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10 Great New Children’s Books Out in April 2026

10 Great New Children’s Books Out in April 2026

Caroline Carlson Shares What Your Kids Should Read This Spring

By Caroline Carlson | April 1, 2026

Diagnosing Murder: How Addiction Became a Central Motif in Crime Fiction

Diagnosing Murder: How Addiction Became a Central Motif in Crime Fiction

Theodore Martin Explores the Impact of the War on Drugs on American Literature

By Theodore Martin | April 1, 2026

International, Global, Universal Poetry Month: Seven Poetry Books to Read This April

International, Global, Universal Poetry Month: Seven Poetry Books to Read This April

Christopher Spaide Recommends New Work From Alex Averbuch, Joshua Bennett, Milo De Angelis and More

By Christopher Spaide | April 1, 2026

Dragon Lords and Reality TV Mechas: April’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Dragon Lords and Reality TV Mechas: April’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

New releases from Kritika H. Rao, Gwendolyn Kiste, Mike Chen, and more

By Natalie Zutter | April 1, 2026

Jenny Lawson Thinks It’s Okay If You’re Not For Everyone

Jenny Lawson Thinks It’s Okay If You’re Not For Everyone

The Author of How to Be Okay When Nothing is Okay on Rejection Sensitivity

By Jenny Lawson | March 31, 2026

Ashley Nelson Levy on Female Friendship, Disappointment, and Balancing Her Writing With Running a Press

Ashley Nelson Levy on Female Friendship, Disappointment, and Balancing Her Writing With Running a Press

The Author of The Riff Talks to Meara Sharma

By Meara Sharma | March 31, 2026

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Colm Tóibín on Crafting a Collection of Irish Homecoming

By Jane Ciabattari | March 31, 2026

A Resonant Silence: Heather Cleary on Translating María Ospina’s Only a Little While Here

By Heather Cleary | March 31, 2026

Tana French, Colm Tóibín, Yann Martel and more: 20 new books out today!

By Julia Hass | March 31, 2026

Álvaro Enrigue’s <em>Now I Surrender</em> Is a Celebration of Apache Resistance

Álvaro Enrigue’s Now I Surrender Is a Celebration of Apache Resistance

Anderson Tepper Profiles the Author of “Brainspinning” Historical Novels

By Anderson Tepper | March 30, 2026

Percival Everett, Andrea Long Chu, Gatsby... 23 new paperbacks out this April.

Percival Everett, Andrea Long Chu, Gatsby... 23 new paperbacks out this April.

By Gabrielle Bellot | March 30, 2026

19th-Century Blues: When Science Killed God and Made Some Englishmen Sad

19th-Century Blues: When Science Killed God and Made Some Englishmen Sad

Adrian McKinty on Richard Holmes’s The Boundless Deep

By Adrian McKinty | March 27, 2026

Langston Hughes: Novelist, Poet, Activist and... Translator

Langston Hughes: Novelist, Poet, Activist and... Translator

Ricardo Wilson II on the Writer’s Experience in Mexico and His Struggle to Bring Mexican and Cuban Writers to American Audiences

By Ricardo Wilson II | March 27, 2026

March’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

March’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

Featuring Christopher Clark, Ian Buruma, Tom Junod, and More

By Book Marks | March 27, 2026

March’s Best Reviewed Fiction

March’s Best Reviewed Fiction

Featuring Francis Spufford, Saba Sams, Jordy Rosenberg, and More

By Book Marks | March 27, 2026

How William Kennedy Turned a Bedtime Story For His Four-Year-Old Into a Publishing Sensation

How William Kennedy Turned a Bedtime Story For His Four-Year-Old Into a Publishing Sensation

Stephanie Gorton Talks to the Legendary Author of Ironweed About the Making of Charlie Malarkey and the Belly-Button Machine

By Stephanie Gorton | March 26, 2026

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