pleasures of the World

Nicholson Baker on the Unsung Pleasures of the World

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds

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How to Teach a Controversial Novel of Racial and Sexual Violence in 2025

How to Teach a Controversial Novel of Racial and Sexual Violence in 2025

erin Khuê Ninh on the Reissue of Lois-Ann Yamanaka’s 1997 Novel “Blu’s Hanging”

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Leo Carey on What’s Not There

Leo Carey on What’s Not There

In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics

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Immaculate, Erotic and Quintessentially Modern: On Edna O’Brien’s <em>Night</em>

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Jane Alison In Praise of a Little-Known Novel From Ireland’s Foremost Chronicler of the Feminine Experience

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What Does It Mean To Be a Working Class Writer at Iowa Writers’ Workshop?

What Does It Mean To Be a Working Class Writer at Iowa Writers’ Workshop?

Lee Cole on the Absence of Working Class Perspectives in our Literary Institutions

By Lee Cole | June 17, 2025

Five Essential Books About Florida (If You’re a Canadian Writing a Novel About Orlando)

Five Essential Books About Florida (If You’re a Canadian Writing a Novel About Orlando)

Grace Flahive on Books That Convey “Palm Leaves Waving Lazily in a Hairdryer Wind”

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Toni Morrison! Joyce Carol Oates! Britney and Beyoncé! 27 new books out today.

Toni Morrison! Joyce Carol Oates! Britney and Beyoncé! 27 new books out today.

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