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On the Life-and-Death Cycles at the Heart of Sylvia Plath’s Work

On the Life-and-Death Cycles at the Heart of Sylvia Plath’s Work

Kelly Marie Coyne Considers What’s Revealed By Plath’s Unpublished Poetry

By Kelly Marie Coyne | October 7, 2026

Leigh Bardugo on 50 Years of <em>Interview with the Vampire</em> and the Immortality of Anne Rice’s Lestat

Leigh Bardugo on 50 Years of Interview with the Vampire and the Immortality of Anne Rice’s Lestat

How does an author’s mythology enter the collective consciousness?

By Leigh Bardugo | October 7, 2026

What Would Mr. Darcy Earn Today? And Other Jane Austen-Related Money Matters

What Would Mr. Darcy Earn Today? And Other Jane Austen-Related Money Matters

Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey on the Value of Pounds, Crowns, Shillings and Pence in Today’s World

By Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey | October 6, 2026

Barbara Kingsolver, Lydia Millet, Patricia Lockwood, and more: 20 new books out today!

Barbara Kingsolver, Lydia Millet, Patricia Lockwood, and more: 20 new books out today!

By Julia Hass | October 6, 2026

How Feminist Activist Robin Morgan Helped Preserve the Legacy of Sylvia Plath

How Feminist Activist Robin Morgan Helped Preserve the Legacy of Sylvia Plath

Emily Van Duyne Remembers the Organizer and Writer

By Emily Van Duyne | October 5, 2026

Revisiting an Unsung 100-Year-Old Novel From an Intellectual New York Family

Revisiting an Unsung 100-Year-Old Novel From an Intellectual New York Family

On Reading Ettie Stettheimer’s Love Days

By Mabel Capability Taylor | October 5, 2026

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9 Novels About Being the Poorest Person in the Room

By Carla Vass | October 5, 2026

Rebranding Samantha: Reflections on the First “Grown Up” American Girl Book

By Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler and KC Hysmith | October 5, 2026

We Are the Medicine: Recommendations on the Ever Growing List of Latinx Literature

By Tomas Moniz | October 4, 2026

10 Great Nonfiction Titles to Enjoy in October

10 Great Nonfiction Titles to Enjoy in October

Featuring New Books by David Treuer, Wendy S. Walters, Thomas Frank, and More.

By Literary Hub | October 2, 2026

Revelations, Regret, Relief: Nine Books With Big Secrets

Revelations, Regret, Relief: Nine Books With Big Secrets

Julia Cohen Recommends Brandon Shimoda, Andrea Lawlor, and More

By Julia Cohen | October 2, 2026

Time Travel Romance and Haunted TV Channels: October’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy

Time Travel Romance and Haunted TV Channels: October’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy

Thrilling and Chilling Reads from Claire North, Audrey Niffenegger, Yoon Ha Lee, and More

By Natalie Zutter | October 1, 2026

Now and Then, Mothers and Daughters, Sonnets and Sequences: Seven Poetry Books to Read This Month

Now and Then, Mothers and Daughters, Sonnets and Sequences: Seven Poetry Books to Read This Month

Craig Morgan Teicher Recommends Samuel Amadon, Erin Belieu, Tina Chang, and More

By Craig Morgan Teicher | October 1, 2026

10 Great New Children’s Books Out in October 2026

10 Great New Children’s Books Out in October 2026

Caroline Carlson Shares What Your Kids Should Read This Month

By Caroline Carlson | October 1, 2026

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“His output more closely resembles that of an old studio film director’s than of a typical contemporary literary novelist.”

By Book Marks | October 1, 2026

James Richardson on <em>Within the Hour: Poems and Aphorisms, 1971-2026</em>

James Richardson on Within the Hour: Poems and Aphorisms, 1971-2026

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | October 1, 2026

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