For Book Recommendations, People Are Always Better Than Algorithms

For Book Recommendations, People Are Always Better Than Algorithms

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By Maris Kreizman | March 28, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The novel runs on an engine that relentlessly converts suffering, usually of the inner-turmoil variety, into comedic relief.”

By Book Marks | March 28, 2024

The 22 Best Book Covers of March

The 22 Best Book Covers of March

The colors are coming out.

By Emily Temple | March 28, 2024

Romance Finely Aged: On the Unique Dynamic of Older Couples

Romance Finely Aged: On the Unique Dynamic of Older Couples

Carys Davies Considers Fictional Representations of Romance Among the Elderly

By Carys Davies | March 28, 2024

Sally Franson on Fashion and Literature

Sally Franson on Fashion and Literature

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | March 28, 2024

Earth, Head, and Heart: Six Deeply Researched Eco-Memoirs

Earth, Head, and Heart: Six Deeply Researched Eco-Memoirs

Greg Wrenn Recommends Florence Williams, Camile Dungy, Elizabeth Rush, and More

By Greg Wrenn | March 27, 2024

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Greek Tragedy in the Bottom of the Ninth: On Baseball’s High Literary Drama

By Keith O'Brien | March 27, 2024

Alexandra Tanner on Vulnerability, Making Money as a Writer, and Taking Literary Shortcuts

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The Annotated Nightstand: What Hanif Abdurraqib is Reading Now and Next

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Bob Blaisdell on Karl Ove Knausgaard

Bob Blaisdell on Karl Ove Knausgaard

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | March 27, 2024

Moira Donegan on Cultivating Invulnerability

Moira Donegan on Cultivating Invulnerability

In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics

By The Critic and Her Publics | March 26, 2024

Literary Rashomon: 10 Novels with Rotating Perspectives

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Shilpi Somaya Gowda Recommends Books by Barbara Kingsolver, Celeste Ng, Taylor Jenkins Reid, and More

By Shilpi Somaya Gowda | March 26, 2024

“No Nights (or Chapters) Off.” And Other Grown Up Lessons From Reading to My Kids

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Mark Cecil on What He’s Learned From the Toughest Audience There Is

By Mark Cecil | March 26, 2024

“But the Ancient Greeks Didn’t *Sound* Irish...” On Capturing Voice in Historical Fiction

“But the Ancient Greeks Didn’t *Sound* Irish...” On Capturing Voice in Historical Fiction

Ferdia Lennon Considers the Role of Speech and Dialect in Bringing the Distant Past to Life

By Ferdia Lennon | March 26, 2024

Paul Bunyan teaming up with John Henry! Hanif Abdurraqib on sports! 23 new books out today.

Paul Bunyan teaming up with John Henry! Hanif Abdurraqib on sports! 23 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | March 26, 2024

Lost in the Supermarket: On the Literature of Shopping

Lost in the Supermarket: On the Literature of Shopping

Anna Smaill Considers the In-Between Zone of the Fictional Shop

By Anna Smaill | March 25, 2024

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