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Lynn Steger Strong on the Importance of Imaginative Truth in Fiction and Nonfiction

Lynn Steger Strong on the Importance of Imaginative Truth in Fiction and Nonfiction

“The goal is not to tell the reader the facts as they happened, but to, hopefully, bring a bunch of sentences and paragraphs to imagistic life.”

By Lynn Steger Strong | April 7, 2025

A Close Reading of the Poetry of Val Kilmer

A Close Reading of the Poetry of Val Kilmer

Nick Ripatrazone Revisits the Work of a Wounded Heart

By Nick Ripatrazone | April 4, 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 David Szalay, Elaine Pagels, Joe Dunthorne, and More

By Book Marks | April 4, 2025

Exploring the Traumas of the Armenian Genocide

Exploring the Traumas of the Armenian Genocide

Nancy Kricorian on Memorializing Her Armenian Grandmother in a Novel

By Nancy Kricorian | April 4, 2025

Suddenly Old, Suddenly the Other: On the Unfamiliar World of Aging

Suddenly Old, Suddenly the Other: On the Unfamiliar World of Aging

Douglas J. Penick Considers Time, Transitions, and Classical Music

By Douglas J. Penick | April 3, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Szalay has written a novel about the Big Question: about the numbing strangeness of being alive.”

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Meghan O’Rourke on The End of the University

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American Literature’s White Whale: Why the “Great American Novel” is Still Worth Pursuing

By Ed Simon | April 2, 2025

Fighting for One’s Fiction: How Norman Mailer Taught Me to Defend My Plots

By Anthony Giardina | April 2, 2025

Rachel Kushner on How Clarice Lispector Disrupts Our Notions of Good and Bad

Rachel Kushner on How Clarice Lispector Disrupts Our Notions of Good and Bad

“Even as she does not mean to comfort, I feel her — here, still right here, to tell us how it really is.”

By Rachel Kushner | April 1, 2025

Jeanne Thornton! Amy Gerstler! Videogame memoirs! 26 new books out today.

Jeanne Thornton! Amy Gerstler! Videogame memoirs! 26 new books out today.

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A Small Press Book We Love: </br><em>Missing Time</em> by Ari Brostoff

A Small Press Book We Love:
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By Brittany Allen | March 31, 2025

From the Nightmares of the Third Reich to Elon Musk: 10 Nonfiction Books to Read in April

From the Nightmares of the Third Reich to Elon Musk: 10 Nonfiction Books to Read in April

Featuring Work by Faiz Siddiqui, Heather Christle, Ada Limón, and More

By Literary Hub | March 31, 2025

Ten New Children’s Books That Reveal the Wondrous Act of Storytelling

Ten New Children’s Books That Reveal the Wondrous Act of Storytelling

Caroline Carlson Rounds Up Some Great Kids’ Books Out in April

By Caroline Carlson | March 31, 2025

Gatsby, Bluebeard, and the Roys Walk Into a TBR: April’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Gatsby, Bluebeard, and the Roys Walk Into a TBR: April’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

New Sagas and Standalones from Olivie Blake, Nghi Vo, Isaac Fellman, and More

By Natalie Zutter | March 31, 2025

Art, Liberty, Diverse Voices: Six Poets on Why University Presses Are Critical for Poetry

Art, Liberty, Diverse Voices: Six Poets on Why University Presses Are Critical for Poetry

Featuring Ariana Benson, Peter Gizzi, Romeo Oriogun, V. Penelope Pelizzon, Greg Rappleye, and Jess Smith

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