What We Lose When We Don’t Archive Black Motherhood

What We Lose When We Don’t Archive Black Motherhood

Siraad Dirshe on Sasha Bonét's The Waterbearers and the Power of Witness

By Siraad Dirshe | November 13, 2026

Kaveh Akbar, Sally Rooney, and Political Paralysis in Contemporary Fiction

Kaveh Akbar, Sally Rooney, and Political Paralysis in Contemporary Fiction

Maya Abuali on the novels that grapple with what it means to be "politically conscious and essentially useless."

By Maya Abuali | November 13, 2026

An Ode to the Lost Generation: Adam Gopnik on <em>The Sun Also Rises</em> at 100

An Ode to the Lost Generation: Adam Gopnik on The Sun Also Rises at 100

"We reread [it] for streets and tastes and trout and wine bottles and for the unprettified truth of what war wounds are."

By Adam Gopnik | November 12, 2026

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"I propose that, far from being an outlier in DeLillo’s twentieth-century canon, the novel is central to his work."

By Book Marks | November 12, 2026

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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

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Daniel Miyares on How To Say Goodbye in Cuban

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Annie Proulx, Dustin Hoffman, Rachel Maddow, and more: 20 new books out today!

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Who Gets to Write About Ordinary Life?

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

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A Dystopia For Our Times: On Alan Moore’s <em>V for Vendetta</em>

A Dystopia For Our Times: On Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta

Ed Simon Explores the Graphic Novel's Cinematic and Political Afterlives

By Ed Simon | November 5, 2026

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"Reading it is like opening the hall closet and having the contents of an antique junk shop, laced with spiky and rusted farm implements, spill out and maim your dog."

By Book Marks | November 5, 2026

ZZ Packer and Nafkote Tamirat on France’s Ongoing Student Protests

ZZ Packer and Nafkote Tamirat on France’s Ongoing Student Protests

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | November 5, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

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Please Don't Put in the Novel That I Died: Olivia Manning’s (Lightly) Fictionalized Novels

Please Don't Put in the Novel That I Died: Olivia Manning’s (Lightly) Fictionalized Novels

Duncan Fyfe on the Author's Characters, and the Unhappy People Who Inspired Them

By Duncan Fyfe | November 4, 2026

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