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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 Daniyal Mueenuddin, Jung Chang, Madeline Cash, and More

By Book Marks | January 16, 2026

On Lidia Yuknavitch’s “Anti-Memoir” <em>The Chronology of Water</em>

On Lidia Yuknavitch’s “Anti-Memoir” The Chronology of Water

Asha Dore Considers Stories in the Body, on the Page, and on Screen

By Asha Dore | January 16, 2026

Containment and Freedom: In Praise of the Boarding School Novel

Containment and Freedom: In Praise of the Boarding School Novel

Madeleine Dunnigan on the Joys of Channeling Teenage Angst In Her Fiction

By Madeleine Dunnigan | January 16, 2026

The All-Of-It-Ness of Motherhood: Five Books to Read in the Early Days of Parenting

The All-Of-It-Ness of Motherhood: Five Books to Read in the Early Days of Parenting

Catherine Pierce Recommends Rivka Galchen, Mira Jacob, Beth Ann Fennelly and More

By Catherine Pierce | January 16, 2026

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“A novel is a minor conspiracy unto itself, a frenzied assembly of story and figures and motivations.”

By Book Marks | January 15, 2026

Questions and Crimes: Golan Haji on Art and Letters in the New Syria

Questions and Crimes: Golan Haji on Art and Letters in the New Syria

Translated and Introduced by Fady Joudah

By Golan Haji | January 15, 2026

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Against Generative AI: Is Art the Last Refuge of Our Humanity?

By Nick Ripatrazone | January 15, 2026

Am I the Asshole For Having a Huge Crush on My Editor?

By Kristen Arnett | January 15, 2026

The Annotated Nightstand: What Daniyal Mueenuddin Is Reading Now, and Next

By Diana Arterian | January 15, 2026

Vauhini Vara and Karan Mahajan on When AI Tries to Sound Like Us

Vauhini Vara and Karan Mahajan on When AI Tries to Sound Like Us

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | January 15, 2026

Is Artistic Ego a Faustian Bargain? Karl Ove Knausgaard on Plot, Narcissism, and His New Novel

Is Artistic Ego a Faustian Bargain? Karl Ove Knausgaard on Plot, Narcissism, and His New Novel

Eric Olson Profiles the Author of The School of Night

By Eric Olson | January 14, 2026

A Reading List of Ersatz Mothers: Three Novels Featuring Powerful Aunts

A Reading List of Ersatz Mothers: Three Novels Featuring Powerful Aunts

Sara Levine Recommends Jane Austen, P.G. Wodehouse and Elena Ferrante

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Letters on Faith Between a Poet and a Theologian

Letters on Faith Between a Poet and a Theologian

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By Miroslav Volf and Christian Wiman | January 13, 2026

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Featuring Stefan Merrill Block, Nina McConigley, Ben Markovits and More

By Teddy Wayne | January 13, 2026

Madeline Cash on Writing an Absurdist Systems Novel

Madeline Cash on Writing an Absurdist Systems Novel

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of Lost Lambs

By Jane Ciabattari | January 13, 2026

Karl Ove Knausgaard, Niall Williams, Daniyal Mueenuddin, and more: 21 new books out today!

Karl Ove Knausgaard, Niall Williams, Daniyal Mueenuddin, and more: 21 new books out today!

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