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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

For the week ending June 14, 2026

By Literary Hub | June 18, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

For the week ending June 14, 2026

By Literary Hub | June 18, 2026

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 Isabel Waidner, Danielle Allen, Amitav Ghosh, and More

By Book Marks | June 18, 2026

My Newly Successful Friend Won’t Stop Namedropping: Is She the Literary Asshole?

My Newly Successful Friend Won’t Stop Namedropping: Is She the Literary Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | June 18, 2026

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Whether looming in dark gothic tales or permeating what might seem a sunny suburban world, dread stalks the fiction of Joyce Carol Oates.”

By Book Marks | June 18, 2026

The Losses that Carry Us: A Tribute to Marjane Satrapi

The Losses that Carry Us: A Tribute to Marjane Satrapi

Fatemeh Shams on Loss, Veil, Exile, and the Passing of a Literary Giant

By Fatemeh Shams | June 18, 2026

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Beyond Cli-Fi: Why Every Story is a Climate Change Story

By Heather Abel | June 18, 2026

Deb Olin Unferth on Our Apocalypse Now World

By Fiction Non Fiction | June 18, 2026

A Poem For Bad Dads: Annakeara Stinson on The Cremation of Sam McGee

By Annakeara Stinson | June 17, 2026

Karen Solie on Tomas Tranströmer's <em>Selected Poems</em>

Karen Solie on Tomas Tranströmer's Selected Poems

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

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | June 17, 2026

Amitav Ghosh, Joyce Carol Oates, Isabel Waidner, and more: 20 new books out today!

Amitav Ghosh, Joyce Carol Oates, Isabel Waidner, and more: 20 new books out today!

By Julia Hass | June 16, 2026

How the Rest of the World Sees America (Through the Eyes of Its Writers)

How the Rest of the World Sees America (Through the Eyes of Its Writers)

Madeleine Schwartz Recommends Bruna Dantas Lobato, Uwem Akpan, Maeve Brennan, and More

By Madeleine Schwartz | June 15, 2026

Undiscovered Country: The 100th Anniversary of Virgina Woolf’s “On Being Ill”

Undiscovered Country: The 100th Anniversary of Virgina Woolf’s “On Being Ill”

Darcey Steinke on Chronic Pain, Loneliness, and the Truth of Woolf’s Work

By Darcey Steinke | June 15, 2026

The Ultimate Summer 2026 Reading List

The Ultimate Summer 2026 Reading List

Even English Majors Can Add Without AI

By Emily Temple | June 15, 2026

Stacey Yu Recommends Books About Cats (and Their Owners)

Stacey Yu Recommends Books About Cats (and Their Owners)

Featuring Work by Mary Gaitskill, Colette, Marlen Haushofer and More

By Stacey Yu | June 15, 2026

What Ancient Writers Understood About Bees

What Ancient Writers Understood About Bees

Jared Marcel Pollen Considers the Roll of the Honeybee in Classical Literature

By Jared Marcel Pollen | June 12, 2026

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