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Garth Greenwell! Sally Rooney! Joe Sacco! 24 books out in paperback this September.

Garth Greenwell! Sally Rooney! Joe Sacco! 24 books out in paperback this September.

By Gabrielle Bellot | August 29, 2025

In Praise of CliffsNotes Study Guides in the Age of AI

In Praise of CliffsNotes Study Guides in the Age of AI

Joelle Renstrom Reconsiders What Teachers Used to Dismiss as a Shortcut

By Joelle Renstrom | August 28, 2025

Books Aren’t Magic Empathy Pills (But They Help)

Books Aren’t Magic Empathy Pills (But They Help)

Maris Kreizman on the Importance of Standing Up For Literature

By Maris Kreizman | August 28, 2025

Five Books With Narrators Learning to Live in Unexpected Lives

Five Books With Narrators Learning to Live in Unexpected Lives

Kelly Sundberg Recommends Titles to Read for Your New Life

By Kelly Sundberg | August 28, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Academia is a hellscape; ‘Katabasis’ just makes it literal.”

By Book Marks | August 28, 2025

Jennifer Szalai and Alexandra Jacobs on Great American Road Trip Books

Jennifer Szalai and Alexandra Jacobs on Great American Road Trip Books

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 28, 2025

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Hero Edit: On Literary Depictions of Reality TV

By Hannah Berman | August 27, 2025

Glory Edim on Jessie Redmon Fauset’s Remarkable—and Forgotten—Plum Bun

By Glory Edim | August 27, 2025

Shame and English Translation on The Critic and Her Publics

By The Critic and Her Publics | August 27, 2025

Rana Dasgupta on Giuseppe di Lampedusa's <em>The Leopard</em>

Rana Dasgupta on Giuseppe di Lampedusa's The Leopard

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

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | August 27, 2025

How to Think About the Future, With a Little Help From Science Fiction

How to Think About the Future, With a Little Help From Science Fiction

Nick Foster Explores the Relationship Between Sci-Fi and Our Conception of the Future

By Nick Foster | August 26, 2025

Writing Someone Else’s Autofiction... When They’re a Pop Star Turned Wedding Singer

Writing Someone Else’s Autofiction... When They’re a Pop Star Turned Wedding Singer

On the Unlikely Collaboration Between Novelist David Levithan and Musician Jens Lekman

By Katy Hershberger | August 26, 2025

On Bringing the Novels of Mizuki Tsujimura to English Readers

On Bringing the Novels of Mizuki Tsujimura to English Readers

Yuki Tejima: “For fifteen years, the novel has been passed from reader to reader in Japan.”

By Yuki Tejima | August 26, 2025

Richard Siken! Helen Oyeyemi! André Breton! 17 new books out today.

Richard Siken! Helen Oyeyemi! André Breton! 17 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | August 26, 2025

First Sentences and Translating Proust on <em>The Critic and Her Publics</em>

First Sentences and Translating Proust on The Critic and Her Publics

a week-long season on translation begins

By The Critic and Her Publics | August 25, 2025

Sheila Heti on the Profound Influence of Jane Bowles on Her Writing—and Life

Sheila Heti on the Profound Influence of Jane Bowles on Her Writing—and Life

What “Two Serious Ladies” Can Teach Writers About Struggle and Bravery

By Sheila Heti | August 25, 2025

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