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Black Gatsby! Britney Spears! Geoff Dyer! Queer chaos! 25 new books out today.

Black Gatsby! Britney Spears! Geoff Dyer! Queer chaos! 25 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | June 10, 2025

Bad Curls, Bad Character: <br>The Charged Meaning of Hair in 19th-Century America

Bad Curls, Bad Character:
The Charged Meaning of Hair in 19th-Century America

Sarah Gold McBride on Race in the United States, Tresses as Culture, and the Field of “Whiskerology”

By Sarah Gold McBride | June 9, 2025

On Marianne Moore, Unexpected Celebrity Poet of Midcentury America

On Marianne Moore, Unexpected Celebrity Poet of Midcentury America

Susan Gubar Explores the Multifaceted Life and Work of America’s Foremost Female Poet of the 20th Century

By Susan Gubar | June 9, 2025

Beyond Teen Fiction: Six High School Novels for Adult Readers

Beyond Teen Fiction: Six High School Novels for Adult Readers

Miriam Gershow Recommends Zoe Heller, Emily St. James, Jim Shepherd and More

By Miriam Gershow | June 9, 2025

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 Susan Choi, Desi Arnaz, Melissa Febos, and More

By Book Marks | June 6, 2025

Skeletons in the Literary Closet: Five Novels That Dangle Family Secrets Before the Reader

Skeletons in the Literary Closet: Five Novels That Dangle Family Secrets Before the Reader

Susan Walter Recommends Celest Ng, Lisa Jewell, Taylor Jenkins Reid, and More

By Susan Walter | June 6, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

The World is Alive; or, How Robert Macfarlane Came to Trust His Senses

By Daegan Miller | June 5, 2025

There Are Too Many Books: What Happened to Publishing’s Summer Break?

By Maris Kreizman | June 5, 2025

Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? On Notes to John and the Selling of Didion’s Privacy

By Evelyn McDonnell | June 5, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Here’s a novel so pumped up and shredded it can’t possibly sit still on a shelf.”

By Book Marks | June 5, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Kate Briggs Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Kate Briggs Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Mónica de la Torre, Roy Claire Potter, Ella Frears, and Others

By Diana Arterian | June 5, 2025

Susan Choi on Korea

Susan Choi on Korea

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | June 5, 2025

Melissa Febos on the Unexpected Joys, Discoveries, and Sexiness of Celibacy

Melissa Febos on the Unexpected Joys, Discoveries, and Sexiness of Celibacy

The Author of “The Dry Season” in Conversation with Sarah Viren

By Sarah Viren | June 4, 2025

What Do Americans <em>Really</em> Want to Read? We (Might) Have the Answer

What Do Americans Really Want to Read? We (Might) Have the Answer

Tom Comitta Explores the Country’s Literary Imagination As Revealed Through Public Opinion Polls and Surveys

By Tom Comitta | June 4, 2025

Tongo Eisen-Martin on Ayi Kwei Armah’s <em>The Healers</em>

Tongo Eisen-Martin on Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Healers

In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | June 4, 2025

Lisa Ko on Destroying Her Diaries

Lisa Ko on Destroying Her Diaries

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds

By Thresholds | June 4, 2025

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