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Meet the Best Debut Novelists of the Year

Meet the Best Debut Novelists of the Year

The Seven Finalists for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Dish on Their Reading and Writing Lives

By Literary Hub | October 24, 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 Gish Jen, Virginia Giuffre, Claire-Louise Bennett, and More

By Book Marks | October 24, 2025

When Telling Your Own Story Gets in the Way of Processing Trauma

When Telling Your Own Story Gets in the Way of Processing Trauma

Gabriel Urza on Making the Move From Criminal Justice to Creative Writing

By Gabriel Urza | October 24, 2025

Remembering Writer and <em>New Yorker</em> Mainstay Alison Rose

Remembering Writer and New Yorker Mainstay Alison Rose

Cynthia Zarin on Her Late Friend: “She was like an exclamation point in Garamond type...”

By Cynthia Zarin | October 24, 2025

Bestsellers to Blockbusters: Stephen King Reflects on the Adaptations of His Work

Bestsellers to Blockbusters: Stephen King Reflects on the Adaptations of His Work

“I see film and books as apples and oranges. Both are fruits, but the taste is remarkably different.”

By Stephen King | October 23, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The novel contains many such moments of almost febrile power, rendered in prose both gorgeous and a little unnerving.”

By Book Marks | October 23, 2025

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“You’ll See, a Lot Will Happen When I Die.” Remembering Gary Indiana

By Literary Hub | October 23, 2025

Ben Passmore on the History of Black Resistance

By Fiction Non Fiction | October 23, 2025

The Outsize Influence of Wales on Fantasy, Music, and Movies

By Anna Fiteni | October 22, 2025

Claire-Louise Bennett, Erin Somers, John Grisham, and more: 23 new books out today!

Claire-Louise Bennett, Erin Somers, John Grisham, and more: 23 new books out today!

By Julia Hass | October 21, 2025

Dear Bill: Letters From a Young John Updike to His Editor, William Maxwell

Dear Bill: Letters From a Young John Updike to His Editor, William Maxwell

“Elizabeth keeps falling down the steep stairs here. Send the checks. I need the money.”

By James Schiff | October 21, 2025

Adam Johnson on Writing a Novel of Ancient Polynesia

Adam Johnson on Writing a Novel of Ancient Polynesia

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “The Wayfinder”

By Jane Ciabattari | October 21, 2025

Five Classic Books Every Basketball Lover Should Read

Five Classic Books Every Basketball Lover Should Read

Yaron Weitzman Recommends David Halberstam, Jeff Pearlman, Jack McCallum, and More

By Yaron Weitzman | October 21, 2025

The Psychology of <em>Portnoy</em>: On the Making of Philip Roth’s Groundbreaking Novel

The Psychology of Portnoy: On the Making of Philip Roth’s Groundbreaking Novel

Steven J. Zipperstein Explores the Biographical Underpinnings of an Iconic Work of Jewish American Fiction

By Steven J. Zipperstein | October 20, 2025

How Black Labor Unions Impacted the Creation of the Stanzaic Blues Poem

How Black Labor Unions Impacted the Creation of the Stanzaic Blues Poem

Kristin Grogan on the Poetry of Langston Hughes and Sterling Brown

By Kristin Grogan | October 20, 2025

Is My Small Town the Center of the Universe?

Is My Small Town the Center of the Universe?

Robyn Ryle on the Consistent Delight of a Familiar Face

By Robyn Ryle | October 20, 2025

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