Omar El Akkad! Ada Calhoun! Joni Mitchell! 26 new books out today.

Omar El Akkad! Ada Calhoun! Joni Mitchell! 26 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | February 25, 2025

Paul Lisicky on Joni Mitchell, Anti-Memoirs, and How Songwriting Influences His Nonfiction

Paul Lisicky on Joni Mitchell, Anti-Memoirs, and How Songwriting Influences His Nonfiction

The Author of “Song So Wild and Blue” in Conversation with Emma Copley Eisenberg

By Emma Copley Eisenberg | February 24, 2025

Just a Little Blip: A Conversation with Sheila Heti

Just a Little Blip: A Conversation with Sheila Heti

Fiona Warnick Talks to the Author of “Alphabetical Diaries” About AI, Writing for Children, and the Negotiation of Public and Private Selves

By Fiona Warnick | February 24, 2025

Elaine Equi on Blankness, Condensing Verse, and the Joy of Writing Short Poems

Elaine Equi on Blankness, Condensing Verse, and the Joy of Writing Short Poems

The Author of “Out of the Blank” in Conversation with Poets.org

By Literary Hub | February 24, 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 Lorne Michaels, Eric Puchner, Jane Austen, and More

By Book Marks | February 21, 2025

Eric Puchner: How to Be Funny When Writing a Novel

Eric Puchner: How to Be Funny When Writing a Novel

“When in doubt, leave the reaction out.”

By Eric Puchner | February 21, 2025

Best Reviewed
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  • The Rest of Our Lives
  • Call Me Ishmaelle
  • This Is Where the Serpent Lives
  • Lost Lambs
  • Winter: The Story of a Season
  • The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
  • Departure(s)
  • Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China
  • The Flower Bearers
  • Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood

Clinging to an Ardent Hope: Eli Zuzovsky on Film, Selfhood, and Being an Israeli Writer Today

By Eli Zuzovsky | February 21, 2025

WG Sebald’s Rings of Saturn Might Be the Perfect Climate Change Novel

By Madeleine Watts | February 20, 2025

Am I the Literary Asshole for Thinking All Book Covers Look the Same?

By Kristen Arnett | February 20, 2025

What to Read Before and After Seeing <em>Art Spiegelman: Disaster is my Muse</em>

What to Read Before and After Seeing Art Spiegelman: Disaster is my Muse

Readings on the Life, Works, and Legacy of Art Spiegelman

By Olivia Rutigliano | February 20, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The book’s effect is hypnotically telescopic, a vision of people we come to know across decades.”

By Book Marks | February 20, 2025

Nicholas Fandos on New York Politics, Eric Adams, and Trump

Nicholas Fandos on New York Politics, Eric Adams, and Trump

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | February 20, 2025

RaMell Ross on Adapting Colson Whitehead, Black Subjectivity, and the Epic Banal

RaMell Ross on Adapting Colson Whitehead, Black Subjectivity, and the Epic Banal

"The god of the camera is a colonizer but a cul-de-sac history of exploitation is held in black skin.”

By Brittany Allen | February 19, 2025

How Walking Shaped Simone and Hélène de Beauvoir's Art and Thought

How Walking Shaped Simone and Hélène de Beauvoir's Art and Thought

Annabel Abbs-Streets on the Idiosyncratic Way the Beauvoirs Hiked Through the World

By Annabel Abbs | February 19, 2025

Who Were the Women Novelists Who Really Inspired Jane Austen?

Who Were the Women Novelists Who Really Inspired Jane Austen?

Rebecca Romney on Unearthing a Legacy of Systematic Literary Erasure

By Rebecca Romney | February 19, 2025

How the Kremlin’s Truly Epic Adaptation of <em>War and Peace</em> Helped Me Write a Novel

How the Kremlin’s Truly Epic Adaptation of War and Peace Helped Me Write a Novel

Elyse Durham on Sergei Bondarchuk’s Seven-Hour Cinematic Classic

By Elyse Durham | February 19, 2025

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