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Suddenly Old, Suddenly the Other: On the Unfamiliar World of Aging

Suddenly Old, Suddenly the Other: On the Unfamiliar World of Aging

Douglas J. Penick Considers Time, Transitions, and Classical Music

By Douglas J. Penick | April 3, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Szalay has written a novel about the Big Question: about the numbing strangeness of being alive.”

By Book Marks | April 3, 2025

Meghan O’Rourke on The End of the University

Meghan O’Rourke on The End of the University

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | April 3, 2025

American Literature’s White Whale: Why the “Great American Novel” is Still Worth Pursuing

American Literature’s White Whale: Why the “Great American Novel” is Still Worth Pursuing

Ed Simon on the Importance of Chasing an Elusive Literary Ideal in an Era of National Decline

By Ed Simon | April 2, 2025

Fighting for One’s Fiction: How Norman Mailer Taught Me to Defend My Plots

Fighting for One’s Fiction: How Norman Mailer Taught Me to Defend My Plots

Anthony Giardina Explores “Advertisements for Myself” and a Controversial Author’s Legacy

By Anthony Giardina | April 2, 2025

Rachel Kushner on How Clarice Lispector Disrupts Our Notions of Good and Bad

Rachel Kushner on How Clarice Lispector Disrupts Our Notions of Good and Bad

“Even as she does not mean to comfort, I feel her — here, still right here, to tell us how it really is.”

By Rachel Kushner | April 1, 2025

Best Reviewed
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Jeanne Thornton! Amy Gerstler! Videogame memoirs! 26 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 1, 2025

A Small Press Book We Love:
Missing Time by Ari Brostoff

By Brittany Allen | March 31, 2025

From the Nightmares of the Third Reich to Elon Musk: 10 Nonfiction Books to Read in April

By Literary Hub | March 31, 2025

Ten New Children’s Books That Reveal the Wondrous Act of Storytelling

Ten New Children’s Books That Reveal the Wondrous Act of Storytelling

Caroline Carlson Rounds Up Some Great Kids’ Books Out in April

By Caroline Carlson | March 31, 2025

Gatsby, Bluebeard, and the Roys Walk Into a TBR: April’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Gatsby, Bluebeard, and the Roys Walk Into a TBR: April’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

New Sagas and Standalones from Olivie Blake, Nghi Vo, Isaac Fellman, and More

By Natalie Zutter | March 31, 2025

Art, Liberty, Diverse Voices: Six Poets on Why University Presses Are Critical for Poetry

Art, Liberty, Diverse Voices: Six Poets on Why University Presses Are Critical for Poetry

Featuring Ariana Benson, Peter Gizzi, Romeo Oriogun, V. Penelope Pelizzon, Greg Rappleye, and Jess Smith

By Literary Hub | March 31, 2025

Unhappy National Poetry Month: Seven Poetry Books to Read This April

Unhappy National Poetry Month: Seven Poetry Books to Read This April

Christopher Spaide Recommends Esther Kondo Heller, Jack Saebyok Jung, Antonio Gamoneda and More

By Christopher Spaide | March 31, 2025

March’s Best Reviewed Fiction

March’s Best Reviewed Fiction

Featuring Karen Russell, Torrey Peters, Laila Lalami, and More

By Book Marks | March 30, 2025

March’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

March’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

Featuring Helen Garner, Graydon Carter, David Sheff, and More

By Book Marks | March 30, 2025

A Small Press Book We Love: </br><em>Point Zero</em> by Seichō Matsumoto

A Small Press Book We Love:
Point Zero by Seichō Matsumoto

By Molly Odintz | March 28, 2025

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