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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 New Titles by Rachel Khong, Erik Larson, Karen Valby, and More

By Book Marks | May 3, 2024

Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor on Solidarity, Change, and Our Interconnected World

Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor on Solidarity, Change, and Our Interconnected World

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 2, 2024

Finding a Home in Stories: 10 New Children’s Books to Read in May

Finding a Home in Stories: 10 New Children’s Books to Read in May

Caroline Carlson Recommends Matt Hunt, Julie Flett, Vera Brosgol, and More

By Caroline Carlson | May 2, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Kafka seems both genius and ingenue, and the contradiction brings him closer to us.”

By Book Marks | May 2, 2024

I Don’t Want to Talk to My Coworker About Their Stupid Writing: Am I the Literary Asshole?

I Don’t Want to Talk to My Coworker About Their Stupid Writing: Am I the Literary Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | May 2, 2024

Professors, Priests, Provosts, Manholes, and More: 7 Poetry Books to Read This May

Professors, Priests, Provosts, Manholes, and More: 7 Poetry Books to Read This May

Rebecca Morgan Frank Recommends Catherine Barnett, Jeremy Michael Clark, Ann Jäderlund, and More

By Rebecca Morgan Frank | May 2, 2024

Best Reviewed
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  • Mass Mothering
  • Autobiography of Cotton
  • Good People
  • Empire of Madness: Reimagining Western Mental Health Care for Everyone
  • The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet
  • Second Skin: Inside the Worlds of Fetish, Kink, and Deviant Desire

Boel Westin on Tove Jansson

By History of Literature | May 2, 2024

Paul Auster has died at age 77.

By Jonny Diamond | May 1, 2024

Zombies, Zmora, and Zo Much More: May’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

By Natalie Zutter | May 1, 2024

Lorrie Moore! Drew Gilpin Faust! Gay lit galore! 27 books out in paperback this May.

Lorrie Moore! Drew Gilpin Faust! Gay lit galore! 27 books out in paperback this May.

By Gabrielle Bellot | May 1, 2024

The Cosmic Library Reads Nathaniel Hawthorne's

The Cosmic Library Reads Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Wakefield"

This Week on The Cosmic Library with Adam Colman

By The Cosmic Library | May 1, 2024

Rachel Khong on the Power and Potential of Not Knowing

Rachel Khong on the Power and Potential of Not Knowing

Nicole Chung Talks to the Author of “Real Americans”

By Nicole Chung | April 30, 2024

Dorothy Chan! Erik Larson! Aimee Nezhukumatathil! 20 new books out today.

Dorothy Chan! Erik Larson! Aimee Nezhukumatathil! 20 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 30, 2024

An (Ongoing) Taxonomy of the Sad Rich Girls of Literature

An (Ongoing) Taxonomy of the Sad Rich Girls of Literature

Sanibel Lazar Proposes a System of Classification for Unhappy Endings Born of Blessed Circumstances

By Sanibel | April 29, 2024

AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of April

AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of April

The Month in Listening Literarily

By Audiofile Magazine | April 29, 2024

How Novelist Lynne Reid Banks Helped Me See Myself—and the World

How Novelist Lynne Reid Banks Helped Me See Myself—and the World

Aaron Hicklin: “I yearned for a bigger life and was sure it would come for me.”

By Aaron Hicklin | April 26, 2024

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