15 new books to get cozy with this week.

15 new books to get cozy with this week.

By Katie Yee | September 27, 2022

Generation Amazing!!! How We’re Draining Language of Its Power

Generation Amazing!!! How We’re Draining Language of Its Power

Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza on the “Maxim of Extravagance”

By Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza | September 27, 2022

Kamila Shamsie on Finding the Perfect Writing Space

Kamila Shamsie on Finding the Perfect Writing Space

“Perhaps there is no such thing as my writing space except wherever I happen to find myself.”

By Kamila Shamsie | September 27, 2022

On the Richness of Isaac Babel’s Odessa

On the Richness of Isaac Babel’s Odessa

Read Boris Dralyuk’s New Translation of “Lyubka the Cossack”

By Isaac Babel | September 27, 2022

What <em>Don Quixote</em> Reveals About an Empire At Its Peak

What Don Quixote Reveals About an Empire At Its Peak

Giles Tremlett on the Baroque Decadence of Spain’s Golden Age

By Giles Tremlett | September 27, 2022

Namwali Serpell on the Complex Processes That Create Fiction

Namwali Serpell on the Complex Processes That Create Fiction

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of The Furrows: An Elegy

By Jane Ciabattari | September 27, 2022

Best Reviewed
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  • Departure(s)
  • The Flower Bearers
  • Eating Ashes
  • Every One Still Here: Stories
  • Once There Was a Town: The Memory Books of a Lost Jewish World
  • The Typewriter and the Guillotine: An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve of WWII

Translating in Tandem: A Reading List of Collaborative Translated Literature

By Daniel Hahn and Lisa Dillman | September 27, 2022

Six Books That Explore Loss Through Poetic Means

By Juliet Patterson | September 27, 2022

Neither Villain Nor Victim: Stacey D’Erasmo on Embracing Discomfort in Telling the Story of a Complicit Woman

By Stacey D'Erasmo | September 26, 2022

Read Ted Berrigan’s Original Review of Frank O’Hara’s <em>Lunch Poems</em>

Read Ted Berrigan’s Original Review of Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems

“It’s a great book!”

By Ted Berrigan | September 26, 2022

Considering the Poetry of Molly Brodak and the Ache of the Unknowable World

Considering the Poetry of Molly Brodak and the Ache of the Unknowable World

Joseph Earp on Schizophrenia, Recovery, and Finding Connection When You Need It

By Joseph Earp | September 26, 2022

When Male Authors Write Male Violence

When Male Authors Write Male Violence

Philippa Snow on Ryu Murakami’s Novel Piercing

By Philippa Snow | September 26, 2022

Qian Julie Wang on Commuting, People-Watching, and Letting the Story Marinate

Qian Julie Wang on Commuting, People-Watching, and Letting the Story Marinate

“I delete and demolish with zeal.”

By Literary Hub | September 26, 2022

There Were British Spy Novels Before James Bond

There Were British Spy Novels Before James Bond

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | September 26, 2022

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 Elizabeth Strout, Yiyun Li, Antony Beevor, Richard Osman, and More

By Book Marks | September 23, 2022

Mario Vargas Llosa on <em>Retrospective</em>, a Novel of Never-Ending War That Resists Easy Answers

Mario Vargas Llosa on Retrospective, a Novel of Never-Ending War That Resists Easy Answers

“It is the job of readers whose sensitivity is awakened by what is imagined there to know how to respond.”

By Mario Vargas Llosa | September 23, 2022

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